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Imperio hidráulico

Compartir un legado y esculpir un futuro para el río Colorado

Por Allen Best

January 2019, Spanish

  Durante seis siglos, un pueblo llamado Hohokam habitó en el centro de Arizona. Entre muchos otros logros, crearon una especie de imperio hidráulico, como una telaraña de canales que debían llevar agua de los ríos Gila y Salado, afluentes del poderoso Colorado, hasta sus tierras agrícolas. Con el tiempo, los hohokam abandonaron sus campos […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Economic Development, Environment, Infrastructure, Urbanization, Water

January 2019, Spanish

  Durante seis siglos, un pueblo llamado Hohokam habitó en el centro de Arizona. Entre muchos otros logros, crearon una especie de imperio hidráulico, como una telaraña de canales que debían llevar agua de los ríos Gila y Salado, afluentes del poderoso Colorado, hasta sus tierras agrícolas. Con el tiempo, los hohokam abandonaron sus campos […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Economic Development, Environment, Infrastructure, Urbanization, Water

Más allá de la sequía

La búsqueda de soluciones ante el impacto climático sobre un río legendario

Por Matt Jenkins

January 2019, Spanish

  Ya pasaron diecinueve años, pero la sequía sigue azotando la cuenca del río Colorado a niveles nunca vistos. Hoy, se reconoce que la llamada “Sequía del Milenio” fue la peor del siglo pasado. En las paredes rocosas que bordean la represa Hoover y el lago Mead, que la antecede, la pronunciada sequía se detecta […]

Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure, Urbanization, Water

January 2019, Spanish

  Ya pasaron diecinueve años, pero la sequía sigue azotando la cuenca del río Colorado a niveles nunca vistos. Hoy, se reconoce que la llamada “Sequía del Milenio” fue la peor del siglo pasado. En las paredes rocosas que bordean la represa Hoover y el lago Mead, que la antecede, la pronunciada sequía se detecta […]

Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure, Urbanization, Water

Crecer con la corriente

Cómo integran agua y suelo los planificadores de dos ciudades del oeste

Por Kathleen McCormick

January 2019, Spanish

  En 2007, cuando Bradley Hill llegó a Flagstaff, Arizona, para ser el primer gerente de agua, la ciudad desértica alta había dedicado décadas a asegurarse un suministro de agua sostenible para la población, que aumentaba. Pero enseguida notó que faltaba un eslabón: “El grupo de planificación y el de agua no hablaban entre sí”, […]

City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Infrastructure, Water

January 2019, Spanish

  En 2007, cuando Bradley Hill llegó a Flagstaff, Arizona, para ser el primer gerente de agua, la ciudad desértica alta había dedicado décadas a asegurarse un suministro de agua sostenible para la población, que aumentaba. Pero enseguida notó que faltaba un eslabón: “El grupo de planificación y el de agua no hablaban entre sí”, […]

City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Infrastructure, Water

Base de datos de lugares

Cambio porcentual en la población de la cuenca del río Colorado, 2000 a 2016

Por Jenna DeAngelo

January 2019, Spanish

  La cuenca del río Colorado incluye a cuatro de los estados con mayor crecimiento del país: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada y Utah. Los siete estados de la cuenca proyectan fuertes crecimientos en su población en la siguiente década, lo cual presiona a un sistema fluvial que ya está sobreasignado. La conservación del agua, los acuerdos […]

Technology and Tools, Urbanization, Water

January 2019, Spanish

  La cuenca del río Colorado incluye a cuatro de los estados con mayor crecimiento del país: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada y Utah. Los siete estados de la cuenca proyectan fuertes crecimientos en su población en la siguiente década, lo cual presiona a un sistema fluvial que ya está sobreasignado. La conservación del agua, los acuerdos […]

Technology and Tools, Urbanization, Water

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Scenario Planning

Consortium for Scenario Planning Announces Winners of RFP for Impactful Projects

By Emma Zehner

January 2019, English

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Consortium for Scenario Planning, an initiative of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, has announced the selection of four projects that will work to advance the state of scenario planning, a practice by which communities and regions can make better decisions about the future by incorporating data and diverse stakeholder input. […]

City and Regional Planning

January 2019, English

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Consortium for Scenario Planning, an initiative of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, has announced the selection of four projects that will work to advance the state of scenario planning, a practice by which communities and regions can make better decisions about the future by incorporating data and diverse stakeholder input. […]

City and Regional Planning

Aerial view of a fishing boat stranded on a brown and dried up Colorado River Delta.

Beyond Drought

The Search for Solutions as Climate Impacts a Legendary River

By Matt Jenkins

January 2019, English

  Nineteen years after it began, a record-setting drought is still choking the Colorado River Basin. The so-called “Millennium Drought” is now recognized as the worst of the past century. On the rocky walls that hem in Hoover Dam and Lake Mead behind it, the deepening drought can be plainly seen in scaly white “bathtub” […]

Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure, Urbanization, Water

January 2019, English

  Nineteen years after it began, a record-setting drought is still choking the Colorado River Basin. The so-called “Millennium Drought” is now recognized as the worst of the past century. On the rocky walls that hem in Hoover Dam and Lake Mead behind it, the deepening drought can be plainly seen in scaly white “bathtub” […]

Climate Change, Environment, Infrastructure, Urbanization, Water

A man in a dress shirt stants to the side of a map showing the topography and geography of the Western United States.

Colorado River Reflections

An Interview with Bruce Babbitt

By Jim Holway

January 2019, English

  Bruce Babbitt has been a leader on western land and water policy for nearly half a century. He served as Arizona attorney general from 1975 to 1978, Arizona governor from 1978 to 1987, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001. Secretary Babbitt, the namesake of the Babbitt Center for Land and […]

Climate Change, Environment, Local Government, Water

January 2019, English

  Bruce Babbitt has been a leader on western land and water policy for nearly half a century. He served as Arizona attorney general from 1975 to 1978, Arizona governor from 1978 to 1987, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001. Secretary Babbitt, the namesake of the Babbitt Center for Land and […]

Climate Change, Environment, Local Government, Water

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President’s Message

Where the Water Meets the Land

By George W. McCarthy

January 2019, English

  Four years ago, I found myself in an airplane above the Colorado Delta with Katie Lincoln, our board chair. From our shared vantage point, we could see miles and miles of dry and dusty river sediment and scarce vegetation. It was a stunning, vast, otherworldly landscape, painted with a thousand shades of beige. On […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Water

January 2019, English

  Four years ago, I found myself in an airplane above the Colorado Delta with Katie Lincoln, our board chair. From our shared vantage point, we could see miles and miles of dry and dusty river sediment and scarce vegetation. It was a stunning, vast, otherworldly landscape, painted with a thousand shades of beige. On […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation, Water