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  • Link Between PCE In Drinking Water And An Increased Risk Of Mental Illness

    Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News From Medical News Today
    22 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    PCE in drinking water linked to an increased risk of mental illness The solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) widely used in industry and to dry clean clothes is a neurotoxin known to cause mood changes, anxiety, and depression in people who work with it...

  • How seawater could corrode nuclear fuel

    ScienceDaily: Water Conservation News
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:21 pm
    Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, say experts. But researchers have since discovered a new way in which seawater can corrode nuclear fuel, forming uranium compounds that could potentially travel long distances, either in solution or as very small particles.

  • Commenting on the unspeakable

    Chance of Rain
    EmilyGreen
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:18 pm
    Five years ago, when asked about a plan by Las Vegas to pump groundwater around the Great Basin National Park, Nevadan hydrologists who learned that I was a reporter based in Southern California used to respond, “If you think that’s bad, you should look at Cadiz.” Nevadans live to insult Californians, but it was said so many times by so many hydrologists that roughly two-and-a-half years ago, I started looking at this worse-than-Vegas Cadiz. It wasn’t the Spanish port, but a little-known unincorporated pocket of the Californian Mojave just visible in the upper right…

  • The Stream, January 26: The Shale Boom and the Economy

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    Nadya Ivanova
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    The International Energy Agency will make shale gas recommendations in its upcoming global energy report this fall, Financial Post reported. U.S. Shale Boom U.S. President Barack Obama pushed support for shale gas drilling and clean energy technology in his State of the Union address. Bloomberg gives the highlights. Meanwhile, North Dakota’s shale oil boom has sent the state’s economy rocketing, but it’s also pushing rural housing, electric, water, police and emergency services to the breaking point, Bloomberg reported. Climate and Weather A NASA video shows 131 years of…

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Colorado’s New Fracking Rules

    We All Live Downstream
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    4 Jan 2012 | 9:17 am
    By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This piece first appeared on the Huffington Post First, the good: A few weeks ago, the State of Colorado passed the strongest rules in the United States for publicly disclosing what cancer-causing and other types chemicals are used in oil and gas fracking. In a ground-breaking and intense set of negotiations between oil and gas companies and environmentalists, frackers are now forced to publicly disclose when they are fracking and what chemicals they use in fracking. This disclosure gets at two very serious concerns posed by fracking: 1) when…
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  • Asthma Rates And Costs Rise Due To Traffic Pollution

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    An international study of asthma, published in the early online version of the European Respiratory Journal, has for the first time, included the number of incidents caused by air pollution and shows that the costs for childhood asthma have risen sharply...

  • Viruses That Con Bacteria With Helping Hand

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Scientists studying ocean microorganisms have encountered something they have never seen before. A marine virus that cons certain photosynthetic bacteria into letting it come inside because it appears to offer a "helping hand" by bringing resources very like their own to help them acquire phosphorus, a nutrient they are desperately short of...

  • Experts Warn Cost Of Asthma Caused By Traffic-Related Air Pollution Is Much Higher Than Previous Estimates

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    The total cost of asthma due to traffic-related air pollution is much higher than previous estimates, according to new research. The study, published online ahead of print in the European Respiratory Journal, has revealed the true extent of the healthcare costs associated with living close to a busy road...

  • Extracellular Matrix Identified As Source Of Spreading In Biofilms

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    New research at Harvard explains how bacterial biofilms expand to form slimy mats on teeth, pipes, surgical instruments, and crops. Through experiment and mathematical analysis, researchers have shown that the extracellular matrix (ECM), a mesh of proteins and sugars that can form outside bacterial cells, creates osmotic pressure that forces biofilms to swell and spread...

  • Link Between PCE In Drinking Water And An Increased Risk Of Mental Illness

    22 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    PCE in drinking water linked to an increased risk of mental illness The solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) widely used in industry and to dry clean clothes is a neurotoxin known to cause mood changes, anxiety, and depression in people who work with it...
 
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    Circle of Blue WaterNews

  • Visions of Solar Energy’s Future Compete in Colorado’s San Luis Valley

    Brett Walton
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:05 am
    The U.S. government is in the process of designating more than 6,000 hectares of federal land in the nation’s highest agricultural region for solar energy development. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue In December, Portland, Ore.-based, Iberdrola Renewables began generating electricity at its 30-MW facility in Alamosa County. The 89-hectare (220-acre) site used to be farmland, but now it holds roughly 110,000 silicon panels. By Brett Walton Circle of Blue SAN LUIS VALLEY, Colorado — Just as in every address that he has made to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama…

  • The Stream, January 27: Water Pollution Strikes Chinese River

    Codi Yeager
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Levels of cadmium, a carcinogen, measured 20 percent higher than the official limit in China’s Longjiang River, Xinhua reported. The pollution, which may have been caused by mining, spurred a rush to buy bottled water amid fears of drinking water contamination. Weather Extremes Floods killed 6 people in Fiji and displaced 3,500 following heavy rains, according to UPI. The government declared a state of emergency in parts of Viti Levu, Fiji’s biggest island. Coffee yields in Mexico are expected to increase eight percent this year, despite a record drought that is costing the…

