No time to read the news articles? We’ve bundled the last week’s worth of them into our Western-Water Weekly video series. The latest video is now available and embedded below:
From parched desert to pounding rain, the West just flipped from drought to deluge. Hurricane Priscilla’s remnants soaked the Southwest, flooding Utah and Arizona in one of the region’s wettest weeks on record—right as Utah passed a landmark Great Salt Lake bill.
Meanwhile, a new U.S. Geological Survey report shows pesticide contamination in groundwater dropping nationwide. California expands groundwater monitoring with help from NASA satellites and experiments with solar panels over canals. The University of Nebraska releases the first national water-rights map, and the Colorado River Indian Tribes consider granting the river legal personhood.
It’s a week of extremes—floods, droughts, innovation, and change—captured fast, clear, and grounded in facts that matter.
