The Great Salt Lake is simply drying up due to the terrible management of water in the West and this is a very real environmental disaster in the making. Days before Utah lawmakers are set to convene, dozens of researchers are calling on them to...
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Arizona has finally realized that it cannot grow forever because it doesn't have water to do so. And this is going to be very, very interesting to watch. In one.
When I teach my environmental history courses, I tell my students that if they want to work for the rest of their lives, go get a degree in water law.
This sort of thing is going to get more and more common. For decades, the assumption among people who want to move to the Southwest is that the government won't let them run out of water. Never mind that the water is disappearing and that...
What a total mess in Arizona: Arizona’s water is running worryingly low. Amid the worst drought in more than a millennium, which has left communities across the state with barren.
In my recent podcast with Josiah Rector, we discussed the role of financial capital in undermining Michigan cities such as Detroit and Flint to the point that they were victims.
Most of the attention on water supplies in the Southwest as to do with the region's exploding population. Fair enough, and I'm not sure the fountains at the Bellagio are exactly a necessary use of scarce water in a desert. But the real water hog...
One of the many legacies of July 4 is the genocide against Native peoples that continues to the present. Many of the reservations don't even have basic sanitation in 2021..
As the Bundys and their merry band of fascists descend on the Klamath River to try and start another war with federal officials there, the reality is that the Klamath.
The Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California has long been one of the most controversial waterways in America. It's a situation where there isn't enough water to go around, where you have massive farms reliant on irrigation, tribes with treaty rights to the...
It's not just Flint where racism has led to a complete indifference by government toward water supplies. Keri Leigh Merritt on how this is playing out in Jackson. Over the.
If there's one thing the West really needs, it's the vultures of private equity messing up the water distribution system even more than they already are. But another controversial vision.