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From drought to deluge: an ecological approach to California’s water crisis

December 15, 2020November 8, 2015 by Erik Ohlsen

While the media focuses on larger-scale challenges, small-scale, implementable solutions seem absent from the discussion. Small-scale solutions are beautiful because they often address both drought and flood problems. With one of the strongest El Niños on record developing in the Pacific, California may see a massive deluge this winter. It could be damaging if we don’t prepare now. On the heels of a multi-year drought, flash floods and the inundation of dry, crusty soils will be especially damaging.

EPA Study: Fracking Puts Drinking Water Supplies at Risk of Contamination

December 15, 2020June 5, 2015 by Sharon Kelly

The Environmental Protection Agency has released its long awaited draft assessment of the impacts that fracking has on the nation’s drinking water supplies.

A Thirst for Economic Change?

December 15, 2020May 12, 2015 by Erik Alm

Perhaps the catalyst could be a life-altering dearth of a critical resource that, until recently, most of us in the United States have taken for granted: water.

A Year Without the Colorado River, as Seen by Economists

December 15, 2020January 27, 2015 by Sandra Postel

Imagine if each tap that delivered water from the Colorado River – whether to a farm, a factory, or a home – suddenly went dry for a year. What would happen to the West’s economy?

A Watershed Moment for Los Angeles

December 15, 2020November 14, 2014 by Sandra Postel

The timing might seem odd, even self-destructive. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued an executive order calling for his southern California city to cut its water imports by half within a decade.

Our watershed moment

December 15, 2020July 29, 2014 by Alexis Rowell

We humans need water for life, we love it for leisure, we make art out of it; yet we also waste it, dirty it, privatise it, use it as a weapon and, most dangerously, stir it up brutally in the form of manmade climate change.

Fresh Water, Growth, Degrowth, and the Steady State Economy

December 15, 2020June 13, 2014 by Geoffrey Matthews

I believe one of the major reasons the concept of a steady state economy is not gaining traction is the omission of the role of fresh water in the production and maintenance of all its ecosystem and economic goods and services.

World’s Large Cities Move Water Equivalent to Ten Colorado Rivers to Meet their Annual Water Needs

December 15, 2020June 10, 2014 by Sandra Postel

A new study has estimated that collectively the world’s large cities, defined as those with at least 750,000 people, move 504 billion liters (133 billion gallons) of water a day a cumulative distance of some 27,000 kilometers.

For Our Children’s Earth… rebuilding the soil, sustaining the future.

December 15, 2020May 30, 2014 by Chris Rhodes

Without soil, and the overlying atmosphere, with its 20% oxygen content, life on the surface of the earth could not exist. Certainly there would be no humans.

A Sacred Reunion: The Colorado River Returns to the Sea

December 15, 2020May 29, 2014 by Sandra Postel

It is the first time in sixteen years that the Colorado River…will have reached its final, natural destination.

Wildfires in the Western U.S. Are on the Rise, Posing Threats to Drinking Water

December 15, 2020May 1, 2014 by Sandra Postel

For water managers, the new research is a clarion call to begin action now to safeguard water supplies originating in watersheds prone to fire.

Landscapes Transform With the Arrival of the Colorado River

December 15, 2020April 18, 2014 by Sandra Postel

The Colorado River returns to the delta – in photos.