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Water: The Other US-Mexico Border Crisis That Is Growing Worse
February 7th, 2025
Via The Conversation, a report on growing water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico: Immigration and border security will be the likely focus of U.S.-Mexico relations under the new Trump administration. But there also is a growing water crisis along the U.S.–Mexico border that affects tens of millions of people on both sides, and it can only […]
Read more »The American Dream (Water Not Included)
February 7th, 2025
Via The Lever, a look at how real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature: For most of human history, a simple axiom for survival seemed to prevail: Don’t build houses where there is too little water. Amid dangerous droughts, Arizona officials recently […]
Read more »At Phoenix’s Far Edge, a Housing Boom Grasps for Water
January 31st, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how more than 1 million people could pour into western Maricopa County, Arizona in the coming decades – if housing developers can secure the water: Buckeye, Arizona, has plans to become one of the Southwest’s largest cities in the next decades. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue Beneath […]
Read more »The Shrinking Caspian Sea: An Environmental and Geopolitical Emergency
January 22nd, 2025
Via The Diplomat, an article on allowing the Caspian Sea to succumb to industrial exploitation and climate-induced desiccation would be an irreversible tragedy: Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part of a merchant fleet carrying botanical […]
Read more »Stable On The Colorado River: When “Good” Is Not Good Enough
January 17th, 2025
Via JFleck at Inkstain, a report on the Colorado River: Stable isn’t good enough. Preliminary year-end Colorado River numbers are stark. Total basin-wide storage for the last two years has stabilized, oscillating between 30 and 27 maf (million acre-feet), where storage sits at the start of 2025[1]. That is lower than any sustained period since […]
Read more »What’s Next After Failed effort To Secure Colorado River Basin Water Rights for Arizona Tribes?
January 17th, 2025
Via the Colorado Sun, an article on how officials worked until the last second to try to pass a landmark water rights deal involving three tribes, the state of Arizona and dozens of other users in the Colorado River Basin. Now they are setting their sights on trying again with a new Congress. Advocates of […]
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