Circle of Blue
MARCH 9, 2023
Conservation easements protect the region’s depleted groundwater. Pragmatic ingenuity is being applied here to overcome them, including a new easement program that uses federal and state tax benefits to conserve groundwater. Easements are the latest step in a developing strategy to meet Colorado’s water conservation directive.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
As Henk Ovink, the Netherlands’ special envoy for international water, put it, “The moment you want to bring water to a political table, there is no political table.”. He explained, “We’re trying to think of this as a development priority as opposed to a nature conservation priority.”. There are other hurdles as well.
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Circle of Blue
AUGUST 23, 2021
The Water, Peace, and Security Partnership includes Dutch researchers and international conservation groups. The Taliban must also tread delicately in international politics, managing river systems that cross into Iran and the countries of Central Asia. Farmers will pump more groundwater and some will be paid to conserve water.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 4, 2022
Knowing they are targets, farmers in southern Arizona and California who receive irrigation water from the Colorado River are discussing a plan that could go a long way toward meeting a federal conservation mandate in the drying basin. Besides the irrigation districts, urban suppliers in the basin are also putting forward conservation plans.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change. The post What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Beginning in early 2021, the California Planning & Conservation League Foundation convened a group of water law professors and other water experts to formulate specific recommendations for modernizing California water rights law. But that momentum did not stop there. That effort should and will continue.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Lawmakers have accordingly sought ways to conserve water, particularly in urban areas. Ecological Conservation. This year saw significant budget allocations to facilitate California’s conservation goals. The post 2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted? Download as PDF.
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