First water in our new rain barrels
Two hundredths of an inch of rain this evening was enough to put the first water in our new rain barrels!
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The case for the Lake Powell announcement being no big deal
To be clear: I think the Bureau of Reclamation’s announcement today that it is curtailing releases from Lake Powell in 2014 is a big deal. But one of the members of my brain trust (journalism is a mashup – I just repackage the ideas of people much smarter than myself) points out that there’s an …
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Stuff I wrote elsewhere: Shortage on the Colorado
Via the Albuquerque Journal: BOULDER – With the Colorado River Basin gripped by extreme drought, federal water managers Friday announced historic water conservation measures. Supplies in New Mexico, one of seven states that depend on the river’s water, will be untouched by the moves. But experts said the move is a warning that demand is …
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Shortage on the Colorado River
The Bureau of Reclamation is going to tell us Friday that there’s not very much water in Lake Powell, and that as a result releases from Powell will be curtailed in the coming year, which sets off a cascading set of effects downstream. I took a crack at explaining this here, but Brett Walton has …
Latest conservation technology, the “water meter”, sweeps British Isles
From the Telegraph: Water companies across a third of the country will be required to consider fitting all properties in their areas with a water meter and billing customers for every drop they use. Under the order, approved this week by Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, some family water bills could double. It follows warnings …
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Before we abandon LA because of water shortages, we’ll do this
From Juliet McKenna, another example of the lengths to which southwestern municipalities will go to adapt to shrinking water supply: LA’s plan calls for building one of the country’s largest groundwater treatment systems at one of its largest Superfund sites. Groundwater in the San Fernando basin has elevated levels of chromium, perchlorate, nitrates, and trichloroethylene …
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stuff I’ll talk about elsewhere on the radio
I’ll be on the radio Saturday at 9 a.m. with Katie Stone on KUNM’s Children’s Hour (one of the great Albuquerque media institutions) explaining Albuquerque’s aquifer. Streaming live on line or on your mobile device.
Colorado Basin – the demand side problem
From Jay Lund, a comment on my post last week about low flows into that is worth elevating: Perhaps a bigger issue is that average unimpaired flow appears to be < 11 maf, but total allocations are more than 16 maf/year (1.5 maf/yr for Mexico and 7.5 maf each for the upper-basin and lower-basin states). …
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July rain: what a difference a month makes
I got what may be my all time favorite reader comment a couple of weeks back when I tried to explain that the summer rains New Mexico has been getting do not mean our drought is over: This article is miserablism at its absolute worst. How about looking at important progress in reservoirs like Conchas …
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