"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The Sacramento Delta is ground zero for California water wars. California Gov. Jerry Brown will soon announce plans to build massive tunnels to siphon water away from the Delta and to Central Valley cropland and the ever-thirsty Southland. The tunnels…
UT San Diego sounds the alarm in a special report on the growing water crisis. Will anyone listen? Miles upstream from where the Colorado River once delivered Rocky Mountain snowmelt to the Gulf of California, a string of empty pipes…
The Yakima River in Washington, like the Colorado River and the Sacramento Delta, has been the focus of nasty, divisive water wars for years. But it now appears that a landmark agreement is within reach for the Yakima. This gives…
A crucial $11.1 billion California water bond measure has been postponed again by the legislature, a sad result of cynical election year maneuvering and pork barrel politics. The water bond was originally scheduled to be voted on in 2010 but…
The River Network in a new study Burning Our Rivers: The Water Footprint of Electricity documents how coal, natural gas, and nuclear use vastly more water than wind and photovoltaic solar, and that most of this water comes from rivers.…