Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “The public pays to keep water in a river.” For four years, farmers on the California-Oregon border have battled the U.S. government in the courts for $100 million in damages, after the Bureau of Reclamation withheld irrigation […]
Bureau of Reclamation
Posted inMarch 21, 2005: An Empire Built on Sand
Arizona returns to the desert
The worst drought in a century could bring home the true costs of growth
Posted inMarch 21, 2005: An Empire Built on Sand
What’s worse than the worst-case scenario? Real life
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Arizona returns to the desert.” In the early 1990s, the U.S. Geological Survey and several other government agencies funded a little-noticed study of the effect of a major drought on the Colorado River. Researchers were particularly interested in its impacts on Lakes Powell and […]
Posted inJanuary 24, 2005: Written in the Rings
A crisis brews on the Colorado
With water supplies dwindling, states getan order to share the pain
Posted inDecember 20, 2004: Stand Your Ground
Fisheries agency rewards a loyal bureaucrat
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Conscientious Objectors.” People who worry about the Pacific Coast’s endangered salmon runs are likely to recognize James Lecky’s name. In 2002, Lecky, an assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Region in Long Beach, Calif., reworked his agency’s flow recommendations for the Klamath River. The […]
Posted inMay 10, 2004: Shooting Spree
Water ‘holy war’ rages in central Utah
Will taxpayers foot the bill on a federally subsidized fossil?
Posted inMay 10, 2004: Shooting Spree
Dam’s price tag skyrockets
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “Water ‘holy war’ rages in central Utah.” After decades of rancorous debate, construction is under way on the Animas-La Plata dam project in dusty southwestern Colorado (HCN, 8/27/01: A-LP gets federal A-OK). But anyone who thought the […]
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
Fish gotta spawn
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Fish gotta spawn.
Posted inAugust 12, 1991: West's grand old water doctrine dies
Charles Wilkinson crows over the corpse of the West’s traditional approach to water
A eulogy of an old scourge and warning against a new one.