"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
From Aquadoc “Unless you consider the jumble of laws, policies, and procedures that deal with the various aspects of water use and control as policy or vision, the United States is operating without any such policy or vision. The Nation’s…
The water wars of California can get convoluted indeed. Last week, a judge reversed his own decision and ruled that increased water could be pumped from the Sacramento Delta to the Central Valley and L.A. for the following three weeks.…
A recent California Superior Court decision ruled that those who illegally divert water from streams and rivers can be sued because the consequent lack of water downstream, with its resultant problems, constitutes a violation of the public trust. Among other…
“Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over,” said Mark Twain, which is certainly true here in California and in the southwest in general. The problem, of course, is that much of our water comes from someplace else, like…
Worldchanging reviews James Lawrence Powell’s Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West. This is sobering stuff. The historical record shows that the American Southwest generally is drier than it is now. Currently, the…