Low Water May Halt Hoover Dam’s Power
What happens if Lake Mead drops too low to generate electricity at Hoover Dam?
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Where Energy Development Puts Rivers at Risk
American Rivers’ annual tally of threatened rivers highlights effects of drilling for natural gas.
The Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates, Usage in 30 U.S. Cities
“For more than 20 years industry has been moving south looking for cheaper labor, I’m hoping that now they’ll start coming back looking for cheaper water.”
Colorado Developer Provides Customer List for Proposed Water Pipeline
Colorado’s potential water demand from a proposed water pipeline originating in Wyoming is 50 percent more than the amount proposed for delivery, according to documents submitted yesterday to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Africa News Southern Africa Water Wire IPS-hosted African News Feed Asian carp A list of eating instructions The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries posted a video and instructions on carp consumption. Asian Carp Management An official U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Web site designed to coordinate control and management of Asian carp in the […]
Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate, and Energy
The second installment Climate Change Coping Strategies of excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness
Peter Gleick: Temperance Flat Reservoir Falls Flat
Rigged feasibility study shows desperation for new surface reservoirs.
More Water for Fish, NOAA Declares
In an 800-page report, federal officials issued a dire prediction for California’s salmon — they’re just about out of water. The only solution: cut water usage in the Central Valley.
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 […]
Utah mining corporation indicted for water pollution
Discharging selenium into watersheds remains a major problem in the American West by Sarah Haughn Circle of Blue Mining mogul Johnson Matthey, Inc. is pleading guilty to allegations that it conspired to cover up illegally high levels of the toxic mineral selenium in the industrial run-off of its silver and gold refining plant in Utah. […]
Proposed rule will prevent wells from illegally draining Colorado River
Owners of wells in Arizona, California, and Nevada drain an estimated 5 billion gallons annually from the Colorado River. But, in a time when water for the desert is in high demand, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has proposed a rule that would require citizens who have drilled too closely to the river to have […]
Global warming to increase unpredictable weather, impacts on water, Cooley says in Congressional testimony
WASHINGTON – Congressional testimony July 10 said that global warming is likely to increase pressure on existing water resources and cause extreme events such as floods and droughts, as well as a rise in sea-levels. During the congressional committee hearing, Heather Cooley, senior research associate at the Pacific Institute, described what to expect and how […]
