Global News
Sharing Mississippi water with California would help feed America
A recent edition of The Desert Sun had two letters objecting to piping water from the Mississippi River to the...
How Israel used innovation to beat its water crisis
Israel is a desert, and water resources are scarce, but today it produces 20% more water than it needs. What can the world learn from Israel’s experience?
Unprecedented solutions coming to the Lake Powell crisis
Water managers plan to implement temporary solutions to avoid critical levels at Lake Powell in 2022, while working on long-term solutions.
Warmer world equals wetter world: Climate change ‘supercharging’ water cycle, study finds
Temperatures continue to rise annually across the globe, and a warmer world means a wetter world, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Climate Central.
talk+water: Gregory Ellis
Texas+Water Editor-in-Chief Dr. Todd Votteler interviews Gregory Ellis, Attornery at GM Ellis Law Firm P.C., about Texas groundwater markets.
An “interstate water system” could fix the West’s water woes
California’s water woes are severe and worsening. A second dry year in a row has diminished the state’s water supply, and almost three-quarters of the state is in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought, the two highest categories. With the rainy season over and a hot, dry summer ahead, water shortages and brushfires are imminent.
Gulf Coast, Mississippi River cities eager for flood funding
Cities on the Louisiana coast and Mississippi River are hoping the infrastructure law will bring badly needed funding to fortify levees, locks and other flood protection as climate change makes hurricanes stronger and wetter
Arizona’s Future Water Shock
PHOENIX – On a Saturday morning in late January a chill wind kicks up dust on the high desert ridge north of Scottsdale where wood skeletons of new homes appear above the mesquite and cactus of the Rio Verde Foothills…
Tapped Out
by Allen Best – Front Range cities get up to 50 percent of their water from the Western Slope, but population growth and future droughts could limit transmountain diversions or stop them altogether under the 1922 Colorado River Compact
Ecological impacts of inter-basin water transfers
Local News
Is sending Mississippi water to the West feasible?
Two hundred miles north of New Orleans, in the heart of swampy Cajun country, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1963...
Irrigators have rightfully staked their claim to Earth Day, too
On April 22 the United States residents celebrated the latest version of Earth Day and it has a linkage to agriculture.
Every precious drop: Western Kansans devoted to saving water
Behind all the blowing dust and horizontal snow, much is happening in western Kansas to abate effects of declining groundwater.
FNB Dream Maker Podcast
Chris visits with Clay Scott, who farms in Stanton and Grant County, is a member of the Ground Water Management District #3 and is on the Kansas Aqueduct Coalition. We discuss the work the coalition has done on the feasibility of moving water to Western Kansas, Colorado and beyond.