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Hydro Colonialism: Squeezing Africa Dry
July 6th, 2022
Via GRAIN, a report on how water is often behind the scramble for land in Africa: Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one in three people endure water scarcity and climate change will make things worse. Building on Africa’s highly sophisticated indigenous water management systems could help resolve this growing crisis, but these very systems […]
Read more »The Vanishing Rio Grande
June 25th, 2022
Via Yale e360, a report on the Rio Grande, which has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses, is now struggling with rising temperatures and an unprecedented drought: Hiking through the emerald green canopy of the bosque, or riverside cottonwood forest, near downtown Albuquerque, Tricia Snyder, an advocate for WildEarth Guardians, believes zero […]
Read more »As Colorado River Crisis Grows, An Urgent Call For Western states To ‘Act Now’
June 21st, 2022
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how – as the water crisis worsens on the Colorado River – an urgent call for Western states to ‘act now’ has been made: With the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs continuing to drop to new lows, the federal government has taken the unprecedented step of telling the seven […]
Read more »Saving The Colorado River
June 20th, 2022
Via the Salt Lake City Tribune, commentary on how to save the Colorado River: The 40 million of us who depend upon the Colorado River are using more water than the river can provide. We are relentlessly plundering the water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, to compensate for mounting water deficits. As these […]
Read more »The Southwest’s Unchecked Thirst for Colorado River Water Could Prove Devastating Upstream
June 20th, 2022
Via CNN, an article on how the Southwest’s unchecked thirst for Colorado River water could prove devastating upstream: Among those who love to chase trout with flies made of feathers, just the mention of a certain seven-mile stretch of Utah’s Green River can turn a hardened man rhapsodic. “I’ve guided in New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, […]
Read more »Drought’s Spillover Effect In U.S. West
June 17th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an article on how – in a region latticed with pipelines and canals – the consequences of dry conditions in one basin are exported to neighboring watersheds: The American West has been plumbed into a series of “mega-watersheds.” Because basins are connected by pipelines and canals, drought in one region […]
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