Resources - News Articles
This reference page contains links to selected newspaper reports and articles that relate to water. Some of the articles are about water issues in other states, but many of the issues cited apply equally well (or more) here in New Mexico.
New York Times 08/23/24 Drinking Water Is at Risk in Parrs of Long Island, Study Finds
New York Times 08/21/24 Letters to Editor about 08/09/24 article Pipe Great Lakes Water to California?
New York Times 08/11/24 Spain is Thirsty. Here's How It Gets Water
New York Times 08/09/24 Opinion suggesting we need a national groundwater management policy: Pipe Great Lake Water to California?
New York Times 05/18/24 Mexico City Is Drying Out
New York Times 05/16/24 Two Wet Winters Raise the Great Salt Lane and Raise Complacency
New York Times 05/01/24 Climate Change Not Responsible for Panama Drought
New York Times 04/23/24 Where Water and Politics Collide in Arizona
New York Times 04/03/24 An Approach to Dealing with Floodwater
New York Times 04/02/24 This Year's Big California Snowpack Is an Aberration
New York Times 02/29/24 Courts Permit Western States to Protect Groundwater
New York Times 02/16/24 Montana Restricting New Groundwater Uses
New York Times 02/13/24 East Coast Land Subsidence from Groundwater Pumping
New York Times 02/09/24 Costs of Corporate Assistance
New York Times 02/07/24 Warming Might Be Worse than Thought
New York Times 01/24/24 Groundwater Levels Are Falling Worldwide
Gallup Independent 01/24/24 The legislature should fully fund water planning
New York Times 01/18/24 They Abducted a River in California. And Nobody Stopped Them
New York Times 01/11/24 Drought Touches a Quarter of Humanity, U.N. Days, Disrupting Lives Globally
New York Times 01/06/24 Colorado River States Are Racing to Agree on Cuts Before Inauguration Day
New York Times 12/29/23 Strawberry Case Study: What if Farmers Had to Pay for Water?
New York Times 12/24/23 How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
New York Times 12/14/23 Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First.
New York Times 11/24/23 As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change
New York Times 11/02/23 A Tangle of Rules to Protect America’s Water Is Falling Short
New York Times 10/24/23 Inside Poland Spring’s Hidden Attack on Water Rules It Didn’t Like
New York Times 10/12/23 California Moves Closer to Imposing First Limits on Groundwater Use
New York Times 07/19/23 Facing a Future of Drought, Spain Turns to Medieval Solutions and ‘Ancient Wisdom’
New York Times 06/06/23 The Grand Canyon, a Cathedral to Time, Is Losing Its River
New York Times 05/22/23 The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All the Water.
New York Times 05/22/23 A Breakthrough Deal to Keep the Colorado River From Going Dry, for Now
New York Times 03/20/23 The Colorado River Is Running Dry, but Nobody Wants to Talk About the Mud
New York Times 02/23/23 California Wants to Keep (Most of) the Colorado River for Itself
SF New Mexican 02/10/23 Task force releases plan to manage water amid climate change
New York Times 11/27/22 French Police Guard Water as Seasonal Drought Intensifies
New York Times 09/26/22 How New Mexico’s Largest Wildfire Set Off a Drinking Water Crisis
New York Times 09/05/22 Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a Model to Avert the Worst.
New York Times 09/01/22 Mississippi Crisis Highlights Climate Threat to Drinking Water Nationwide
New York Times 08/28/22 Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front
New York Times 08/16/22 A New Round of Colorado River Cuts Is Announced
New York Times 08/15/22 In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year
New York Times 08/12/22 The Coming California Megastorm
New York Times 08/04/22 The Coming Crisis Along the Colorado River
New York Times 08/02/22 White House Retrofits Infrastructure Bill to Better Help Poor Communities
New York Times 05/03/22 Where Lawns Are Outlawed (and Dug Up, and Carted Away)
New York Times 05/03/22 Colorado River Reservoirs Are So Low, Government Will Delay Releases
New Mexico PBS 11/15/21 Already ‘baked in,’ NM’s water challenges loom large on the political landscape
New York Times 11/06/21 Infrastructure Bill Makes First Major U.S. Investment in Climate Resilience
New York Times 10/02/21 In Arizona, Drought Ignites Tensions and Threatens Traditions Among the Hopi
New York Times 09/07/21 To Avoid River Flooding, Go With the Flow, the Dutch Say
New York Times 08/16/21 In a First, U.S. Declares Shortage on Colorado River, Forcing Water Cuts
New York Times 07/06/21 No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology.
New York Times 06/28/21 It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?
New York Times 06/24/21 Wildfires Threaten Urban Water Supplies, Long After the Flames Are Out
New York Times 06/01/21 Amid Historic Drought, a New Water War in the West
New York Times 05/27/21 Taiwan Prays for Rain and Scrambles to Save Water
Capital & Main 01/08/21 The Southwest’s Race Against the Climate Clock
