I may be a westerner from west of the Cascades--the endlessly rainy corner of the region--but all of my family on both sides were from eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Idaho, so I always knew the dry side. Then I did my PhD at the...
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(GERMANY OUT) Agriculture in the Central Valley. This canal is part of the California Aqueduct, a system of canals, tunnels and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada.
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.
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 of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country, it’s a boom time — water-intensive microchip...
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.
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 wells, the state is depleting what remains of its precious groundwater. Much of it goes...
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.
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. When the clean water system failed at the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon this week,...
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.