  • The Stream, January 26: The Shale Boom and the Economy

    Nadya Ivanova
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    The International Energy Agency will make shale gas recommendations in its upcoming global energy report this fall, Financial Post reported. U.S. Shale Boom U.S. President Barack Obama pushed support for shale gas drilling and clean energy technology in his State of the Union address. Bloomberg gives the highlights. Meanwhile, North Dakota’s shale oil boom has sent the state’s economy rocketing, but it’s also pushing rural housing, electric, water, police and emergency services to the breaking point, Bloomberg reported. Climate and Weather A NASA video shows 131 years of…

  • State of the Union: New Economics of Energy Production Tilts Obama’s “All-of-the-Above” Strategy One Way

    Keith Schneider
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:50 pm
    In the era of deficit and disinvestment, water-intensive fossil fuel production is overwhelming the water-sipping clean energy sector. Photo © Keith Schneider/Circle of Blue Domestic production of oil and natural gas is now climbing rapidly, due in part to drilling from rigs like this one in North Dakota. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue Four years ago, when he campaigned for the office he now holds, Barack Obama described the urgent need to pursue clean energy development because of a grave and persistent problem: demand and prices for oil were rising, along with national and economic…

  • Peter Gleick: Mining California Groundwater – The Cadiz Project

    Dr. Peter Gleick
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:37 pm
    A private company, Cadiz Inc. (Cadiz), has revived plans to mine groundwater underlying land in the delicate Eastern Mojave Desert. This project revives fundamental questions about how we manage our precious water resources, and in particular, whether in the 21st century it is appropriate, or even necessary, to use renewable water resources in a nonrenewable and unsustainable way, for short-term profit. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Peter Gleick is president of the Pacific Institute, an internationally recognized water expert and a MacArthur Fellow. Read his full bio… The idea for the Cadiz…
 
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    ScienceDaily: Water Conservation News

  • What really happened prior to 'Snowball Earth'?

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm
    The large changes in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonates which occurred prior to the major climatic event more than 500 million years ago, known as "Snowball Earth," are unrelated to worldwide glacial events, a new study suggests.

  • How seawater could corrode nuclear fuel

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:21 pm
    Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, say experts. But researchers have since discovered a new way in which seawater can corrode nuclear fuel, forming uranium compounds that could potentially travel long distances, either in solution or as very small particles.

  • Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Discoveries made in some underwater caves by researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perhaps give hints of what types of marine life could be found on distant planets and moons.

  • Microbubbles provide new boost for biofuel production

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:25 am
    A solution to the difficult issue of harvesting algae for use as a biofuel has been developed using microbubble technology.

  • Coastal storms have long-reaching effects, study says

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:23 pm
    Coastal storms are known to cause serious damage along the shoreline, but they also cause significant disruption of the deep-sea ecosystem as well.
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  • Resilience: An approach on cope with climate change

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:58 am
    In a review of its humanitarian operations (HERR), the UK government was among the first donors to place resilience at the centre of its "approach both to longer-term development and to emergency response" and announced its intention to scale-up work on resilience.6 Vote(s)

  • Use and Abuse of the Mississippi River Basin

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:18 pm
    Excess fertilizer that runs off farm fields can encourage algal blooms in waterways.8 Vote(s)

  • Study Links Rising Ocean Acidification to CO2 Emissions

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:31 pm
    Earth's oceans may be an inconceivably vast ecosystem home to countless species yet unknown to science, but a new study reaffirms that they too are susceptible to the damaging impact of carbon emissions released by humans. According to researchers from the University of Hawaii, ocean acidity levels in some regions have spiked more quickly in the last 200 years than in the preceding 21 thousand ye6 Vote(s)

  • Climate Change and Farming: How Not to Go Hungry in a Warmer World

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Climate change might hit us in the most vital place of all - the dinner plate. Why do we care about climate change? Obviously we worry about what warming temperatures might do to the geography of the planet - particularly melting polar ice and raising global sea levels. We fear the impact that climate change could have on endangered species, as warming temperatures speed the already rapid pace of7 Vote(s)

  • Beijing releases pollution data; US figures higher!

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:53 am
    It is the first time Beijing has publicly revealed PM2.5 data and follows a clamor of calls by citizens on social networking sites tired of breathing in gray and yellow air. The U.S. Embassy measures PM2.5 from a device on its rooftop and releases the results, and some residents have even tested the air around their neighborhoods and posted the results online.6 Vote(s)
 
 
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    On Water

  • Dam News: 24-25 January 2012

    miadocto
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:44 pm
    “Dam news” is a round-up of news and events related to dams and dam removal, brought to you by the Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI), a project administered by the Water Resources Collections and Archives. Visit CDRI for more on dams and dam removal. Bear-ing Up So Far Mail Tribune – ‎Jan 25, 2012 “Things aren’t looking too bad right now, but we still haven’t had a major test,” says the RVCOG’s Craig Tuss, who is overseeing rehabilitation efforts of stream banks exposed by the dam’s removal. “I’d say the jury is…

  • Dam News: 19-22 January 2012

    miadocto
    22 Jan 2012 | 3:08 pm
    “Dam news” is a round-up of news and events related to dams and dam removal, brought to you by the Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI), a project administered by the Water Resources Collections and Archives. Visit CDRI for more on dams and dam removal. Franklin to Detail How Dam Will Be Destroyed The Tennessean – ‎Jan 22, 2012 The city, which buys much of its drinking water from the Harpeth Valley Utilities District, built the dam so it could draw water, which it still plans to do.   Explosion Set for One of Elwha Dams Today Peninsula Daily – ‎Jan 22,…

