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The Good News and Bad News of Declining Water Demand
By Sharlene Leurig, water financing expert with Ceres Water utilities across the United States are planning major infrastructure investments in the coming decades. How much? The Environmental...
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Act Now to Save U.S. Water Efficiency Standards
This afternoon I learned from the Alliance for Water Efficiency, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, that Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced a bill that would repeal the enormously...
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New Mexicans Call for Conservation over River Diversions
The Gila River in southwestern New Mexico is an ecological gem, but is threatened by a proposed diversion. Photo by Sandra Postel The western United States was settled with the help of big dams and...
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In Ireland, Water Will No Longer Be Free
A gurgling stream runs down Croagh Patrick, a mountain by the sea and an important site of pilgrimage in western Ireland’s County Mayo. Though water-rich, Ireland faces supply challenges and is...
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Chill Out on Ice Cubes to Save Water
Saving water is cool. No ice necessary. A town so cool it doesn’t need ice. Photo by Caroline Famiglietti California 2013-2014 drought. It’s epic. The worst in the state’s recorded...
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Short on Water? Don’t Blame it on the Rain
The Colorado River now dries up completely in the sands of its delta, breaking its fluid connection with the Gulf of California in Mexico. Can a river still be a river when the water is all gone?...
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Building a Resilient Water Portfolio
A collection of water strategies reduces risk. (Photo collage by Robert B. Sowby) By Robert B. Sowby People often ask me, “So what’s the answer to the world’s water problems?” and expect an easy,...
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Does Water Conservation Have To Be The Enemy Of Financial Stability?
Pricing is a powerful tool for shaping behavior, including water use. Recognizing the power of pricing, more water utilities are adopting water rates designed to encourage customers to conserve. These...
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A Short List of Effective Actions to Conserve Water at Home
Conserving at home can help keep water in your local river, reservoir or aquifer. Photo: S. Postel With droughts and water shortages slated to affect ever-larger portions of the United States, more and...
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Young Farmers in the Western U. S. Adapt to a Water-Scarce Future
Tending to a crucial beer-brewing ingredient in the hop yard at High Wire Hops in Paonia, Colorado. High Wire installed a drip system to irrigate the hops as efficiently as possible. Photo courtesy of...
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The Real Relationship Between Conservation and Rising Water Rates
By Mary Ann Dickinson A number of articles have been published recently which report on rising water rates across the U.S., pointing fingers firmly at dropping national water demand – and the efficient...
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Can Desalination Help Save a Holy River?
Roman bridge over the Jordan River, which forms the boundary between Israel and Jordan The Jordan River of the Middle East has supported a long succession of empires and other human settlements for...
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A Watershed Moment for Los Angeles
This vegetated depression, or swale, helps storm water infiltrate into the earth rather than running rapidly off sidewalks and streets. While helping prevent damaging floods, bioswales can recharge...
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A Think Tank for the Colorado River’s Future
Grand Canyon photo by Brian Richter Have you ever been in a work meeting or a classroom when you realize that you – and probably everyone else in the room – seemed to be talking at cross purposes...
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Let’s Change our Water Story
A view of the Potomac River from Great Falls. Photo: Willard Culver/National Geographic Creative Our human story has always been a water story. The earliest civilizations developed and grew along...
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The Silver Lining in the California Drought
Deep into the California drought, possibly the worst in 1200 years, water from a property in Los Angeles flows down a residential street. Photo: Sandra Postel Denial, it’s been said, is not just a...
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One Colorado Town’s Answer to a Catch-22 of Water Conservation
Inefficient lawn irrigation is a common occurrence, and a big water waster, in western U.S. cities. Photo: Sandra Postel A few years ago, the town of Westminster, Colorado, just north of Denver, came...
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A World Without Rivers
photo by Brian Richter I was looking at a river bed And the story it told of a river that flowed Made me sad to think it was dead (From the song “A Horse with No Name” by America) Some of my favorite...
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Farm Water Management Lessons from the Desert
MARICOPA, AZ — In this patchwork quilt of irrigated green farms tucked into a vast expanse of desert, cacti and mesquite, it seems improbable that water-loving vegetables could be sustainably produced...
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Wetland Revival: Using impact investment to restore nature
Conservation interests and agencies gathered along the Murray River in Australia earlier this month to witness the return of water to a wetland system that now rarely receives floodwater from the...
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