Videos
New Rule: America's Pipe Dream
A segment from the 2021-09-10 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. Host Bill Maher discusses the feasibility of water pipelines.Colorado River Drought
A segment from the 2021-10-24 episode of 60 Minutes. Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports on the stresses placed on the Colorado River Basin the southwest. Includes interviews with Brad Udall on water supply and demand, and with JB Hamby, vice president of the Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors, discussing the need to preserve existing water allocations for Imperial Valley farmers.
Articles
Pipe Dreams: The Forgotten Project that Could Have Saved America
A 2015-09-18 article by Buzz Feed News reporter Michelle Nijhuis on the North American Water and Power Alliance, a 1960's project headed by billionaire Ralph Parsons. The project envisioned a large network of reservoirs, canals, dams, pipelines, and tunnels.Pipe dreams: Why far-fetched Western water projects won’t go away
A 2022-08-15 piece by Grist reporter Jake Bittle, reporting on pipeline projects for the Mississippi River, the Green River Colorado, Lake Powell in Arizona, and the Sacramento River in California.For drought-plagued California diverting Columbia River water is a pipe dream … for now
A 2022-10-13 article by Columbia Insight reporter John Harrison about historical difficulties encoutered as a result of plans to send Columbia River water to California.Big Water Pipelines, an Old Pursuit, Still Alluring in Drying West
A 2022-07-21 article by Circle of Blue journalist Brett Walton, covering several pipeline projects and their political challenges, environmental impacts, and costs.The Fate of the West’s Water Rests on the Shoulders of This 27-Year-Old
Politico reporter Annie Snider profiles Vice President of the Imperial Irrigation District J.B. Hamby in this 2023-12-12 article. Issues include the difficult negotiations over agricultural use of increasingly scarce Colorado River water.An "interstate water system" could fix the West's water woes
A 2021-05-26 article by Joseph Schulman, John Schaefer, and Henry Miller on the feasibility of distributing water by means of a system similar to the Interstate Highway system.Water Brokers - Water in the Southwest bought and sold
A 2023-05-23 article by Grist reporter Jake Bittle on the Vidler Water Company, which functions as a broker for water rights.
Sites
American Water Works Association
The American Water Works Association is an international, nonprofit, scientific and educational society dedicated to providing total water solutions assuring the effective management of water. Founded in 1881, the Association is the largest organization of water supply professionals in the world.Circle of Blue
Circle of Blue unites classic journalism, data literacy and transformative connectivity. Its trusted reporting has enhanced climate agreements, urban policy and citizen activity, and it has inspired collaboration from Davos to Beijing, from Washington to the Vatican.Columbia Insight
Columbia Insight is a nonprofit, independent, online environmental news organization based in Hood River, Oregon. Its mission is to inform and inspire readers with original, balanced journalism about environmental issues affecting the Columbia River Basin.KUNC, Western Water Coverage
KUNC (Northern Colorado NPR) provides a series of articles covering water issues in the Colorado River basin.Western-Water.com
Western-Water.com provides collected articles on water issues affecting the states that participate in the Colorado River Compact.The Water Desk
An independent, nonprofit journalism initiative covering water issues, with a focus on the Colorado River Basin and Western North America.