  • Dam News: 10-13 January 2012

    miadocto
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:51 am
    “Dam news” is a round-up of news and events related to dams and dam removal, brought to you by the Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI), a project administered by the Water Resources Collections and Archives. Visit CDRI for more on dams and dam removal. Klamath Dams: Surcharge Rolled Out Siskiyou Daily News – ‎Jan 13, 2012‎ Pacific Power customers in Northern California will begin seeing the company’s new dam removal surcharge on their bills, a press release from the utility company announced.   Dam Removal Changes White Salmon River Landscape Seattle…

  • Dam News: 5-6 January 2012

    miadocto
    6 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pm
    “Dam news” is a round-up of news and events related to dams and dam removal, brought to you by the Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI), a project administered by the Water Resources Collections and Archives. Visit CDRI for more on dams and dam removal. — Embry Dam’s Removal Proves to be Boon for Smaller Eels The Chesapeake Bay Journal – ‎ Jan 6, 2012 Ironically, the primary beneficiaries of the Embry Dam removal were expected to be other migratory fish such as shad and river herring.   Dam Demolition Now the Preferred Method for Creating Fish Passages…

  • Dam News: 19-29 December 2011

    miadocto
    6 Jan 2012 | 12:35 pm
    “Dam news” is a round-up of news and events related to dams and dam removal, brought to you by the Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI), a project administered by the Water Resources Collections and Archives. Visit CDRI for more on dams and dam removal. Grand River forum stuck on Sixth Street Dam Removal MLive.com – ‎Dec 29, 2011‎ By Ron Cammel | The Grand Rapids Press PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP – When talk of removing the Sixth Street Dam continued at length, the leader of a meeting on the Grand River Assessment reminded the audience that the 800-page document is…
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    Water - Use It Wisely

  • Upcoming Training Makes Landscape Professionals Smart about How They Use Water

    admin
    12 Jan 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Smartscape offers green jobs training at affordable price, helps professionals stay on leading edge of landscape industry saving clients water, money, and time In a tough economy, one way to stay ahead of the competition is to stay up-to-date on the latest trends, research, and practices in the industry for which you work. For the landscaping business, this is especially true. As the housing market remains stalled, new landscape installations and maintenance accounts are often hard to come by, and competition for customers is fierce. Therefore, programs that provide continuing education and…

  • Arizona Republic Opinion Piece Resonates!

    Donna DiFrancesco, City of Mesa
    4 Jan 2012 | 7:39 pm
    Water – Use It Wisely partners were pleased to see a Jan. 1, 2012 opinion piece in The Arizona Republic that included a challenge to look at our Arizona assets and figure out how to maximize them for the New Year. The list includes our “water supplies” and our “striking desert plants” amongst many of our other great Arizona resources. We couldn’t agree more! Check out our Water Saving Tip #61. Did you know that each low-water-use plant can save you up to 550 gallons a year? Hundreds of desert plants are available for just about any function in your landscape. Would you like to…

  • Look for the WaterSense Seal of Approval!

    Donna DiFrancesco, City of Mesa
    15 Dec 2011 | 5:24 pm
    December marks the time of the year when we start to focus on our homes, family gatherings and holiday gift giving. So consider purchasing a meaningful gift that literally keeps on giving by reducing water bills month after month. How do you find and select the best water-efficient products that can help your wallet and the environment? You might think to start with consumer reviews or a consumer magazine, but EPA has made your shopping even easier with their WaterSense Label program. WaterSense labeled products are backed by independent third party testing and certification, and meet…

  • WUIW on TV: Adjust Your Irrigation Timer

    admin
    23 Nov 2011 | 5:05 pm
    Here’s a great water saving tip: adjust your irrigation timer when the seasons change. Connie Speelman, from the Town of Queen Creek, one of our Arizona Regional Campaign Partners, explains to us that with cooler weather and lower evaporation rates, dialing your timer back is a good idea. For more information, watch her interview on “Your Life A to Z” on local Channel 3:

  • WUIW on TV: Container Gardening

    admin
    16 Nov 2011 | 6:42 pm
    What is container gardening? Raymond Rees, from the Town of Fountain Hills, otherwise known as one of our Arizona Regional Campaign Partners, tells us about how containers that we have lying around the house can be used to house plants that will accent your home, yard, balcony or anywhere you’d like to add a little pizzazz with plants. Here is his interview on “Your Life A to Z” on local Channel 3 where you can learn more: Stay tuned for the next segment of Water – Use It Wisely on TV!
 
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  • Survey Says! Seven Minutes of Your Time for Data

    Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:36 am
    Kaveh Madani, who Tweets and created SISWEBS (Scientific Information Syndication WEBsite, which includes WaterSISWEB) and Daene McKinney have asked me to post this. They have designed a short survey about data whose results will be reported at the upcoming Sixth World Water Forum. You can read a longer blog post about the reason for the survey or go directly to the [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 14-20 January 2012 (AWRA Day!)

    Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
    20 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    That time of the week again – Friday water displascement behavior! And I got this out nice and early so that many of you can enjoy a full day of checking out the previous week’s water news! I’m enjoying the Dulles Airport environs attending my last winter board meeting of AWRA today and tomorrow. So click [...] Related posts:Weekly Water News Summary, 31 December 2011 – 6 January 2012 Time again for the Friday feature – “TGIF: Tweets Galore,... TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 7-13 January 2012 (Triskaidekaphobia Day!) Triskaidekaphobia special! There are…

  • Sneak Preview: JAWRA February 2012

    Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
    16 Jan 2012 | 3:40 pm
    Here are some items from the JAWRA blog by Editor Ken Lanfear. He provides early views of eight papers from the February 2012 issue of JAWRA. Click on the post title next to the number to view his post for that article, in which he summarizes the article and provides access to the abstract (free) and paper (for a [...] Related posts:JAWRA December 2011 Highlights HIGHLIGHTS – JAWRA DECEMBER 2011 Miller and Piechota investigated 398... JAWRA August 2011 Highlights JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association The Journal... JAWRA April 2011 Highlights JAWRA Journal of the…

  • TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 7-13 January 2012 (Triskaidekaphobia Day!)

    Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
    13 Jan 2012 | 12:05 pm
    Triskaidekaphobia special! There are actually two more Friday the 13ths this year: 13 April and 13 July. Rare! But that makes sense; after all, 2012 is the predicted end of the world. In any event, it’s not a good year for those who suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia —fear of Friday the 13th. Enjoy some water displacement behavior – [...] Related posts:Weekly Water News Summary, 31 December 2011 – 6 January 2012 Time again for the Friday feature – “TGIF: Tweets Galore,... January 2012 AWRA President’s Message There is nothing like a few days in the Utah...

  • Weekly Water News Summary, 31 December 2011 – 6 January 2012

    Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
    6 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am
    Time again for the Friday feature – “TGIF: Tweets Galore, It’s Friday!”. I have retitled the post so that it is more descriptive. Some readers were confused by the previous title, which said nothing about a weekly news summary. So at the risk of making this a bit duller I have erred on the side [...] Related posts:TGIF – Tweets Galore! It’s Friday, 16 December 2011 – Special ‘The Scream’ Edition! I’ve been late getting the last several TGIF posts out... January 2012 AWRA President’s Message There is nothing like a few days in the…
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    On the Water Front

  • Blue sky blues after a very dry December

    Spreck Rosekrans
    5 Jan 2012 | 7:47 pm
    By Spreck RosekransSpreck Rosekrans is an Economic Analyst at EDF After a dry December, Californians are starting to worry about this year’s water supply. While we are fortunate that last year’s steady and extended precipitation has left our reservoirs and aquifers in relatively good shape, there are questions about what weather lies ahead. Beautiful blue skies can bring the blues. In winter, skiers lament that mountain tops are barren of snow. But the threat of impending drought looms large for all Californians as well as for our fish and wildlife. Certainly, a dry December does not…

  • Since we’re neighbors let's be friends (EBMUD and CCWD)

    Spreck Rosekrans
    13 Dec 2011 | 11:23 am
    By Spreck RosekransSpreck Rosekrans is an Economic Analyst at EDF Since we’re neighbors let's be friends. This old Safeway jingle comes to mind in the wake of the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s decision to withdraw its plans to expand Pardee Reservoir, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California, and to work instead with neighboring Contra Costa Water District. Expanding Pardee would have buried a beautiful stretch of the Mokelumne River that is a popular recreation area for boaters (myself included) and others in the nearby foothill communities. Instead the East Bay…

  • Groundwater: Too Big To Fail

    Spreck Rosekrans
    28 Jul 2011 | 3:06 pm
    By Spreck RosekransSpreck Rosekrans is an Economic Analyst at EDF As The New York Times pointed out yesterday, not everyone is happy with the development and operation of California’s groundwater banks. Lawsuits in Kern County, the site of the largest water storage investments in California over the last 20 years by a wide margin, illustrate some of the complex issues associated with sharing aquifers. Most of this dispute is over accounting. The many adjacent projects in Kern are very clear about land ownership but are far less clear about how much each has recharged the groundwater table…

  • Delta exports projected to reach record level in 2011

    Spreck Rosekrans
    15 Jul 2011 | 1:53 pm
    By Spreck RosekransSpreck Rosekrans is an Economic Analyst at EDF Exports from the Bay-Delta may reach an all-time high in 2011. Through July 15, pumping for the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project has totaled 4.86 million acre-feet. With ample supplies in northern reservoirs and Sierra rivers still full of melting snow, it is likely that the pumps will continue to run at or near capacity through the end of the water year (September 30). As shown in Figure 1, the annual export total is projected to reach 6,610,000 acre-feet – 140,000 acre-feet more than the previous…

  • Metropolitan’s neutrality on water bill puts long-term supply at risk

    Spreck Rosekrans
    7 Jul 2011 | 3:36 pm
    By Spreck RosekransSpreck Rosekrans is an Economic Analyst at EDF You would expect the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to oppose any legislation that could destroy the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and thereby leave the State Water Project vulnerable to catastrophic collapse of the delta’s notoriously fragile levees. Unfortunately, Metropolitan is oddly “neutral” on a high stakes water bill, the “San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act” (H.R. 1837)– on which the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to vote next…
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  • When No Means Yes

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:06 am
    Michigan Policy Director Susan Harley is joined by Clean Water Heroes for the release of our Midterm Legislative Scorecard By Cyndi Roper, Michigan State Director If you were a Lansing lawmaker with a perfect environmental voting record in 2011, you were voting no.  With a state House majority firmly in control of the legislative agenda, the opportunity to support good environmental protections simply didn’t happen last year.  So the ticket to getting 100% on Clean Water Action’s Midterm Scorecard released today was opposing bad environmental legislation, which is what dominated the…

