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Pete Letheby says the West is headed for a hotter and
drier future, and this time, as farmer Gerald Spangler warns him,
we’re running out of groundwater.
by Pete Letheby,
Nov 19, 2007
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A look at the recent California wildfires details how much
they’ve cost so far and how many acres were burned,
especially in the expanding wildland-urban interface.
by Christine Hoekinga,
Nov 12, 2007
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The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
– the West’s most powerful water agency – uses a
shrewd blend of Wall Street tactics and rural diplomacy to keep the
water flowing to L.A. and its environs.
by Matt Jenkins,
Jul 16, 2008
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Jonathan Thompson kayaks Lake Powell and finds it
drastically changed – and shrunken – from the
“Lake Foul” he first visited 20 years ago.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Jul 16, 2008
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Paul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate
the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched
grasslands.
by Paul VanDevelder,
Sep 24, 2007
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Some communities are trying to keep discarded
pharmaceuticals out of the water supply by organizing
“take-back programs” for leftover drugs
by Peter Friederici,
Jul 16, 2008
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As population growth and climate change stress the
region’s water supplies, Westerners think hard about
recycling their effluent, although some worry about the possibly
harmful endocrine disrupters found in cleaned-up
effluent.
by Peter Friederici,
Jul 16, 2008
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Alan Kesselheim misses the summers of the past, when
Western skies were blue and clear and not blurred and choked with
smoke and ash.
by Alan Kesselheim,
Aug 31, 2007
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Rocky Barker warns us that the new West is a world of
inevitable, long-lasting and increasing forest fires.
by Rocky Barker,
Aug 31, 2007
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Lissa James figures that, with so many other
get-rich-quick schemers exploiting the West’s need for water,
she should have no problem selling her new book, How to Turn
Catastrophe into Cash.
by Lissa James,
Jul 02, 2007
