Three years ago John Leeper, then head of the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, told me about the importance of the deal that assigns long-neglected water rights along with the money to bring the water to arid eastern side of the reservation: “Real water to real people in real time.” Last week Roberto Rosales …
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It is said that Chinle, a Navajo community in northeastern Arizona, has one of the largest high school basketball gyms in the country. Basketball is very popular in Indian Country.
Here is an item I ran across this evening while reading old California newspapers. It appeared in the Daily Evening Bulletin of San Francisco,Tues. Feb. 15, 1876: Last week, at Jacinto, a Chinaman got his left arm broken between the wrist and elbow. He came to Chico for assistance and called upon the China butcher, …
“For certain specific purposes, and, primarily among them, for pumping water in moderate quantities, the windmill is not only a thoroughly reliable, but at the same time the most economical prime mover, and as far as judgment can now be passed, will hold this place for many years to come.” – Alfred R. Wolff, The …
In Southern California, the link between weather and water has been inextricably broken. Here’s Bettina Boxall on why L.A.’s driest year, ever, doesn’t matter all that much: Although this year’s No. 1 ranking makes for an interesting conversation piece, it has little practical effect. As anyone driving around Los Angeles can see, lawns are still …
Purple really brings out the fractal in this tree:
Reed Benson: [I]n places where there is no river-dependent species listed as threatened or endangered, environmental factors often carry little weight in water management. Without a listed species, water allocation and management often ignore the health of the river. And even where listed species do exist, focusing on the needs of a single species (as …
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When you sell less water, you make less money selling water. It’s the modern water agency dilemma: Albuquerque’s municipal water agency may need another rate increase to dig out of a growing financial hole left by the community’s water conservation success, agency officials acknowledged in a report this week to their board.