An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis
How climate change and human activity are driving violence between farming and pastoralist communities.
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Water Security
Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used. Access to clean water is a start.
Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used. Access to clean water is a start. December 7, 2021 By Michael Elizabeth Sakas Ignacio residents, Marcella Gomez and Bernard Candelaria fill up thier water tanks at the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s water distribution center south of Ignacio,
As West withers corporations consolidate land and water rights
With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
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Utah’s water dilemma
Record-breaking drought along the Wasatch Front forces tough decisions about water supply.
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How a federal drought relief program left southern Oregon parched—and contributed to the ongoing groundwater crisis in the West
For two decades, the Bureau of Reclamation incentivized farmers to pump water faster than the resource could recover, despite warnings from its own scientists. This year, residents of Klamath County paid the price, as hundreds of household wells went dry.
Where is the water going?
Small California farmers struggle as ag titans wheel water for profit
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The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking
The very ground upon which Corcoran, Calif., was built has been slowly but steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily not by nature but agriculture.
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La ciudad de California que está hundiéndose
El terreno sobre el que se construyó Corcoran se ha derrumbado lenta pero constantemente, una situación causada principalmente por la agricultura y no por la naturaleza.
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Innovative partnerships and exchanges are securing the Gila River Indian Community’s water future
The Gila River Indian Community is restoring its “lifeblood” back through innovative partnerships and water exchanges.
Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest
Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest May 7, 2021 By Elizabeth Miller New Mexico In Depth Three new water tanks holding 5.7 million gallons sit on a bluff north of town. San Juan river water will flow into these tanks, and from there will be largely gravity fed through the new water
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Cheese in the desert: Why mega-dairies are piping water onto Oregon’s shrub-steppe
An environmental coalition is lobbying for a moratorium on mega-dairies, which have proliferated in a water-challenged area of northeastern Oregon
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