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Central Texas Water Wars
June 28th, 2009
Via The Burnt Orange Report, an article on the evolving political water wars in central Texas. As the report notes: “…We’ve been expecting it for a long time, and now a Great Water War has come to Central Texas. The Lower Colorado River Authority has abandoned its water agreement with San Antonio, scrapped millions in […]
Read more »Southwest U.S.: A Thirsty Las Vegas Looks Northward
April 12th, 2009
Via Time, an interesting article on the further developing water conflicts in the southwest U.S., namely between a thirsty Las Vegas and communities to the north. As the article notes: “The valley below Nevada’s Snake mountains should not have much to fear from Las Vegas. Its dun-colored terrain daubed with the green of shrubs, meadow […]
Read more »Hands on The Tap: China, Israel, and U.S.
March 31st, 2009
Via The Nation, an interesting article positing further that the next resource wars will be fought, not over oil, but over water. As the article notes: “…Maude Barlow, senior advisor to the United Nations on water issues, wrote that the way in which we view water “will in large part determine whether our future is […]
Read more »“The West Will Run Dry”: U.S. To Tap Mexico?
January 20th, 2009
Via The Denver Post, an interesting article regarding recent moves between the U.S. and Mexico to ramp up discussions over efforts to enable downstream states to build desalting plants in Mexico that could provide water, albeit expensively, to both Mexico and the U.S. As the article notes, they are also launching talks for Mexico to […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest: The Last Straw for Desert Sprawl?
October 27th, 2008
From the always interesting Patagonia corporate blog, a story from Southwestern Utah, where the most recent example of water resource redirection is being played out. As the article notes: “…In the 1990s, St. George, Utah outpaced Las Vegas as the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the U.S.; it now sits just behind Greeley, Colorado. The Lake […]
Read more »Time For Northwest To Cash In Its Water?
August 30th, 2008
As recently discussed in The Oregonian, parched Southwest U.S. states recently considered ways they might bring more water to the overtaxed Colorado River, and they imagined snaking a fiberglass straw up the Pacific coast and sipping from the Columbia River. And, as the article notes: “…That’s probably a pipe dream, but it’s also a recurring […]
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