CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER CRISES: DROUGHT, FLOOD, CONTAMINATION … AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT RESOURCES

GLOBAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH THE WATER CYCLE

• The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot, Peter Gleick, The Guardian

• La Niña is coming. Here's what that means for winter weather in the U.S., Rachel Treisman
  

• FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE, Where civilization emerged between the Tigris and Euphrates, climate change is poisoning the land and emptying the villages, Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim, Washington Post 

• ‘It still gives me nightmares’: the firefighters on the frontline as the world burns, Sarah Johnson, The Guardian

• US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as huge storm brews, Victoria Bekiempis, The Guardian

• Hurricane Shaheen off the coast of Oman, photographed from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai 

• Sea Level Rise and Population Impact, Climate Central 

• World Meteorological Organization Sharpens Warnings About Both Too Much and Too Little Water, Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News

• What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized, Aliya Uteuova, The Guardian

• Video shows salmon injured by unlivable water temperatures after heatwave, Hallie Golden, The Guardian

• The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment, Philippus Wester et al., International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development 

• World’s Third Pole is melting away, Chelsea Harvey, Climatewire 

• Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns, Christopher Flavelle, New York Times 

• Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing Climate Change, Kirk Semple, New York Times

• This Land Is the Only Land There Is, Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic 

• Areas of Earth that contributed less to climate change will suffer the most, Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle 

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE US SOUTHWEST

• Severe drought threatens Hoover dam reservoir – and water for US west, Oliver Milman, The Guardian 

• San Joaquin Valley, California: Largest human alteration of the Earth’s surface, Devin Galloway and Francis S. Riley, US Geological Survey 

• In Arizona, drought ignites tensions and threatens traditions among the Hopi, Simon Romero, NYT

• California State Water Resources Control Board drought information 

• California State Water Resources Control Board

• Reports on 2012-16 drought: California Department of Natural Resources

• Planning and Conservation League Modernizing California Water Law effort 

• Public Policy Institute of California fact sheet on water affordability

• Pacific Institute report on Customer Debt and Lost Revenue: The Financial Impacts of COVID-19 on Small Community Water Systems

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner, Penguin Randomhouse

FIRE AND WATER: CYCLES COLLIDE

• Wildfires: How Do They Affect Our Water Supplies? United States Environmental Protection Agency 

• Report finds urban sprawl is fueling devastating wildfires, San Diego News

WATER DISTRIBUTION INEQUITIES

• New report: Drought to hit rural Latino communities hardest, Rachel Becker, Cal Matters 

• The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes, Judy Fahys, Inside Climate News

• Many Native Americans Can't Get Clean Water, Report Finds, Laurel Morales, NPR

• Michigan tells majority-Black city not to drink tap water amid lead crisis, Eric Lutz and Erin McCormick, The Guardian

LIVING WITH THE LAND: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

• How Indigenous knowledge could help manage wildfire risk, World Economic Forum 

• De-colonizing water. Dispossession, water insecurity, and Indigenous claims for resources, authority, and territory, Juan Pablo Hidalgo, Rutgerd Boelens, Jeroen Vos, Water History 

• On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene, Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, ACME 

• ‘No fish means no food’: how Yurok women are fighting for their tribe’s nutritional health, Lucy Sherriff, The Guardian

ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE

• How cities can adapt to climate change, Brodie Boland, Elizabeth Charchenko, Stefan Knupfer, Shivika Sahdev, McKinsey 

• A Guide for a Just and Resilient Recovery, HR&A 

• Putting a fair price on water: a strategic investment, Gretchen McClain, The Guardian 

• Op-ed: Embracing rainwater through green infrastructure, Mary Pat McGuire, Environmental Health News 

• Choices made now are critical for the future of our ocean and cryosphere, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, press release, September 25, 2019

• The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching, Michael Kimmelman, NYT 

• Paris is creating an OASIS in the heart of its neighborhoods and why more cities should follow, Maria Sitzoglou, Urban Innovative Actions

• Minute 323A U.S.-Mexico agreement on water that benefits all, The Nature Conservancy 

• Equity in the Colorado River Basin: How to Sustainably Manage a Shrinking Resource, Conference at Colorado Law, Boulder, CO Oct. 7, 2021

• Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: Guidance for Preparing Groundwater Sustainability Plans, Science for Conservation 

• California State Water Resources Control Board Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience program 

RIGHTS OF RIVERS (AND OTHER BODIES OF WATER)

TED Talk: Why Lakes and Rivers Should Have the Same Rights as Humans, Dr. Kelsey Leonard 

CELDF Endorses Proposal for Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands, CELDF

While Nestlé extracts millions of litres from their land, residents have no drinking water, Alexandra Shimo, The Guardian 

Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era, by Daniel McCool