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Geotimes
August 2004
Naomi Lubick |
New Water Model for Southwest According to a new model by a researcher working in the New Mexico water basin, the seven-year drought that affected the area in the 1950s may finally be making its way into the Rio Grande.   |
Geotimes
May 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Western Aquifers Under Stress Although the rate of water consumption in the United States has not increased over the past five years, according to a recently released U.S. Geological Survey report, water problems are prevalent across the country. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Eloise Kendy |
Water Woes: Predictable But Not Inevitable Maintaining current streamflow patterns in the wake of land-use change requires preemptive engineering. Regardless of which approach is chosen, basic hydrologic principles are guidance enough to begin the process of informed decision-making and water-management planning. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Matthew Power |
Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping. Water has been a serious issue in the developing world for so long, but the scarcity of freshwater is no longer a problem restricted to poor countries. |
Popular Mechanics
October 27, 2009
Adam Hadhazy |
How California's New Water Laws Inform the Coming National Crisis As California withers through a third year of drought, state lawmakers have been recalled to Sacramento for a special legislative session to try and squelch a decades-in-the-making water crisis. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Adee & Moore |
In the American Southwest, the Energy Problem Is Water Energy producers on the Colorado River are struggling |
Popular Mechanics
February 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Las Vegas Tries to Prevent a Water Shortage The debate over a plan to pump water out of the Nevada desert could be the next battle in the war over the West's most vital natural resource. |
Outside
August 2003
Misty Blakesley |
Ecotourism Adventure Travel - Water in the Balance Water issues chronically become water wars. Here are some collisions in progress--from bang-ups over how to divide spoils to clashes over big cleanups--that need to be resolved in the years ahead. |
Geotimes
March 2003 |
Geomedia Relatively few people know that groundwater pumping affects streams, lakes, wetlands and springs. Robert Glennon's book, Water Follies, sets to turn this situation around... Magnetic anomaly map of North America by the North American Magnetic Anomaly Group |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Jean Kumagai |
Australia's Drought-Busting Water Grid In the driest continent, saving water means spending watts |
Geotimes
May 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Natural Boron Contamination in Mediterranean Groundwater Within the past few decades, the water quality in many of the coastal aquifers along the Mediterranean Sea has rapidly degraded. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Michael Milstein |
6 Radical Solutions for U.S. Southwest's Peak Water Problem Increased usage and years of drought are diminishing the Colorado River's flow. States that rely on that water are forming strategies to deal with the problem. |
Scientific American
December 2006
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Challenge of Sustainable Water Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems |
Adventure
September 2004
Cliff Ransom |
Native New Mexico Hit high passes, rapids, and ancient pueblos in Chimayo, New Mexico. |
Geotimes
May 2004
Swarzenski & Campbell |
Tracking Contaminants Down the Mississippi The U.S. Geological Survey is working with scientists from various universities and state agencies to investigate the historic downstream delivery of sediment-associated contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Kenneth R. Bradbury |
A Circuitous Path: Protecting Groundwater in Wisconsin Groundwater follows a winding path -- and one much faster than previously thought -- to municipal wells in the city of Sturgeon Bay, and it may pick up contaminants along the way. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Tree Rings Reveal Overestimate in Western Water When a severe drought hit the Colorado River Basin area between 2000 and 2004, people began to question whether current practices for managing the river would be adequate for managing future water demands. One recent study suggests an answer: probably not. |
Outside
October 2009
Justin Nyberg |
Southwest Adventures: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado The last thing you expect to see next to 14,000-foot peaks is a 30-square-mile chunk of Sahara-like desert. The unlikely juxtaposition makes Great Sand Dunes National Park one of the most remarkable spots in the country. |
Outside
February 2002
William T. Vollmann |
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary� and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created� and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake that kills the very life it shelters... |
Geotimes
May 2006
Avner Vengosh |
Rooting Out Radioactive Groundwater Given the continuous degradation of the quality of groundwater in many aquifers worldwide, and the increasing demand for using alternative water resources, the radioactivity factor may be more important than is realized. |
Science News
February 16, 2008 |
Timeline: From the February 12, 1938, issue Towers reach skyward to start radio waves... River took hardest way, formed Yellowstone Canyon... Years of drought coming to great basin, is warning... |
Mother Jones
December 2000
Bill Donahue |
The Same River Twice It's been a horror movie set, a sewer, a flood control ditch. Now environmentalists, and some politicians, are pushing a novel idea: They want to turn the Los Angeles River into... a river... |
Geotimes
March 2003
Greg Peterson |
Congress confronts a depleting aquifer Approximately 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the U.S. comes from a single source: the High Plains Aquifer. In March, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed a bill that provides a scientific basis for extending the usable life of the aquifer. |
Real Travel Adventures
November 2005
Ron Kapon |
Up Up and Away to New Mexico A list of must sees for those visiting New Mexico for either business or pleasure. |
High on Adventure
October 2007
Vicki Andersen |
Life Along the Rio la Pasion Located in the western lowlands region of northern Guatemala, the River of Passion flows in a sinuous and westward advance. |
Wild West
Mike Coppock |
The Republic of the Rio Grande After Texas gained its independence from Mexico, some Texans and Mexicans were ready to create a new buffer nation. Britain and France had already recognized Texas' independence, and only Mexico stood in the way. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 42
David Bradley |
River Deep An ancient and dried up riverbed in north-eastern Ohio prevents a pool of chemical waste from infiltrating the Ohio River |
Geotimes
April 2003
Gosselin et al. |
The Complex Dakota Aquifer: Managing Groundwater in Nebraska One size (or strategy) does not fit all where Dakota groundwater management is concerned. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2007
Linda Ballou |
Slow Blowing Dream Coming home to Alaska's unrivaled beauty |
Outside
June 2003
Christopher Cox |
The Wilder Amazon Hit the biodiversity jackpot in Brazil's Pantanal |
Geotimes
May 2004
Craig Schiffries |
Closing the Gap Between Water Science and Water Policy The urgent need to close the gap between water science and water policy dominated the 4th National Conference on Science Policy and the Environment, which explored science-based strategies for achieving water sustainability. |
