Foundation Seeks Insightful Writer to Join Our Journalism Team and Cover West’s Most Important Natural Resource – Water
Our latest Western Water article examines how drought & climate change in the Colorado River Basin threaten to upend collaborative efforts to equitably share a shrinking river
We’re looking for a special kind of
writer to join our team who is eager to produce the kinds of
insightful and challenging stories we pursue, such as
our latest Western Water article on how
drought and climate change are threatening to upend collaboration
in the Colorado River Basin.
Are you a journalist enthralled by the history, policy and science behind Western water issues? Then you might be just the right person to join our team. We’re looking for a full-time writer who is deeply knowledgeable about the West’s most precious natural resource in California and the Colorado River Basin, enjoys a fast-paced environment and possesses strong multimedia skills. Learn more about the job here.
You would be a key writer for an array of publications, including Western Water, our online news magazine. Western Water routinely delves into a variety of water resource issues in California and the Colorado River Basin, ranging from how climate change is fueling efforts to restore Central Valley floodplains to efforts now underway to address water and environmental challenges at the Salton Sea.
Our most recent article is an in-depth examination of how impacts from climate change and two decades of drought on the Colorado River are fueling fears that states in the upper watershed could be forced to curtail their own water use to fulfill downstream obligations under the century-old Colorado River Compact.
The article explores whether the states and water interests, drawing on decades of sometimes difficult collaboration, can avert a river war that ends up in court. It’s no small matter for a river that serves water to 40 million people from Denver to Los Angeles and irrigates more than 4 million acres of crops.
Western Water has been providing in-depth coverage of water resource issues in California and the West since 1977 — first as a print magazine and now published entirely online. The Foundation’s journalists — Jenn Bowles, who serves as executive editor of Western Water, and editor Doug Beeman — bring deep experience covering natural resources in California and the West.
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