  • Philadelphia Eagles are the leading Green Team

    admin
    11 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pm
    By Colleen Meehan, Pennsylvania Program Organizer Eagles Fans for PA's Forests! On December 18th, Clean Water Action staff served as the Community Partner for the Philadelphia Eagles home game against the New York Jets. The Eagles recognized our work raising public awareness about threats to public health and the importance of our person-to-person approach to public education. So, we wondered, what could we do that would both advance our goals and make a fun, quick way of interacting with Eagles fans on game day. When in doubt, resort to arts and crafts. We wanted to give Eagles fans a…

  • What’s in Store for 2012?

    admin
    4 Jan 2012 | 11:38 am
    By Lynn Thorp, National Programs Director On the first day back after the New Year, with 2011 and all the resolution making behind us, I wondered what would be in store for our work in 2012.  If yesterday’s Washington Post is any indication, maybe we’ll find a renewed understanding of the critical need to protect public health and natural resources. On the front page, above the fold, we learned that our nation’s public water systems and waste water systems  need to upgrade and replace our water infrastructure to the tune of over $300 billion.  That’s a tough reality to accept, but…

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Colorado’s New Fracking Rules

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    4 Jan 2012 | 9:17 am
    By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This piece first appeared on the Huffington Post First, the good: A few weeks ago, the State of Colorado passed the strongest rules in the United States for publicly disclosing what cancer-causing and other types chemicals are used in oil and gas fracking. In a ground-breaking and intense set of negotiations between oil and gas companies and environmentalists, frackers are now forced to publicly disclose when they are fracking and what chemicals they use in fracking. This disclosure gets at two very serious concerns posed by fracking: 1) when…

  • Dandelions for Kids

    admin
    21 Dec 2011 | 12:37 pm
    By Kerry Doyle, NJ Environmental Federation Community Organizer Kerry organizes communities Monday through Friday year-round (in every type of weather) doing door-to-door environmental education and fundraising campaigns. She has been with the organization for seven years – her unrelenting dedication to helping protect the environment and public health is remarkable and has touched the lives of many. It’s December, and I just saw lightning. At first, I thought it was the strobing LED peppermint candy Christmas lights, but then I got a text message from a trainee: “Kerry, what do…
 
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  • Hope rises for clouds on horizon

    Editor
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:53 am
    By Alex Breitler STOCKTON - There they were Friday, three little words in next week's weather forecast: "Chance of rain." Stockton should be nearing the end of a historic dry spell that blessed us with short-sleeve afternoons, but also mucked up air quality, killed grass needed to sustain cattle and compelled farmers to ask for unprecedented water deliveries in the middle of what should be the wettest month of the year. Today marks 30 days since measurable rain fell in the city. When the streak ends - next Thursday, if current forecasts prove true - it will be the second-longest…

  • SSJID may one day serve farms north of FC Road

    Editor
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:28 am
    By Dennis Wyatt - dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com 209-249-3519       Some 7,000 acres of farmland north of French Camp Road and east of Highway 99 could one day be served by South San Joaquin Irrigation District with both water and retail electricity. That possibility is being raised by the staff of the San Joaquin County Local Agency Formation Commission as part of a municipal services review plan being processed as a precursor for the district to possibly secure approval to pursue acquisition of PG&E’s retail power system. The area is sort of a…

  • Check out this case concering an irrigation district!

    Editor
    5 Jan 2012 | 12:06 pm
    PICCININI v. OAKDALE IRRIGATION DISTRICT JONATHAN PICCININI et al., Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants, v. OAKDALE IRRIGATION DISTRICT, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent. No. F060990. Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District. Filed January 4, 2012. Mayol & Barringer, Bart Barringer; Law Offices of Michael Abbott and Michael L. Abbott for Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants. O'Laughlin & Paris, William C. Paris III and Katie J. Shea for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.    NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS OPINION…

  • Water district's power proposal gets a boost

    Editor
    3 Dec 2011 | 4:49 pm
    By Alex Breitler/Record Staff Writer MANTECA - A water district's plan to oust Pacific Gas and Electric Co. as the south county's electrical provider is economically feasible, according to a new independent report. The municipal services review and an accompanying draft environmental impact report signal the start of the next round of an ongoing feud between the South San Joaquin Irrigation District and PG&E, which have battled eight years for the right to serve homes and businesses in Manteca, Ripon and Escalon. The latest report, written for the San Joaquin Local Agency…

  • PG&E water tests may be examined

    Editor
    8 Nov 2011 | 11:22 am
    By Steve Johnson - sjohnson@mercurynews.com Latest headlines, original coverage, images and videosThe rupture of a PG&E pipe during a test Sunday, causing a mudslide that shut down part of Interstate 280, raises questions about whether future tests should be modified and if the burst gas line -- the same one that exploded in San Bruno in 2010 -- needs more scrutiny, according to a top state regulator. In addition, a prominent Bay Area lawmaker said he wants Pacific Gas & Electric's records on another Peninsula pipeline to be carefully reviewed before the state agrees to boost its…
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  • TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 21-27 January 2012 (Florida Edition)

    Aquadoc
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:10 am
    That day of the week again -Friday, time for last week's water news via my Twitter feeds. It's not the Florida Edition because of the Republican presidential primary, but because after all the rain in the PNW I'm ready for some Florida sunshine. Yeah, that's a picture of me in...

