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  • WATER SECURITY
    California’s Best New Source of Water? Reuse.

    While expensive solutions like new reservoirs and seawater desalination grab attention, California communities are quietly building up their capacity to clean stormwater and wastewater for reuse for irrigation, industry and, yes, drinking water too.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    How to Deal with Winter Droughts and Water Shortages

    Warmer winters and sparse rainfall have dried up southern Europe. Water scarcity in Italy, France and other countries is threatening this year’s harvests. What to do?

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  • WEATHER UNCERTAINTY
    Mitigating the Impact of Extreme Weather and Climate Uncertainty on Reservoirs

    Abrupt weather extremes, changing climate and frequent natural hazards such as floods and droughts create challenges for our nation’s aging reservoir systems. Researchers are working to help mitigate these problems.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    Climate Change-Driven Water Crises More Severe Than Previously Thought

    The interference of climate change with the planet’s water cycle is a well established fact. New analyses suggest that in many places, runoff responds more sensitively than previously assumed.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    There’s a Deal to Save the Colorado River — If California Doesn’t Blow It Up

    After months of tense negotiation, a half-dozen states have reached an agreement to drastically cut their water usage and stabilize the drought-stricken Colorado River — as long as California doesn’t blow up the deal. The plan would cut water use on the river by roughly a quarter, drying up farms and subdivisions across the Southwest.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River

    Diminished by climate change and overuse, the river can no longer provide the water states try to take from it.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    A Simmering Revolt Against Groundwater Cutbacks in California

    In 2014, California legislators, focused on groundwater’s accelerating decline during a prolonged drought, passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. New agencies find making sustainability plans is hard, but easier than persuading growers to accept them.

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  • DROUGHTS
    Flash Droughts Becoming Big Concern for Farmers, Water Utilities

    Many people are familiar with flash floods – torrents that develop quickly after heavy rainfall. But there’s also such a thing as a flash drought, and these sudden, extreme dry spells are becoming a big concern for farmers and water utilities.

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  • DROUGHTS
    Drought Encouraged Attila’s Huns to Attack the Roman Empire, Tree Rings Suggest

    Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    The Cold War Legacy Lurking in U.S. Groundwater

    In America’s rush to build the nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed. ProPublica has cataloged cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed to fuel the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    Maintaining Mountain Snowpacks Essential for Preserving Valuable Freshwater Resource

    Snowcapped mountains generate mountain water runoff and snowmelt, which flow down to streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Around a quarter of the world depends on these natural “water towers” to replenish downstream reservoirs and groundwater aquifers for urban water supplies, agricultural irrigation, and ecosystem support. Carbon mitigation strategies are needed to maintain snowpack throughout the Americas. 

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  • WATER SECURITY
    Managing Water Resources in a Low-to-No-Snow Future

    With mountain snowpacks shrinking in the western U.S., new Berkeley Lab study analyzes when a low-to-no-snow future might arrive and implications for water management.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    Texas’ Plan to Provide Water for a Growing Population Ignores Climate Change

    Texas’ biggest single solution to providing enough water for its soaring population in the coming decades is using more surface water, including about two dozen new large reservoirs. But climate change has made damming rivers a riskier bet.

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  • ARGUMENT: IRRESPONSIBLE ENVIRONMENTALISTS
    Removing One Dam after Another: Water in the West

    Many of the cities of the American southwest would not exist were it not for dams. Dams come with a cost, but removing them without offering alternatives is a folly, Edward Ring writes. If the proponents of dam removal would simultaneously support practical new infrastructure solutions, then rewilding America’s rivers could happen without impoverishing the farms and cities that depend on water,” Ring writes. “There is naïveté, and also nihilism, in fighting to remove the building blocks of civilization without facing the realities of energy and water economics.”

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  • WATER SECURITY
    Parched California prepares for first-ever Colorado River Cuts

    An emerging deal would cut water deliveries to Southern California — but fall far short of federal demands.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis

    The megadrought gripping the western states is only part of the problem. Alternative sources of water are also imperiled, and the nation’s food along with it.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    Water Plant Breaks Down in Mississippi’s Capital

    Jackson, the capital city of Mississippi, has been left without safe water to drink and for other uses after its long-neglected water treatment plant broke down Monday.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    Laredo Confronts Drought and Water Shortage with Minimal Options

    A mounting water supply crisis in scorching far-South Texas has left local governments pressed to respond. Two major cities, Brownsville and McAllen, rolled out watering restrictions in recent weeks, but leaders in the South Texas city of Laredo are reluctant to impose substantial restrictions on watering lawns even as water supplies near record lows.

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  • WATR SECURITY
    Pipe Dreams: Why Far-Fetched Western Water Projects Won’t Go Away

    There are at least half a dozen major Western water pipeline projects under consideration, ranging from ambitious to outlandish.most of these projects stand little chance of becoming reality — they’re ideas from a bygone era, one that has more in common with the world of Chinatown than the parched west of the present.

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  • WATER SECURITY
    A Water Strategy for the Parched West: Have Cities Pay Farmers to Install More Efficient Irrigation Systems

    Unsustainable water practices, drought and climate change are causing this crisis across the U.S. Southwest. To achieve a meaningful reduction in water use, states need to focus on the region’s biggest water user: agriculture.

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