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The Colorado River – Overused and Shrinking – A Crisis Transforming U.S. Southwest
January 27th, 2023
Via the Los Angeles Times, a report on how the Colorado River’s overuse is a crisis transforming the Southwest: The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Like arteries, its major tributaries take shape across Colorado, Wyoming, […]
Read more »Import Water To New Mexico?
January 26th, 2023
Via the Albuquerque Journal, commentary on the many challenges to the idea of interbasin transfer in the United States: Two recent op-ed pieces have proposed that the solution to future water challenges involve interbasin transfer of water from the Mississippi River basin (Sunday Journal, Sept. 18, 2022) to New Mexico or, far more ambitiously, pump […]
Read more »Mississippi River: 24/7 Drought-Driven Dredging No Longer Needed
January 25th, 2023
Via Business Insider, an article on how the 24/7 dredging of the Mississippi River that has been ongoing since summer 2022 may finally be coming to an end: The US Army Corps of Engineers has been dredging the Mississippi River 24/7 since July. Drought along the Mississippi has dropped water levels to lows that haven’t been seen in […]
Read more »Water Wars: The Geopolitics of Resource Conflict in the Middle East
January 24th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Monitor, commentary on the geopolitics of water scarcity in the Middle East: Across the Euphrates lies one of the most precious commodities, not a dark viscous liquid that we formally refer to as Petroleum or a shimmering precious metal such as gold, but rather a translucent substance that is imperative to our lives, […]
Read more »What Will ‘Weather Whiplash’ Mean for California?
January 21st, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, insightful commentary on California’s water crisis and challenges ahead: California is built upon the great gamble of irrigation. Left alone, much of the land in the Western United States would be inhospitable to teeming cities. But we’re Americans — we couldn’t let the desert stand in our way. More […]
Read more »Arizona: Developers Don’t Have Enough Groundwater To Build
January 19th, 2023
Via CNBC, an article on Arizonan developer who don’t have enough groundwater to build in the desert west of Phoenix: Developers planning to build homes in the desert west of Phoenix don’t have enough groundwater supplies to move forward with their plans, a state modeling report found. Plans to construct homes for people located west of […]
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