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  1. Unraveling The Drivers Of Water Shortage Across Spatial Scales And Sectors In Colorado's West Slope River Basins
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    doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008137 <-- shared paper
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    ['sorry' about your Kentucky Bluegrass, almonds, etc... /s]
    H/T Sai Veena Sunkara | Postdoctoral Associate
    โ€œโ€ฆColoradoโ€™s West Slope basins provide nearly 70% of the inflows to Lake Powell and are also essential to communities, agriculture, industry, hydropower, and downstream Colorado River users.
    To examine the wide range of possible futures, [they] simulated 2.1 million years, defining 20,000 plausible scenarios applying changes to streamflow, snowmelt timing, drought persistence, and agricultural, municipal, and industrial water demand.
    A key finding is that there is ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€. The most influential drivers vary by basin, sector, and water user. In some areas, shortages are driven primarily by persistent low-flow conditions or changing snowmelt timing. In others, increasing municipal, industrial, or irrigation demand plays a larger role. This suggests that adaptation strategies must be tailored to specific basins and users rather than relying on a single, system-wide solution. Other major findings are
    โ€ข West Slope deliveries to Lake Powell could fall more than 50% below the current median baseline
    โ€ข Storage in major West Slope reservoirs could decline 40โ€“55% below historical medians
    These results underscore the need for water-planning approaches that account for deep uncertainty, persistent drought, shifting snowmelt patterns, and sector-specific demandโ€ฆโ€
    #Colorado #waterallocation #StateMod #USWest #USA #WesternSlope #waterresources #watersecurity #watershortage #drought #snowmelt #rainfall #precipitation #riverbasin #water #hydrography #hydrology #reasons #agriculture #industry #hydropower #streamflow #surfacewater #municipal #irrigation #adaptationstrategies #planning #policy #mitigation #ColoradoRiver #basins #climatechange #extremeweather #populationpressure #waterdemand #waterrights #model #modeling #HiddenMarkovModel #stochastic #projecteddemand #ColoradoRiverBasin #wateruse #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #strategy

  2. Unraveling The Drivers Of Water Shortage Across Spatial Scales And Sectors In Colorado's West Slope River Basins
    --
    doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008137 <-- shared paper
    --
    ['sorry' about your Kentucky Bluegrass, almonds, etc... /s]
    H/T Sai Veena Sunkara | Postdoctoral Associate
    โ€œโ€ฆColoradoโ€™s West Slope basins provide nearly 70% of the inflows to Lake Powell and are also essential to communities, agriculture, industry, hydropower, and downstream Colorado River users.
    To examine the wide range of possible futures, [they] simulated 2.1 million years, defining 20,000 plausible scenarios applying changes to streamflow, snowmelt timing, drought persistence, and agricultural, municipal, and industrial water demand.
    A key finding is that there is ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€. The most influential drivers vary by basin, sector, and water user. In some areas, shortages are driven primarily by persistent low-flow conditions or changing snowmelt timing. In others, increasing municipal, industrial, or irrigation demand plays a larger role. This suggests that adaptation strategies must be tailored to specific basins and users rather than relying on a single, system-wide solution. Other major findings are
    โ€ข West Slope deliveries to Lake Powell could fall more than 50% below the current median baseline
    โ€ข Storage in major West Slope reservoirs could decline 40โ€“55% below historical medians
    These results underscore the need for water-planning approaches that account for deep uncertainty, persistent drought, shifting snowmelt patterns, and sector-specific demandโ€ฆโ€

  3. #HarvestingRainwater with Brad Lancaster: How to Create Livable Desert Cities

    by Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
    Jun 9, 2026

    Part 1 of a 3 Video Series

    "In this episode we see the incredible work that Brad Lancaster and his community are doing to make the #DunbarSpring Neighborhood in #TucsonAZ a cooler, more pleasant and human-friendly place to live by using plants as infrastructure and creating a #FoodForest using #NativePlants that are adapted to deal with the desert heat perfectly because they evolved there.

