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Food vs. Water: High Commodity Prices Complicate Aquifer Protection in Colorado’s San Luis Valley
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Decades of groundwater pumping have left one of the San Luis Valley aquifers in a perilous state. To restore its health — and the foundation of the local economy — valley leaders are developing a plan to pay farmers to fallow up to 16,000 hectares. But with commodity prices soaring, will anyone go for it, or will the state have to step in?
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The Stream, September 9: U.S. Temperature Records
Summer 2011 saw more warm temperature records tied or broken…
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Peter Gleick: 2010 Hottest Year on Record—The Graph That Should Be on the Front Page of Every Newspaper
Climate change is worsening, fast. The National Climate Data Center of the National Oceanic
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Infographic: Water Use Per Mile Driven — Biofuels vs. Fossil Fuels
A breakdown of gallons of water used by transportation fuels per mile.
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Bulk Water Company Plans to Export to India, East Asia and the Caribbean
‘Water has to come to the people,’ president of S2C Global tells Circle of Blue.
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Peter Gleick: Water and Misleading Advertising and Marketing–Where are the FDA and FTC?
It should be hard to sell private water. After all, most of the people reading this blog have access, a few feet away, to unlimited, remarkably cheap, high-quality tap water from systems owned by the public.
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Supreme Court Rejects Michigan’s Asian Carp Lawsuit
Michigan's Attorney General Mike Cox is “looking at other legal avenues” to pursue the carp battle.
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Freshwater Delivery in the Wake of Natural Disasters
A sample of water technologies invented to store, ship and provide one of the most critical resources for crisis recovery.