Water has always been essential. What’s changed is how much it costs. And why? Across the U.S., water rates are climbing, driven by a “perfect storm” of crumbling infrastructure, new federal mandates, and explosive industrial demand. While annual increases might seem incremental, the cumulative trend is staggering. Here are six things you need to know […]
The Colorado River water management crisis has reached another critical moment. There is a deadline on the wall, and the West just missed it. February 14th came and went without agreement among the seven Colorado River Basin states on how to manage one of the most critical water systems in North America. It wasn’t the first missed […]
For irrigation contractors and agricultural producers, water is not an abstract political topic. It is the operating system of your business. Every field, every landscape, every pivot, every valve, every crop depends on it. This week, that operating system became even more strained. The seven states that rely on the Colorado River failed to reach […]