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In Era of Climate Change and Water Scarcity, Meeting National Energy Demand Confronts Major Impediments
The pursuit of energy development development reveal gaps in policymaking.
Water Scarcity Prompts Different Plans to Reckon With U.S. Energy Choke Point
Southeast could learn from Southwest
Q&A: How General Electric is Tackling the Water Crisis
Circle of Blue interviews General Electric Water’s Director of marketing Jeff Fulgham.
Major Nevada Pipeline Project in Limbo
Plans for a major freshwater pipeline for the Las Vegas Valley hit a legal roadblock.
A ruling from Nevada’s Supreme Court last week has threatened the fate of a massive pipeline project once hailed as critical to Las Vegas’ freshwater supply
Climate Change To Heighten International Tensions Over Freshwater Resources
Growing supply and demand gaps.
Heart of Dryness: Water Infrastructure and Climate Change
In the third installment of Climate Change Coping Strategies excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness we reveal the struggle to develop effective infrastructure in the face of climate change.
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Americans demonstrate concern for water issues, particularly for water pollution and the lack of safe drinking water.
How the West’s Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica David Hasemyer The San Diego Union-Tribune This story was co-published with the San Diego Union-Tribune and also appears in that newspaper’s Dec. 21, 2008 issue. The Colorado River, the life vein of the Southwestern United States, is in trouble. The river’s water is hoarded the moment it trickles out of the […]
U.S. Faces Era Of Water Scarcity
Profligate use hurts in unexpected places Quest for new supplies nationwide UPDATE: Please read our 2009 update on water problems in the US. Striking symbols of American engineering prowess, Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam stand in testimony to the U.S. spirit of growth and prosperity. But the 28.5 million acre feet Lake Mead is […]
A Driving Rain in Northern Michigan; Rings Around Southwest’s Deepening Drought
By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue Senior Editor (posted from Modeshift.org) The era of global climate change has produced such rainy and warm conditions in northern Michigan that a winter’s worth of snow and ice melted completely here over the last two days. Meanwhile it’s dry, desperately so, in several huge and significant regions of […]
The Stream, May 29, 2024: Faced With Drought and Disappearing Glaciers, Himalayan Village Copes with Relocation
Faced with drought and summer deluges, villagers in Nepal were forced to abandon their traditional homelands — an increasing trend in a region hit hard by water insecurity.
