When an organization dedicated to the world’s water problems conducts a survey that concludes people care a lot about the world’s water problems, it’s good to accept the results with some caution. That caveat notwithstanding, the results of this survey are nevertheless not surprising: The survey, commissioned by Circle of Blue and conducted by Toronto …
When we talk about “water wars” in the United States, things like what is now happening in Atlanta, we’re not really talking about shooting wars. But there’s are widespread fears that globally, water wars will be one of the defining structures of 21st century conflict. Not so, suggests a new paper in the Journal of …
Albuquerque’s on the brink of New Mexico’s largest sewage reclamation project, taking 2,500 acre feet per year of water from the city’s wastewater treatment plant outflow and using it to water parks and golf courses. All well and good. Sounds like a great idea to put wasted water to use. But, as I tried to …
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Via NASA’s Earth Observatory, MODIS view of California’s central valley. The brown, blocky bits are areas where agricultural land, which would usually be growing this time of year, lies fallow. Click through to see it big:
If you’re interested in western (US) water, you almost certainly already read Emily Green. If you’re not, you must: “DOES anyone think Southern Nevada [Water Authority] is going to build a $15 billion pipeline and then let somebody turn it off?” — Snake Valley rancher Cecil Garland, pictured above center.
I was interviewing a local flood control engineer recently about the lovely little wetland that’s grown up in a retention pond up near my work. It’s located just off one of the channels that carries flood flows down through the city, and its primary purpose is to catch and hold water for a while to …
I don’t know if anyone else reads this stuff, or if we’re just talking to one another, but a quartet of the waterbloggers piled on a today on the Vegas (Nev.) water situation. The back story involves Southern Nevada water impresario Pat Mulroy, who wants to bring water across the state to feed her growing …
For you down-in-the-weeds water wonks, the Central Arizona Project is now posting its monthly delivery reports.
A couple of new papers out this week use a clever technique to quantify what looks like extraordinary groundwater mining going on in India. Groundwater pumping is a classic “tragedy of the commons.” In the long run, it’s best not to mine groundwater, to pump it in a modest and therefore sustainable fashion. But any …