by admin | Sep 7, 2021 | Drought, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Every month the Bureau of Reclamation attempts to peer two years into the future of the Colorado River and its reservoirs. Reclamation’s 24-month study is a staple forecasting product for the federal agency that manages a chain of dams in the watershed, including...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Drought, News, Planning and Development, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage large enough to fit three standing adults and was lowered 600 feet through a black hole into the ground. There, at the bottom,...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Drought, Economics of Sound Planning, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, Planning and Development, Water Conservation, Water Resources
After a year of extreme weather, people in the drylands of northern California and the hurricane-drenched bayous of southern Louisiana are brooding on the same question: should we leave? New global research suggests that one of these “water shock” scenarios is more...
by admin | Aug 23, 2021 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Federal officials have declared a shortage in Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the country that serves tens of millions of residents in the West and northern Mexico, amid a historic decades long “megadrought” in the region. The Bureau of Reclamation...
by admin | Aug 23, 2021 | Drought, Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality
The well fixer and I were standing at the edge of an almond orchard in the exhausted middle of California. It was late July, and so many wells on the farms of Madera County were coming up dry that he was running out of parts to fix them. In this latest round of...
by admin | Aug 18, 2021 | Conservation Easements, County Authority, Drought, Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
The days for much of the water-thirsty grass in the drought-stricken Las Vegas Valley are numbered. Nearly one-third of all of the grass in Southern Nevada will need to be removed by the end of 2026 under a new bill signed into law by Gov. Steve Sisolak Friday, a...
