Cadiz Inc woos Riverside utility for Mojave groundwater mining project
WESTERN Municipal Water District in Riverside is among five Southern California suppliers that have expressed interest in a controversial proposal to store and draw water from ancient aquifers in the Mojave Desert, reports the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
The $200 million project in the Cadiz Valley, about 40 miles east of Twentynine Palms, would involve burying 44 miles of pipeline to move surplus Colorado River water to an underground basin the size of Rhode Island.
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To read Chance of Rain on the legacy of political palm-greasing behind the Cadiz project, click on the dollar bill.
To read Chance of Rain about how palms are greased, click on the five dollar bill.
To read Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, along with a long list of distinguished Los Angeles Times reporters on Cadiz, click on the masthead.
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Chance of rain in 2080
From the multi agency White House Global Climate Change Impacts report Southwest chapter, a look at a future with less fresh water and more people. To read the report, click on the Lower Emissions Scenario.
Via the Great Basin Water Network and Dr. James Deacon, Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas Departments of Environmental Studies and Biology.…
Bankruptcy in the Mojave
IMAGE OF THE DAY: an unfinished shopping mall in Summerlin, Howard Hughes’ “masterplanned” community in Greater Las Vegas. From Las Vegas Sun photographer Steve Marcus with story by Steve Green. To read it, click on the abandoned building site.…
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