  • Rappin', Bloggin', and More from the Great White North: Okanagan Basin Water Board Blog

    Aquadoc
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:10 am
    I received an email from Anna Warwick Sears, Executive Director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board, to let me know about the OBWB's blog, Building Bridges, where she tries "...to explain to the educated public all the strange nuances and complexities of water policy and management." Amen, Anna! An unrepentant...

  • What's In a Word: Is the Word 'Sustainable' Unsustainable?

    Aquadoc
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:07 am
    From xkcd via Demian Ebert. One of my favorite quotes about the word 'sustainable' is from a former colleague of mine at the University of New Mexico, economist David Brookshire. Each time someone would use the word 'sustainable' (or 'sustainability'), he would sarcastically utter: "Which of the 32 definitions of...

  • Survey Says! Seven Minutes of Your Time for Data

    Aquadoc
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    Kaveh Madani, who Tweets and created SISWEBS (Scientific Information Syndication WEBsite, which includes WaterSISWEB) and Daene McKinney have asked me to post this. They have designed a short survey about data whose results will be reported at the upcoming Sixth World Water Forum. Dear Colleagues, We would like to bring...

  • For Whom the Pipe Toles: The Energy-Climate Conundrum

    Aquadoc
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:10 am
    Got this via Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog, originally from the inimitable Tom Toles. Read the blog comments, and also this Romm post from James Hansen last summer. Apologies to John Donne. "All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns...
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  • How do you value web based platforms?

    Peter van der Linde
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:12 am
    How do you measure the value online platforms provide? How do you justify investments? The work Stefan initiated last summer sparked discussions with our board, funders, accountants and several of our key partners. Recently, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs challenged me to come up with a strategic monitoring framework – that can be used to measure the value we provide to our partners. I have been drawn towards using a Balanced Scorecard, on the advice of the 1%club. I tweaked the standard set-up, and ended up with a version that is based around 5 perspectives. For each of these…

  • Akvo RSR user privileges – common questions

    Jo Pratt
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    In a recent hands-on Akvo Really Simple Reporting (RSR) training day in Bolivia, we were interested to find most questions were related to user hierarchies. The participants had all been using Akvo RSR for a few weeks, but were still unclear who was allowed to do what in terms of editing their projects, making updates and assigning privileges to other users. So I took the chance to pose some common questions to Akvo’s Thomas Bjelkeman-Petterson and Luuk Diphoorn on the thinking behind our user hierarchy. What were the key priorities you had in mind when you designed the user hierarchies…

  • Akvo – A day in the life. Tuesday 17 January 2012

    Mark Charmer
    18 Jan 2012 | 5:45 am
    We’ve been really busy since New Year, but seem to have all shared writers block when it comes to blog posts. So I figured it would be nice to get people around the Akvo staff to do quick 2 minute interviews with eachother about what they’re working on right now. Out of 16 people working yesterday we covered nine from Amsterdam and London, which isn’t bad going for something we decided we should try that morning. Next time, let’s collar some of the developers too. These were shot on Flips/Xactis so required a few minutes of editing each – maybe next time…

  • Internet censorship is wrong

    Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson
    18 Jan 2012 | 3:42 am
    Today is an important day, as it is the first major international internet protest against proposed legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), that will seriously threaten the internet as we know it today. The US government is considering making into law some proposals which supposedly are about stopping piracy online. However, this proposed legislation is so badly conceived that it threatens the internet as we know it, and we may end up with serious issues of censorship across the internet in a way which would seriously harm the way we use it today. There is a lot written about this, but…

  • Losing Gino

    Mark Charmer
    4 Jan 2012 | 8:53 am
    A few days ago we learned that Akvo’s creative director Gino Lee died shortly after Christmas. He’d been staying with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and died in his sleep. His death was very unexpected. There aren’t words to describe the loss and what Gino has meant as a friend and colleague. We will miss him sorely. His creative influence, sensitivity and wry yet gentle humour is infused in everything at Akvo. We’ll write a bit more about him and his incredible life when the time feels right. There will be a memorial event in San Francisco, where Gino lived, at…
 
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  • Host a Water Sunday?

    17 Jan 2012 | 6:35 am
    Last Fall, I had the opportunity to spend an afternoon at Water Missions' office tucked away behind a strip mall in Charleston, SC.  I had heard tales about this Christian engineering relief organization, but what I didn't know was that they had a real story to share.Our group spent the afternoon putting together essentially a rugged, self-contained miniature, water treatment plant that can treat about 10 gallons (38 liters) of water per minute from raw water sources. Much like an operating system for your computer, they have continued to perfect this innovative…

  • If I fail, the blog dies: A public challenge

    2 Jan 2012 | 11:21 am
    Happy New Year!  I am a sucker for new beginnings and fresh starts.  You can see where this is going, right?I have not written anything here since August. While it's easy to stop writing, my ideas on posts keep percolating. A curse I suppose.So why did I stop?  I could blame the standard excuse of not enough time or dedicating more time to work off an extra ten pounds, but I think really it was writer's block. Once I discovered more folks that were reading my stuff, the harder it was for me to write and balance my consulting career. Weird, huh.Blogging with frequency has been…

  • Drought's Doppler Radar: the Drought Monitor Uncovered.