    "This video shows us how what Brad and his community have done serve as a model as to what could be down to make cities all over the globe more livable, illustrating how human development and nature do not have to be mutually exclusive. Filming this video and seeing that Brad and his people have done made me feel in something I haven't felt in a long time : hope."

    Watch:
    youtube.com/watch?v=wN6t8xwpYZ8

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Rainwater #GreenerCities #Basins #NativeVegetation #WaterStructures #LocalEcology #HeatIslands

  4. #HarvestingRainwater with Brad Lancaster: How to Create Livable Desert Cities

    by Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
    Jun 9, 2026

    Part 1 of a 3 Video Series

    "In this episode we see the incredible work that Brad Lancaster and his community are doing to make the #DunbarSpring Neighborhood in #TucsonAZ a cooler, more pleasant and human-friendly place to live by using plants as infrastructure and creating a #FoodForest using #NativePlants that are adapted to deal with the desert heat perfectly because they evolved there.

    "This video shows us how what Brad and his community have done serve as a model as to what could be down to make cities all over the globe more livable, illustrating how human development and nature do not have to be mutually exclusive. Filming this video and seeing that Brad and his people have done made me feel in something I haven't felt in a long time : hope."

    Watch:
    youtube.com/watch?v=wN6t8xwpYZ8

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Rainwater #GreenerCities #Basins #NativeVegetation #WaterStructures #LocalEcology #HeatIslands

  5. The Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ‘๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿช

    #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Basins #Craters #Earth #Earthrise #Eclipse

    โฉ 8 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spe

  6. The Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ‘๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿช

    #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Basins #Craters #Earth #Earthrise #Eclipse

    โฉ 8 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spe

  7. #Antarcticaโ€™s #melting surprises researchers cosmosmagazine.com/news/antarc

    Wang concludes that the #scientific community should pay more attention to such coastal #glacier #basins. โ€œComplete #disintegrationโ€ of the four glaciers in East Antarctica could trigger global #sea #level rise of more than 7m, he says.

    #climatechange #climatecrisis

  8. #Antarcticaโ€™s #melting surprises researchers cosmosmagazine.com/news/antarc

    Wang concludes that the #scientific community should pay more attention to such coastal #glacier #basins. โ€œComplete #disintegrationโ€ of the four glaciers in East Antarctica could trigger global #sea #level rise of more than 7m, he says.

    #climatechange #climatecrisis

  9. Long-Lived Lakes Reveal A History Of Water On Mars
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    phys.org/news/2022-12-long-liv <-- article
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    doi.org/10.1029/2021JE007152 <-- shared paper
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    "... KEY POINTS
    โ€ข A detailed local study of a system of seven previously unknown palaeolakes near the dichotomy in western Arabia Terra, Mars
    โ€ข High resolution topographic data aids in identification and characterization of palaeolakes and regional hydrological history
    โ€ข Evidence for a prolonged history of fluvial and lacustrine processes, with palaeolakes fed by groundwater and surface accumulation... "
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Mars #remotesensing #hydrology #paleolakes #lakes #lacustrine #imagery #elevation #DEM #height #basins #solarsystem #topography #geomorphology #spatialanalysis #groundwater #surfacewater #erosion #network #waterflow #flow #fluvial #lacustrine #delta #surfacefeatures #water #HiRISE #MOLAR #LiDAR

  10. Long-Lived Lakes Reveal A History Of Water On Mars
    --
    phys.org/news/2022-12-long-liv <-- article
    --
    doi.org/10.1029/2021JE007152 <-- shared paper
    --
    "... KEY POINTS
    โ€ข A detailed local study of a system of seven previously unknown palaeolakes near the dichotomy in western Arabia Terra, Mars
    โ€ข High resolution topographic data aids in identification and characterization of palaeolakes and regional hydrological history
    โ€ข Evidence for a prolonged history of fluvial and lacustrine processes, with palaeolakes fed by groundwater and surface accumulation... "