From Water Education Colorado (Jerd Smith): If Colorado decides to join in an historic Colorado River drought protection effort, one that would require setting aside as much as 500,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Powell, can it find a fair way to get the work done? A way that won’t cripple farm economies and one […] …
New Study Projects Severe Water Shortages in the #ColoradoRiver Basin — Inside Climate News #COriver #aridification #snowpack #runoff #ActOnClimate #KeepItInTheGround — Coyote Gulch
From Inside Climate News (Bob Berwyn): The loss of the reflective snowpack drives evaporation and reduces the flow of water, the study found. The 40 million people who rely on Colorado River water need to prepare for a drier future. Global warming is shrinking the Rocky Mountain snowpack that feeds the river and flows are […] …
Trump to Send More of California’s Water to Central Valley Farmers — KTLA
Hoisting the spoils of victories in California’s hard-fought water wars, President Donald Trump is directing more of the state’s precious water to wealthy farmers and other agriculture interests when he visits their Republican Central Valley stronghold Wednesday. Changes by the Trump administration are altering how federal authorities decide who gets water, and how much, in… via …
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New Federal Rule Reduces Protections for Water in the West, Harming People and Birds — @Audubon — Coyote Gulch
Click here to read the January 2020 Western Water News from Audubon. Here’s an excerpt: Western Water News UPDATE: New Federal Rule Reduces Protections for Water in the West, Harming People and Birds The Trump Administration’s revised Waters of the United States rule shrinks the number of waterways protected under the Clean Water Act. UPDATE […] …
@AmericanRivers statement on @POTUS’s administration’s “dirty water” rule #DirtyWaterRule @EPA — Coyote Gulch
Here’s the release from American River (Chris Williams): The Trump Administration [on January 23, 2020] announced the release of its Revised Definition of the Waters of the United States, a sweeping federal rule that drastically weakens the reach and authority of the Clean Water Act to protect the Nation’s rivers, small streams and wetlands. In […] …
New #Water Rule Endangers Millions of Birds and America’s Water Supply — @Audubon — Coyote Gulch
From Audubon (Matt Smelser): “The Trump Administration’s new water rule makes it a lot easier to pave America’s critical wetlands and put up parking lots,” said David Yarnold, president and CEO, National Audubon Society (@david_yarnold) after the Administration announced the finalization of its rollbacks to the Clean Water Act. “Wetlands are not only important places […] …
A storm this way comes
Looking rather ominous
The beauty of water
I've often wondered if water has memory. Does water flowing downstream via waterfalls, rapids and streams remember from where it came? When freshwater meets saltwater, do both waterbodies acknowledge the other as foreign? There's something mesmerizing and awe inspiring about water that goes far beyond its life-giving properties. Water calms, beckons, intimidates, thrills and overwhelms. …
I demand respect!
A lone seagull tried in vain to get in on the action with the harbour's resident geese and ducks, but the poor fellow was left behind to wonder where all the fun went.
Some call the area ‘Cottage Country’, I call it Home
Parry Sound harbour views.
The Northern Herper 
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