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talk+water: Gregory Ellis

talk+water: Gregory Ellis

Texas+Water Editor-in-Chief Dr. Todd Votteler interviews Gregory Ellis, Attornery at GM Ellis Law Firm P.C., about Texas groundwater markets.

An “interstate water system” could fix the West’s water woes

An “interstate water system” could fix the West’s water woes

California’s water woes are severe and worsening. A second dry year in a row has diminished the state’s water supply, and almost three-quarters of the state is in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought, the two highest categories. With the rainy season over and a hot, dry summer ahead, water shortages and brushfires are imminent.

Arizona’s Future Water Shock

Arizona’s Future Water Shock

PHOENIX – On a Saturday morning in late January a chill wind kicks up dust on the high desert ridge north of Scottsdale where wood skeletons of new homes appear above the mesquite and cactus of the Rio Verde Foothills…

Tapped Out

Tapped Out

by Allen Best – Front Range cities get up to 50 percent of their water from the Western Slope, but population growth and future droughts could limit transmountain diversions or stop them altogether under the 1922 Colorado River Compact

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FNB Dream Maker Podcast

FNB Dream Maker Podcast

Chris visits with Clay Scott, who farms in Stanton and Grant County, is a member of the Ground Water Management District #3 and is on the Kansas Aqueduct Coalition. We discuss the work the coalition has done on the feasibility of moving water to Western Kansas, Colorado and beyond.