Visit the Water Shelf main page Los Angeles’s water supply is a topic of near-mythological scope, extending back to its noirish capture of eastern Sierra water rights at the beginning of the 20th century to the formation of the Metropolitan...
Visit the Water Shelf main page The concept of our planet being misnamed “Earth,” when in fact 75% of its surface is covered by water, is not original. Robinson Jeffers, in his mid-century poem “The Eye,” likens human conflicts on...
Visit the Water Shelf main page By Julie Greene In 2023, the Supreme Court made one of its most devastating rulings in environmental history. By narrowing the legal definition of ‘waters of the United States’ (WOTUS), the court opened the...
Visit the Water Shelf main page By Mike Ricciardi We are waking up to the reality that we live on a water planet, and it changes everything Europe and Asia lead the world with the introduction of a “Blue Economy”...
Visit the Water Shelf main page By Julie Greene, Island Press Flooding in California. Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. Massive fish kills in Texas and Australia. “Forever chemicals” in US drinking water. Too often, these dire stories...
