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‘Fight for Our Lives’: Arizona’s Water Regime Limits Hopi Tribe’s Future
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a report on a 45-year legal saga that is leaving the Hopi Tribe fighting for their economic ambitions through water access: In September 2020, the Hopi Tribe’s four-decade effort to secure its right to water culminated in a court proceeding. The outcome would determine how much water the arid reservation would receive […]
Read more »How Arizona Squeezes Tribes for Water
July 30th, 2023
Courtesy of High Country News, a look at how Arizona goes to unusual lengths in water negotiations to extract restrictive concessions from tribes: The Dilkon Medical Center, a sprawling $128 million facility on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, was completed a year ago. With an emergency room, pharmacy and housing for more than 100 staff members, […]
Read more »The Colorado Provides Drinking Water to 40M People. Do They Know What Utah Does to It Upstream?
July 30th, 2023
Via Mother Jones, a report on the Colorado River and upstream use/energy-related pollution: From the water, the White River canyon was a scene worthy of Ansel Adams. Swallows darted in and out of mud houses packed on the underside of the soaring sandstone cliffs. A lone elk wandered the hillside, while sheep noshed along the water, […]
Read more »How Private Interests Benefit From Tribal Water Settlements
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a look at how – when power players like mining and agriculture are involved – tribal nations, usually the senior-most water-rights holders, often must fight obstruction: First, the Santa Cruz River stopped flowing into the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Then wells began to dry up across the reservation, […]
Read more »Vietnam’s Mekong Delta Is Sinking, But Innovations Offer Hope
July 28th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at the threatened Mekong Delta: A ribbon of water runs alongside Ho Van Hong’s star-apple and durian trees, just wide enough for the farmer’s blue canoe to glide by. He scoops from the channel to water his orchard in the heart of the Mekong Delta. The grove has been […]
Read more »Colorado River Has Lost 10 Trillion Gallons of Water Since 2000
July 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Guardian, a look at how the Colorado River has lost 10tn gallons of water since 2000 due to the climate crisis, a volume of water lost equal to Lake Mead, US’s largest reservoir, or enough water to fill around 15bn Olympic-sized pools: The climate crisis has caused the ailing Colorado River basin, a system […]
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