This company is trying to drain an aquifer in the Mojave Desert

Kate and Aaron talk to Chris Clarke, host of the 90 Miles from Needles podcast, about the Cadiz pipeline project, a water mining project that poses a huge threat to the Mojave Desert. This project has been around in some form or another for over four decades and the latest iteration is especially insidious.

News

• Stopping Cadiz is good for people, the environment and our water future – Desert Sun
  Biden administration finalizes Rock Springs Plan without further changes – WyoFile
• BLM nixes Trump-era highway in Utah tortoise preserve – E&E News
• Interior Department Finalizes Framework for Future of Solar Development on Public Lands – Interior Department

Resources

• Protect Chuckwalla National Monument
• Protect Medicine Lake Highlands (Sáttítla)
• Protect the Owyhee
• Protect Caja del Rio
• Protect the Dolores
• Episode transcript

Credits

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss

Feedback: podcast@westernpriorities.org

Music: Purple Planet

Featured image: Cadiz Dunes, Mojave Trails National Monument; Source: Bob Wick/BLM

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