Chip Ward, Tomdispatch.com. September 16, 2009. The era of cheap and plentiful water in the West is over and that's bad news for our sprawling cities, agriculture and ecosystems.
Alex Steffen, Worldchanging. August 10, 2009. Water in the very near future will be neither cheap nor plentiful, and much of the Southwest is destined for real trouble.
Gabriel Arana, The Nation. May 29, 2009. The national media have invented a drug-related rise of border violence that officials and local journalists say just isn't happening.
Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor. April 23, 2009. Without significantly cuts in demand, there won't be enough water for those promised on the Lower Colorado River.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. January 23, 2009. Filmmaker Jim Thebaut talks about the precarious future of the Southwest and the call for a national water plan.
Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Christian Science Monitor. January 21, 2009. The landscape will change, but the effect of natural drought cycles and climate change is restoring the grasslands of centuries ago.
Jo-Shing Yang, AlterNet. November 11, 2008. Green lawns, swimming pools, and corporate farms in the desert Southwest are taking their toll on our neighbors to the south.
Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal. October 16, 2008. The abundant water and cheap energy that have fueled the Southwest's transformation are starting to dry up.
Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor. February 13, 2008. Scientists reported that Lakes Mead and Powell stand a 50 percent chance of running dry by 2021.
