Results for keyword: irrigation
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Last rites in salmon country?
Salmon fishermen gear up for a risky season despite California’s ongoing water wars.
by Matt Jenkins, May 19, 2010 -
It takes a district: Utah landowners control groundwater use
In southern Utah's Escalante Valley, local landowners will form a water district to save their declining aquifer.
by Jamie Hansen, May 09, 2010 -
Removing four dams is worth some compromise
It's not perfect, but the settlement that removes four dams in Oregon and California's Klamath River Basin is the right thing to do.
by Erica Terence, Apr 29, 2010 -
Warning: Water policy faces an age of limits
New water projects and giant pipelines will do nothing to solve the West's drought and its increasing water shortage.
by Dan McCool, Apr 22, 2010 -
Sometimes water can cost way too much
Aaron Million's plan to pump Green River water from Wyoming to Colorado's Front Range is unlikely to succeed because it's just too darn expensive.
by Chuck Howe, Apr 08, 2010 -
A federal agency tries to hold on to what it's built
As climate change and water shortages bring an end to the era of dams, the federal Bureau of Reclamation seeks to reinvent itself.
by Allen Best , Dec 01, 2009 -
One man's salt must not burden another man's water
The little farming town of Mancos, Colo., is finding ways to remove salt from its water and make irrigation more efficient during drought.
by Tom Wolf, Jul 24, 2009 -
Semi-wild in the new West
Semi-wild rural landscapes, where humans mingle with wildlife, are a richer source of biodiversity than many Westerners realize.
by Paul Larmer , May 08, 2009 -
Getting the salt out
Arizona considers plans to clean up salty irrigation water without drying out wetlands created by that water.
by Michelle Blank, Apr 25, 2007 -
Too much can be asked of a river
Laura Paskus lives a mile and a half from the Rio Grande, a river which shares a dubious distinction with India’s Ganges and China’s Yangze: The three are among the Top Ten most endangered rivers on the planet.
by Laura Paskus, Apr 02, 2007






