2022 Conservation Politics 
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. The strength of the shark’s teeth and the breadth of the bite were on full display in 2022. The big reservoirs on the Colorado River continued to shrink as a warming climate and inadequate conservation dry out the basin.
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 31, 2022
The governor’s top water adviser said that farmers should consider leaving fields unplanted in order to conserve water supplies. That grim forecast comes from the International Organization for Migration, the UN agency that tracks the how people move in response to political and environmental pressures.
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Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 26, 2022
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 26, 2022. Weeks before the November 8 election, national political debate centers on control of Congress. Wilce is the treasurer of Arizona Water Defenders, the political action committee that brought the question to the ballot. Photo © Keith Schneider / Circle of Blue.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 4, 2022
By Brett Walton, 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. Such a plan would require billions in funding.
Circle of Blue
MAY 18, 2022
Many southwestern cities are implementing water conservation policies that experts say are providing ample supplies in an otherwise drought-stricken region of the United States. What’s Up With Water—May 17, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers water-related financial risks and a mandate to conserve water in California.
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. Both AB 460 and AB 1337 were approved by the California State Assembly.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The cholera outbreak in Syria may have been intensified by social and political circumstances. The report is from the conservation group World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, and it takes the pulse of nearly 32,000 species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
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