By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray
The New York Times
Global warming has focused concern on land and sky as soaring temperatures intensify hurricanes, droughts and wildfires. But another climate crisis is unfolding, underfoot and out of view.
Many of the aq...
By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray
The New York Times
Global warming has focused concern on land and sky as soaring temperatures intensify hurricanes, droughts and wildfires. But another climate crisis is unfolding, underfoot and out of view.
Many of the aq...
Legislators consider plan that would pay businesses, homeowners to install climate-friendly landscapes
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Facing a historic megadrought across the West with no end in sight, Colorado lawmakers, looking for easy and effective ways to conserve water, set their...
Re: “The Colorado River is sending us a message,” Aug. 29 commentary
Gary Wockner’s column on the Colorado River focuses on Lake Powell and how climate change necessitates a reassessment of how that reservoir should be managed.
Clearly some very difficult decisions need to be made in view ...
By Suman Naishadham
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » Included in the sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the Senate is funding for Western water projects that farmers, water providers and environmentalists say are badly needed across the parched region.
The Senate voted last wee...
By Lucas Bessire
Guest Commentary
It is no secret that the Great Plains is facing a groundwater crisis. This is particularly obvious in eastern Colorado and western Kansas, where much of the Ogallala aquifer is in steep and well-documented decline.
Aquifer depletion is an important part of the st...
By Matthew R Sanderson, Burke Griggs and Jacob A. Miller
The Conversation
Aslow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation’s crops. Underground, the region’s lifeblood — water — is disappearing, placing one of the world’s major food-producing regions at ris...
Extract from Char Miller, The Conversation
Perspectives, The Denver Post, August 12
The High Plains water bank is being drained, under 8 states this has been the largest underground source of fresh water. Its the most important source of water across the high plains region. At current withdr...