    4 Aug 2011 | 7:22 am
    8:00 AM today, just like every Thursday morning since 1999, a map is posted online. This is no ordinary map. This map is the everyman's doppler radar for droughts; helping to show the complex nature of drought and its impacts in a simple way. This map is the Drought Monitor.Drought Monitor's origins can be traced to The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) which was founded in the mid 1990s at the University of Nebraska by Dr. Don Wilhite. NDMC approached NOAA with the idea of a regular product that would monitor drought for the United States. After some initial testing and…

  • Drought's Perfect Metaphor

    19 Jul 2011 | 5:17 am
    Droughts are like economic recessions. Right? They are both difficult to know when they both start and end. However, I think the economic metrics for defining a recession are more universally accepted than those used for drought. So, maybe this is not the perfect metaphor.I called our last major drought in the southeast a dreadnought, but a comparison to a dreadnought is so early 20th-century. I am pretty sure those battleships have become obsolete with anti-ship missiles skimming across the sea.So what is a better metaphor? Alex Prud'Homme, author of “The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh…

  • This Story Sucks! The Unknown Story of World's First Hydraulic Suction Dredge

    25 Apr 2011 | 6:00 am
    Prior to the first shots over Fort Sumter, South Carolina had over 120,000 acres of hydraulic water wonder land filled with ditches, pumps, and small diversion dams. Believe it or not, this land led in North American rice production from the 1600s through 1880s. If it wasn't for the millions of mosquitos, I am sure it would have been a sight to see. Out of this environment, came a radical invention that revolutionized the Port of Charleston and soon, other ports around the world.Shifting sands formed a shallow barrier to the Port of Charleston. In fact, the allowable draft on ships was…
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    Water News Portal

  • The water challenge – How ISO standards help

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:32 am
    ISO's solutions for addressing vital global water challenges are the subject of a new brochure, ISO & water. The four-page document provides a concise overview of International Standards available and how they can help. Although essential for life, water supplies are burdened by drought, water shortages, climate change, contamination and pollution, the requirements of large cities, intensive ir ... [more]

  • i2O Water helps Veolia Water save 1.5 million litres of water a day and nearly £100,000 a year in water wastage reduction

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:48 am
    i2O Water Ltd helps Veolia Water realise savings in excess of 1.5 million litres of water a day, nearly GBP100,000 a year, and improve customer service, following a successful roll out of i2O Water's integrated network monitoring system across 31 Veolia Water sites in the UK. Veolia Water, which provides water and wastewater management services throughout the UK, approached i2O in August 2010, fo ... [more]

  • Climate Change Minister encourages skills for the Green Deal and launches The Green Deal Skills Alliance

    24 Jan 2012 | 6:34 am
    Climate Change Minister Greg Barker recently launched a partnership to ensure the UK has the right skills to implement the Green Deal, the government's flagship policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. The Green Deal aims to enable private firms to offer consumers energy improvements to their homes, communities and businesses at no upfront cost and to recoup payments as a charge in ... [more]

  • Green tourism in Dusit Thani Maldives

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:21 am
    Founded in Bangkok in 1949, Dusit International is dedicated to sustainable tourism. A number of Dusit International hotels have attained the Silver Certified Award from EarthCheck, the leading environmental management program that sets benchmarks for the tourism industry. Dusit Thani Maldives will participate in the EarthCheck certification process and strives to attain carbon-neutral status in ... [more]

  • Eco-innovators UK recycling businesses will receive dedicated funds

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:19 am
    Following the launch of the new Eco-innovation Action Plan (EcoAP) by the EU, there are subsidies, training and funding available to businesses driving products, techniques, services or processes which are environmentally sound ? i.e. they aim at the prevention or reduction of environmental impacts or contribute to the optimal use of resources. Eco-innovators are expected to help reduce greenho ... [more]
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    Aguanomics

  • Friday party

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Win win?

  • Anything but water

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Great idea (from economists!) A Market Proposal for Saving Whales, i.e., replace a rhetorical/financial/logistical fight with a cap and trade system that allocates via price signals. Long life through exercise (instead of starvation): "A few anti-ageing zealots already subsist on near-starvation diets, but Dr Levine’s results suggest a similar effect might be gained in a much more agreeable way, via vigorous exercise." In related news, the mathematics and economics of vaccination (hint: foreign visitors complicate things) The personal network -- a "real friends" alternative to Facebook.

  • Tablets deliver the digital revolution to reading

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    I bought a tablet computer a few weeks ago (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1), and I've had some time to get used to it.* FYI, I didn't buy the iPad because it had fewer features and (big for me) I was not interested in getting locked into Apple's "walled garden." Here are a few notes: There's the awkward process of figuring out how to balance your "digital life" among several devices (I have a laptop, iPhone, iPod Nano and now this tablet). Looks like I am using the tablet more for casual internet browsing and emails and -- very important -- reading (more below). Android apps are definitely lagging…

  • Speaking at the Commonwealth Club (SF) Feb 1st

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm
    I'm speaking at noon at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on "California's water future," i.e., How should California manage its water in the future and which incentives will motivate the biggest changes in conservation and agricultural efficiency? Which water policies and practices have backfired? Join water economist David Zetland for a fresh perspective on how we can manage our most precious resource in the 21st century and what we can learn from past mistakes. I'll talk for 30-40 minutes and then take questions. It's $20 to get in (I don't get anything), $8 for CC members and $7 for…

