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• 16 million tons of uranium mill tailings moving away from Colorado River site

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 504
  From the Grand Junction Sentinel:“Crews have taken the first bites out of the old uranium mill-tailings pile in Moab, Utah, beginning a yearslong process of transferring it far from the Colorado River.Abut 630,000 tons will have been moved from Moab to the disposal cell near Crescent Junction by year’s end, said ...
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• State of water depends on the Colorado River

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 504
  From the Las Vegas Sun, this commentary by Pat Mulroy of the Southern Nevada Water Authority:“In the coming decade our primary water source, the Colorado River, will have more years with less water than years with more water. Still, I’m optimistic that Las Vegas will be ready for whatever nature throws our way.If ...
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• HCN Slideshow: Life along the Colorado River

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 504
  From High Country News:“The desert Southwest is unlikely to run out of water. But under the pressures of climate change and drought, population and politics, the Southwest is likely to run out of cheap water. The deal of the century will become last century’s deal.Last summer, inspired by an environmental policy ...
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• Life along the Colorado River

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 519
  Kasia Broussalian spent two sweltering months photographing the people who live along the Colorado River.
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• White Rim Trail Thanksgiving Adventure – Day 4

  
  My Toyota FJ Cruiser — Authority: 118
  Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4Sun, we finally have an early sunrise with Gooseberry camp being on the east side of Island in the sky. Today is our final day on White Rim with our destination being the Island in the Sky Ranger Station so we can close the loop.It turned out to [...]
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• What Exactly is a “Watershed” Any More

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 425
  John Wesley Powell famously argued in the 19th century that the West’s political jurisdictions should be shaped around watersheds, rather than the often arbitrary rectangles that had been used to establish our governmental geometry as the nation moved across the great plains. Azotea Tunnel beneath continental ...
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• Chance of Rain Reviews “Tree Rings’ Tale”

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 425
  Emily Green had some kind words for my book in the LA Times : Many texts about climate change begin with rapidly melting polar ice, but Fleck’s opens instead with the 19th century explorer John Wesley Powell and his navigation of the Colorado River. Ferociously wild in Powell’s time, the Colorado is tamed by ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The Great Unraveling

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 425
  Michael Gardner has a nice summary of what’s at stake in the litigation blocking the complex deal under which California agrees to throttle back its use of Colorado River water: Southern California’s water managers insist it should be easy to overcome the latest challenge to a landmark, seven-state pact to ...
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• Colorado River water pact in jeopardy: Ruling covering Salton Sea could unravel complex deals

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 504
  From the San Diego Union Tribune:“Southern California’s water managers insist it should be easy to overcome the latest challenge to a landmark, seven-state pact to share the Colorado River that also produced a vast new supply of water for the San Diego region.But nearly a century of litigation and political ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Odds of Extra Water for Mead Drop

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 425
  It remains too early to say a whole lot about what to expect in the 2009-2010 water year on the Colorado River, but the odds of extra water to buck up Lake Mead are dropping. Last month, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation put the chances at 50-50 that there would be enough water in Lake Powell to spill extra, above and ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Water planning after the age of infrastructure

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 504
  From Planetizen, an article on that begins with the early history of the Colorado River, and continues:” … As the Homestead Act was pushing farmers westward and checkerboarding the uninhabited territories, Powell compiled his experiences exploring the rivers and lands of the western U.S. into a report and ...
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• Colorado River Citizens Forum takes place in Valley

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 504
  From the Imperial Valley Press:“The International Boundary and Water Commission held its Colorado River Citizens Forum in El Centro on Monday to update the forum’s board on various projects in the Valley. The event took place in the Imperial Irrigation District’s Condit Auditorium on Broadway Street.Anna ...
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• Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: E-Mails Don’t Put Water in the Colorado River

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 425
  From this morning’s newspaper : Here in the Southwest, the question of whether we can trust climate science — not the few scientists involved in the e-mails, but the enterprise as a whole — matters a great deal because of what the science’s leading practitioners have been telling us in recent years. Tucked ...
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