Robert Schulte posted a link this morning to Google Earth Engine and I played around with it a bit. This view appears to show a growing Las Vegas sucking down Lake Mead. Of course, Arizona and California helped a bit; and a long, continuing drought contributed. But it’s still interesting to see such a direct […]
Water Headache
There’s been a lot of good ink devoted lately to the subject of the drought and water crisis in the West. I’ve posted several links and articles in months past, especially by Brandon Loomis at the Republic. I just read a really good new piece by David Owen in The New Yorker that made my […]
Desert Water Crisis
In its continuing coverage of the great Southwestern Drought, which seems to magically disappear from our minds every time it rains, the Arizona Republic published yet another great piece of work by Brandon Loomis this week. It doesn’t help our awareness that the Republic buries a print front-page story in the muddled mess that AZCentral […]