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Part two: November – December 2021
Tapped Out: Power & water in the rural West is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. The project was made possible by a grant from the Water Foundation with additional support from INN and the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ).
Small farmers struggle as ag titans wheel water for profit
By Lois Henry
SJV Water & CCIJ
November 21, 2021
By Jessica Fu
The Counter
November 23, 2021
Record-breaking drought along the Wasatch Front forces tough decisions about water supply.
By Brett Walton
Circle of Blue
November 29, 2021
With farms, ranches and rural communities facing unprecedented threats, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
By Eli Francovich
Columbia Insight
Dcember 6, 2021
By Michael Elizabeth Sakas
Colorado Public Radio
December 7, 2021
Agribusiness and its proponents say repairs will benefit disadvantaged towns. Those residents disagree.
By Theo Whitcomb
High Country News
December 8, 2021
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett
California Health Report
December 14, 2021
By Elizabeth Miller
New Mexico in Depth
December 15, 2021
Part one: May 2021
Tapped Out: Power, justice & water in the West is a collection of stories around power, justice and water in the West. It was made possible by a grant from The Water Desk, with support from Ensia and INN’s Amplify News Project.
These stories are part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Columbia Insight, Ensia, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water.
A monitoring program tracks toxic cyanobacteria and influences change.
By Brett Walton
Circle of Blue
May 3, 2021
Toxic blooms are a public health risk and increase water treatment costs.
By Brett Walton
Circle of Blue
May 4, 2021
The tiny town of El Adobe exemplifies the state’s struggles with contaminated water and aging infrastructure.
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett
May 5, 2021
An environmental coalition is lobbying for a moratorium on mega-dairies, which have proliferated in a water-challenged area of northeastern Oregon.
By Dawn Stover
May 6, 2021
By Elizabeth Miller
New Mexico In Depth
May 7, 2021
The Gila River Indian Community is restoring its “lifeblood” back through innovative partnerships and water exchanges.
By Sharon Udasin
May 13, 2021
The very ground upon which Corcoran, Calif., was built has been slowly but steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily not by nature but agriculture.
By Lois Henry
May 25, 2021