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Western Reservoirs Could Run Dry in 3 Years, Top Official Warns

/in , , /by /E&E Newsby Jennifer Yachnin

A top Centennial State official warned Colorado River Basin states that the system’s federal reservoirs could effectively empty in a few short years barring aggressive reductions to water demands.

Colorado River Water Conservation District General Manager Andy Mueller painted a bleak future for the basin’s seven states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — on Friday, during his organization’s annual conference in Grand Junction, Colo., on the river’s future.

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FERC Endorses Nation’s Largest Dam Removal Project

/in , , /by /Greenwireby Jennifer Yachnin

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has advanced the nation’s largest dam-removal project, which could restore flowing water to more than 400 miles of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon line.

FERC’s release Friday of its final environmental impact statement reiterated its support for removing the Lower Klamath Project’s four hydroelectric dams.

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Arid West Starts Dreaming About Piping in Water From Afar

/in , , /by /Greenwireby Jennifer Yachnin

Even in the decades before the West plunged into a 22-year drought, the proposals to shift water from wetter states to more arid locations have never been in short supply.

There was the submarine pipeline from Alaska to California. Towing Antarctic icebergs to make up for shortfalls in drinking water supplies. A pipeline from Lake Superior to Wyoming.

And that one plan that more or less required an invasion of Canada.

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