Pumping up fear along the Colorado River
Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancé and…
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MoreWater can be wrung out too much
“But when Western cities grow, they look everywhere for more water, with little regard for the rivers they drain. “
Santa Fe River below Santa Fe Municipal Water Treatment Plant. Photograph courtesy of Allen Best.
MoreAn Idaho congressman aims to dump dams
Rep. Mike Simpson is a conservative Republican from Idaho whose concept of wildness in the 1990s was going into the…
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MoreWho Calls the Shots on the Colorado River?
Once you pay for fallowed fields, you’ll end up with landowners who are investors first, like Water Asset Management.
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MoreWhen Water Dries Up, It Can Be Deadly
“The dams that choke the Klamath River may be finally nearing removal”
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MoreA Move Toward Water Speculation
“Just talking about demand management has already attracted deep-pocketed investors..”
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MoreA Clear Warning About the Colorado River
For the West this summer, the news about water was grim. In some parts of California, it didn’t rain for…
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MoreIf the Water Goes, the Desert Moves in
“Without water, you’ve got nothing around here.”
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MoreTHE WORLD IS ALIVE
Climate change and the conversion of wild ecosystems, if unchecked, threaten to collapse the global bounty of “nature’s services.”
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MoreSECRETARY BABBITT’S PROPOSAL MAKES SENSE – WITH A FEW CAVEATS
The real obstacle to Babbitt’s proposal springs from our romanticized vision of what agriculture looks like in the West.
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MoreDON’T HURT FARMERS TO SAVE THE COLORADO
No one denies it: Over-consumption of water and extreme drought caused by climate change are realities driving the Colorado River…
MoreHere’s how to save the Colorado River
“By retiring less than 10 per cent of this irrigated acreage from production, we could eliminate the existing million acre-foot overdraft on the Colorado River..”
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