Big Drought Little Time
Lake Powell was never a good idea—
Read More Big Drought Little TimeAuthor: Dana Smith
Author and Entertainer
Reporting from the American West
And that my friends, that’s why covering this beat will take your breath, spare ink and reams of paper away. This story is that big!
Read More Reporting from the American WestEnergy Transition Gaining Traction
Moore’s Law is our friend.
Read More Energy Transition Gaining TractionColorado River Basin Blues
And that’s why I want you to forget about alfalfa and start to imagine swimming pools. Imagine millions of swimming pools full of water getting shipped overseas…
Read More Colorado River Basin BluesCan Kicking Over— Hard Part is Here
Half-truth tellers, braggarts, and exaggerators are stealing water from Americans. Take the executive director of this outfit called the Agribusiness and Water Council of Arizona. With millions of acres farmed in Arizona less than half is dedicated to the food that ends up directly on our dinner plate while a whole lot more of the […]
Read More Can Kicking Over— Hard Part is HereNevada Lithium Miner Days
Nevada can be tough as a stubborn burro, even the good souls have to fend off the demon temptation to go bad.
Read More Nevada Lithium Miner DaysTight as a Tick Dry as a Bone
If you are living in San Francisco, don’t have a car, rent an apartment, don’t have a garden, haven’t got out on a road trip, then it is likely the 20-year drought gripping the American West may well have gone unnoticed. If on the other hand you are Max Gomberg the Director over at the […]
Read More Tight as a Tick Dry as a BoneThe Living Breathing Heart of Summer
rumor has it that the bikini and martini are equally intoxicating—
Read More The Living Breathing Heart of SummerDusty Days on the Klamath
North of Yreka the Klamath River passes beneath Interstate 5 while flowing west through the Siskiyou’s to the Pacific Ocean. Over the last two decades the megadrought has pummeled the region. For 13 of the last 20 years the governors of Oregon have declared a drought emergency east of where I am standing in the […]
Read More Dusty Days on the KlamathRehearsals with Jennifer Lawrence
—what we can pin down and know for certain is written down on a short list—
Read More Rehearsals with Jennifer Lawrence