Peter Gleick: Whose Water Is It? Water Rights in the Age of Scarcity
Who “owns” what water? Or, if water belongs to the public, who has the right to use it?
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California Drought: Snowpack Inspires Consumers, Worries Water Experts
One week after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state-wide drought emergency for California, rangers reported Sierra snowpack levels at 80 percent of normal. While the measurements of this major source of water might seem cause for relief, experts hesitate.
Rocky Mountain Oil Range: Is Water for Shale?
The West harbors beneath its jagged peaks three times more oil than Saudi Arabia. As oil companies pray for permission to tap, officials worry the Colorado River cannot provide water enough to win the oil earthward. The oil is currently embedded in shale. When the shale heats, out seeps kerogen — a substance that can […]
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 […]
Opinion: THE GREAT THIRST Oceans of Water
As the public becomes increasingly aware of the oceanic scope of the impending freshwater crisis, policy makers and scientists look for alternatives. Is desalination an answer? From the Los Angeles Times: It’s easy to understand why so many of us, hearing of threats from climate change and shrinking water supplies, turn our gaze west to […]
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 […]
Present U.S. Water Usage Unsustainable: An Interview With Dr. Peter Gleick
In an interview with Circle of Blue, the Pacific Institute’s Dr. Peter Gleick discusses water resource challenges the U.S. faces in the near future. As co-founder and president of one of the nation’s leading water think tanks, Gleick served as an academician at the International Water Academy in Oslo, Norway in 1999 and was named […]
Lake Mead, the American Southwest, and water: an interview with Tim Barnett
In an interview with Circle of Blue, Tim Barnett discuses the falling levels in Lake Mead and the potential impact it could have on the American Southwest. Reviewing the reservoir’s state and outlook, he highlights the potential economic, environmental, and social impacts of declining water levels. Barnett is a research marine geophysicist in the Climate […]
California farmers sell water instead of crops
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — Starting this summer, farmers in the Palo Verde Valley along the Colorado River will forgo planting crops on nearly 26,000 acres under a little-known fallowing agreement with Metropolitan Water District. In exchange, MWD will pay the farmers $16.8 million each year for 115,000 acre-feet of water — almost 37.5 billion gallons. […]
California farmers sell water instead of crops
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA — Starting this summer, farmers in the Palo Verde Valley along the Colorado River will forgo planting crops on nearly 26,000 acres under a little-known fallowing agreement with Metropolitan Water District. In exchange, MWD will pay the farmers $16.8 million each year for 115,000 acre-feet of water — almost 37.5 billion gallons. […]
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 […]
Federal Water Tap, June 24: Supreme Court Blocks State-Led Rio Grande Water Agreement
The Rundown The high court sides with the federal government in rejecting Rio Grande water deal between New Mexico and Texas. GAO audits an Interior program for economic development on former mining lands. State and federal agencies will assess water use in the lower Snake River, to inform the potential breaching of four dams. NOAA […]
