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• Save the Colorado

  
  Moldy Chum — Authority: 471
  The Windy Gap Project, a proposed water project that threatens to reduce the Colorado River’s flows to less than 20% of its historic levels, is just one of a myriad of problems facing the Colorado River. This Thursday TU is hosting a rally in downtown Denver on the corner of 16th street and Wynkoop to show ...
  1 week ago

• Arizona’s cost of moving water could be about to go up

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 457
  The coal-Central Arizona Project link always seemed a bit of a Rube Goldberg policy apparatus to me. Its Goldbergness seems about to unravel. Felicia Fonseca at the AP reports today on the potential costs of a retrofit to the Navajo Generating Station, up the hill from Glen Canyon Dam. The plant is part of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nuestro Rio: Latino campaign to save Colorado River opens new front

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 137
  From Fox News Latino: “It formed last year to raise awareness of the drought-stricken Colorado River, which snakes its way across seven states and parts of Mexico and is flanked by the soaring walls of the Grand Canyon. Now Nuestro Rio, a network of Latinos working to raise awareness about the endangered Colorado ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lower Colorado River Tour, March 14-16 – Register today!

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 137
  From the Water Education Foundation: “The Colorado River is a lifeline to 35 million people in the Southwest, but in the Lower Basin, virtually every drop of the river is allocated. Yet demand is growing. As the drought moves into another year, California, Arizona and Nevada continue to work together to find ways to ...
  2 weeks ago

• A busy 2012 on tap for Boulder, Broomfield counties

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  If the oft-disputed notion that the world will come to an apocalyptic end on Dec. 21 comes true, this story will stand as the Camera’s last annual preview for Boulder and Broomfield counties. so grab a warm mug, curl up with your paper, laptop or iPad and enjoy a look ahead at the next 355 days of 2012 before ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vegas housing woes

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 457
  A couple of notes from Las Vegas, NV, the front line of the housing collapse, that have significant implications for the region’s long term water future: New home sales in 2011 were one tenth the number at the peak of the housing boom in 2005 . The Las Vegas Review Journal quoted Pat Mulroy the other day as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inkstain Blog’s River Beat: A forecast for decline on the Colorado again this year

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 137
  From the Inkstain Blog: “It’s all fun and games until you actually have to measure snow. The US Bureau of Reclamation’s first 2012 Colorado Basin reservoir forecast (the “24-month study”, pdf) projects a decline in total storage in lakes Mead and Powell, the Colorado River’s largest storage reservoirs, of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Camp & Kayak the Colorado River Easter Weekend

  
  Tango Diva Travel Blog — Authority: 107
  KAYAKING & CAMPING: Black Canyon/Colorado River Kayak the Colorado River from Hoover Dam to Willow Beach. Trip includes Camping, Hot Springs, Sauna Cave, & Emerald Cave (pictured). – Easter Weekend – $100 per person This is a Meet-Up event – you first join Meet-up and then add this group (LA ...
  2 weeks ago

• River Beat: a forecast for decline on the Colorado again this year

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 457
  It’s all fun and games until you actually have to measure snow. The US Bureau of Reclamation’s first 2012 Colorado Basin reservoir forecast (the “24-month study”, pdf ) projects a decline in total storage in lakes Mead and Powell, the Colorado River’s largest storage reservoirs, of 844,000 acre feet, or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adding up the water deficit: Even Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir in the U.S., will eventually run dry if its outgo consistently exceeds income, says commentary

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 137
  From the Los Angeles Times, this commentary by William deBuys, author of the newly released “A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest”: “Southern Californians are used to turning on the tap, or the sprinklers, and getting the water they want. Their ability to do so depends, in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grand Canyon | Arizona | USA | North America

  
  100 Places to Visit Before You Die — Authority: 117
  Visiting Grand Canyon Our Top Links BA Flights to Flights to Las Vegas America’s Golden West – Travelsphere San Diego, Grand Canyon & Vegas - 8 Days G Adventures Travel vaccinations FREE Travel needs assessment Grand Canyon National Park travel guidebook Lonely Planet ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amid uncertainty, IID bumps up fallowing $’s

  
  jfleck at inkstain — Authority: 457
  While archaeological metaphor can be instructive , I think we make more progress in understanding the fate of the Southwest under conditions of aridity and water scarcity by looking at what’s happening now, in the places that are really running short of water. What are people actually doing today? Which is why the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moab Utah, One of the Most Beautiful Places in the United States

  
  Tourism Info — Authority: 95
  If you’re looking for an adventure travel destination in one of the most beautiful places in the United States, Moab Utah is the right choice. This place offers a adventurous journey through some beautiful areas, ranging with river trips, hiking, climbing, Mountain biking, adventure rafting, jeep tours 4×4 use, or ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Stream, January 12: Water as Business Risk

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 415
  Next to power shortages, water scarcity will be the next big growth barrier for India’s economy , according to a recent survey by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Sixty percent of respondents said that water availability is already impacting their businesses, especially power ...
  3 weeks ago

• Inkstain blog: Dust and North American megadrought

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 137
  From the Inkstain Blog: “The Lamont-Doherty group that has done so much to help our understanding of the factors that drive multi-decadal droughts has added a nice piece to our understanding of the issues. In a paper in review (for which they’ve done a nice accessible writeup), Ben Cook and colleagues looked at a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Water forecasts for the Colorado River system are way down this year

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 474
  The prediction is for a drop of 2.6 million acre feet . The largest single water user on the Colorado River, the Imperial Irrigation District in southeast California, diverted 2.9 million acre feet from the river at Imperial Dam in 2011. Arizona’s entire consumptive use was 2.7 million acre feet. Astonishing, ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.S. Administration Bans Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 415
  The decision by the U.S. Department of the Interior was applauded by environmental groups for protecting the Colorado River watershed and criticized by industry organizations for hurting jobs and energy security. On Monday, the U.S. Department of the Interior banned any new uranium and other hardrock mining claims ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grand Canyon Ban on Mining Finalized

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 624
  Yesterday, the Obama administration announced a new 20-year ban on mining on federal lands near Grand Canyon National Park . Official say the Grand Canyon ban would allow current mining already in progress to continue. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement after a 1-million-acre area had been ...
  3 weeks ago

• Secretary Salazar announces decision to withdraw public lands near Grand Canyon from new mining claims

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 137
  From the U.S. Department of the Interior: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced his decision to protect the iconic Grand Canyon and its vital watershed from the potential adverse effects of additional uranium and other hardrock mining on over 1 million acres of federal land for the next 20 years. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Snow drought forces Colorado to face frightening new climate-change reality

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 137
  From the Colorado Independent: “Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. “We have had some very unusual weather so far this season,” Vail ...
  3 weeks ago

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