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America’s Winter Lettuce Hub Set to Bear Brunt of Water Cuts
December 10th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, a report on the agricultural impact of the 21% cut to Arizona’s Colorado River allocation: Arizona, which grows most of the lettuce eaten in the US each winter, will be losing about a fifth of the water it gets from the Colorado River as drought and climate change diminish the key water basin. […]
Read more »Officials Fear ‘Complete Doomsday Scenario’ for Drought-Stricken Colorado River
December 6th, 2022
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report that officials fear ‘complete doomsday scenario’ for drought-stricken Colorado River: The first sign of serious trouble for the drought-stricken American Southwest could be a whirlpool. It could happen if the surface of Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir along the Colorado River that’s already a quarter of its former size, […]
Read more »Time To Stop Blaming The Compact?
November 29th, 2022
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on the Colorado River Compact and the conclusion that the true reason we are experiencing a water shortage crisis in the Colorado River Basin is not because of flaws in the Compact, but rather because we have been unable to reduce our use of water commensurate with the reality that the river […]
Read more »‘Free Water’ Was Never Free, According To Historian of the American West
November 29th, 2022
Via The Revelator, commentary on how subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource. The West uses too much water. For such a simple problem, the obvious solution — use less — lies frustratingly out of reach. That inability to change may seem hard to understand, but […]
Read more »The Colorado River Compact Turns 100 Years Old. Is It Still Working?
November 29th, 2022
Via Inside Climate News, a look at the Colorado River company, an agreement that didn’t consider the needs of Native Americans, Mexico or ecosystems and which – since its signing – the river has dropped, demand has skyrocketed and states have failed to agree on how to share it. On a chilly fall day, Eric Kuhn […]
Read more »The Precarious State of The Mekong
November 25th, 2022
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at the Mekong River: The author Tucker Elliot wrote in “The Rainy Season” about the volatile nature of the Mekong: “No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years. It’s a paradox like civilization’s other great rivers […]
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