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Droughts and water scarcity in Texas, Colorado and Mississippi might be dominating the headlines, but some Northeast U.S. states are running into water-supply challenges of their own. The University of Connecticut, NPR reported, wanted to use water from a local river in its expansion plans, but some fear climate variability and distance from the river’s […]
The eighth Landsat satellite launches on Monday. It will measure water quality and quantity. Photo © NASA/VAFB Technicians load NASA’s Landsat satellite at a processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. On Monday, the eighth satellite in the Landsat series will be launched, to continue the space agency’s program of monitoring terrestrial water, […]
U.S. environmental regulators often consider water in mile-deep aquifers too deep for regular use, so they often grant permits allowing energy and mining companies to inject pollutants directly into the aquifers. Mexico City now plans to extract drinking water from a mile-deep aquifer of its own, ProPublica reported, challenging the premise of U.S. regulators’ pollution-permitting […]
The freshmen have been initiated, the committees settled and the staffs filled. Now comes the law making. Here’s the first batch of water-related bills in the 113th Congress: Harry Reid (D-Nevada) reintroduced the farm bill that the Senate passed in June 2012. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), the Senate Agriculture Committee chair, said that she would hold […]
Drought, water disputes, debates about energy development — “more of the same” is what to expect this year. Photo © Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue In the waning days of 2012, India’s state governments approved a plan for the federal government to tackle a new national water policy to regulate the use of […]
Temperatures nudged higher by climate change will increase evaporation levels from plants and soil in the American west, a new Columbia University study predicted. Higher evaporation rates, the Los Angeles Times reported, will dry out land and reduce water runoff into rivers and streams by about 10 percent in California, Nevada, Colorado River headwaters and […]
The increasing demand for water, food, and energy is one of four “megatrends” that will shape the next 15 to 20 years, according to a National Intelligence Council report that looks at the forces creating “tectonic shifts” in how the world works. Many countries will not be able to avoid food and water shortages without […]
Climate change and population growth will force the basin to add new supplies, harness demand, and change operational agreements, officials say. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue ‘A lot of people don’t have a realization of the energy it takes to move their water.’ -Doug Bennett, conservation manager of Southern Nevada Water […]
Shortages in water, food, and energy comprise one of four “megatrends” that U.S. government intelligence analysts said would cause radical economic and political changes in the next 18 years. The other trends, Bloomberg reported, include the United States’ fade from dominance, the rising power of individuals over the state, and a booming middle class. U.S. […]
Better data is needed too. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue The voluntary transfer of water from farms to cities and industry will be an important tool for ensuring that water can be put to its highest valued use in the U.S. West, but the transactions should happen in a way that does not harm […]
Sandy has brought new urgency to a water resources bill. Two weeks after talking at length about how to respond to the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, the Senate committee in charge of flood control and water resources returned to the topic yesterday, this time inviting Congressional colleagues to testify about the storm’s effects in […]
Water utilities prepare for bigger storms and rising seas. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers works to repair a levee breach caused by Hurricane Sandy in Montoloking, New Jersey. Brett Walton Circle of Blue In the nearly $US 80 billion wake of Superstorm Sandy, the second-most expensive […]
