Clean Water Reports
Search this section • RSS Feed
| 9/23/2005 | |
| In the American West, no other effect of climate disruption is as significant as how it endangers the region’s already scarce snowpacks and water supply. With the inherent vulnerability of the dry West to even small changes in the snow-water cycle, these risks alone present ample reason for Westerners to take action to protect this special region. | |
| Get Report | |
| 9/13/2006 | |
| In a new report, Our Water, Our Future: Policy Options to Safeguard Water Resources in New Mexico, Environment New Mexico looks at the current state of New Mexico’s water supply—its sources, its uses and the demands placed on it—and presents an array of short- and long-term policy solutions to New Mexico’s water scarcity problems. | |
| Get Report | |
| 10/11/2007 | |
| October 18, 2007 marks the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark law intended to restore and maintain the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the nation’s waters. In passing the Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. Although we have made significant progress in improving water quality since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we are far from realizing the Act’s original vision. | |
| Get Report | |
| 08/05/2008 | |
| The report, Using Water Wisely: Southwest Data Shows the Promise of Efficiency, analyzes water saving opportunities in six southwestern states—New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Utah. The report finds that the Southwest could save as much as 5.7 million acre feet of water each year by using existing technology and adopting proven, effective best practices in the agricultural, residential, electric generation and industrial sectors. | |
| Get Report | |