  • Externalizing the internality

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Behavioral economists have a new twist on the old idea of "internalize the externality" (e.g., include the cost of pollution in the price of gasoline), i.e., "externalize the internality." By this, they mean call attention to something important that we tend to ignore because it's hard to vizualize internally. I will be reviewing Ariely's book on these ideas soon, but the important point is that "free" distorts our behavior: we spend too much on "free" things ("buy one, get one free") in the same way that we do not pay attention when a 100 percent price increase is from trivial to…
 
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    The Water Information Program

  • January 23, 2012--Storm blankets Colorado mountains in new snow (Summit Daily)

    denise
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:59 pm
    The National Weather Service reported 11 inches of snow about eight miles east of Steamboat Springs and 10 inches in parts of Eagle and Summit counties Sunday morning. In southwest Colorado, three sections of U.S. 550 were closed Sunday morning due to avalanches. Adverse conditions temporarily closed U.S. 6 over Loveland Pass and a section of U.S. 285 over Kenosha Pass.read more

  • January 21, 2012--Fight over water regulations gaining steam (Colorado Springs Gazette)

    denise
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:23 pm
    A water fight that’s been bubbling beneath the surface of public consciousness for at least a decade is likely to erupt like a geyser in coming months as Colorado public healread more

  • January 21, 2012--Drought prods cattle prices to high (Wall Street Journal)

    denise
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:25 pm
    Cattle prices rose to a record as a drought in the southern Plains is beginning to bear down on the nation's beef supplies. Faced with the worst drought since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, ranchers in states such as Texas and Oklahoma culled their herds last year because they couldn't afford to buy feed and water to replace the parched grass and dry ponds.read more

  • January 18, 2012--Colorado's water rights explained (Alamosa News)

    denise
    18 Jan 2012 | 11:29 am
    In Colorado water is a separate property right that can be sold separately from the land. This is different from the Riparian Doctrine where the water rights are attached to the land that is adjacent to the stream or the river. Colorado administers water under the Prior Appropriation Doctrine.read more

  • January 17, 2012--Debilitating drought to continue across southern USA (USA Today)

    denise
    18 Jan 2012 | 11:22 am
    The disastrous Southern drought, which led to $10 billion in crop and agricultural losses in 2011, is forecast to continue through at least the next three months, government scientists report. The drought is also forecast to worsen and expand across the water-sensitive western USA.read more
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    WordPress Tag: Water

  • Water

    ut
    15 Jan 2012 | 7:54 am
    Water is found in many places on Earth including on the surface of the planet, within rocks below the surface, and in the atmosphere.  Water travels between different […]

  • Water

    sbagria
    8 Jan 2012 | 12:03 am
    Water, water everywhere, water all around, Water in the ocean, water in the ground. Water in a river, water in a creek, Water in a faucet with a drip-drip leak! Water in […]

  • Water

    Michaela
    20 Dec 2010 | 3:00 pm
    Have you ever contemplated the meaning of water ? Water is one of the five elements, one of the building blocks of the universe. According to the myth of […]

  • Water!

    hazurahusin
    10 Oct 2010 | 11:29 pm
    Water is an incredibly important aspect of our daily lives. Every day we drink water, cook with water, bathe in water, and participate in many other activities involving […]

  • What is water?

    robertsonwork
    5 Oct 2009 | 9:14 am
    What is water? Why is most of the Earth's surface covered in water, not land? Shouldn't this be called Planet Water? Why is the human body mostly water? […]
 
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    Water Conservation Blog

  • ALERT! Stop Peru's Road to Rainforest Ecocide and Genocide of Uncontacted Indigenous Tribes

    25 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Plans are to build a highway through Alto Purus - Peru’s largest national park – comprised of vital intact Amazonian rainforest ecosystems and inhabited by at least two 'uncontacted' indigenous tribes [search]. The Alto Purus protected rainforest in south-east Peru is an area of incredible biodiversity covering some of the most pristine forests in the southwestern Amazon and home to jaguars, monkeys and pink dolphins. To cut it with a road would compromise the integrity of the entire Amazonion basin and trigger the swift…

  • ALERT! NAMING NAMES: UN REDD+ Forest Carbon Fund to Log Primary Forests with Corporate NGO Greenwash Support

    3 Jan 2012 | 1:07 pm
    By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal and ClimateArk TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Earth is facing the twin global ecological emergencies of abrupt climate change and land being scoured of natural ecosystems. Sadly, corporate American NGOs and the United Nations are responding to these crises by further promoting logging ancient forests. The United Nations REDD+ program to protect primary and old growth forests as a climate change and deforestation solution has been hi-jacked by logging interests [search] and their big pro-logging NGO friends, and will instead subsidize primary forest logging…

  • ALERT! Brazilian Forest Code Revisions Threaten Amazon Rainforest, National Advancement, and Ecological Sustainability

    22 Dec 2011 | 1:14 pm
    By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Brazil's industrial agriculture lobby has forced through their Congress changes to the forest code [search], the primary legal instrument related to Amazon rainforest protections. It has been done without any scientific inputs, and in a way that will greatly expand industrial agriculture by reducing ecological protections. Newly elected President Dilma Rousseff must be encouraged to veto the bill, something she promised to do during the election. Efforts to address forest code deficiencies must recommence in a manner that…

  • Give the Gift of Rainforests: Support Ecological Internet to Protect Old Forests

    15 Dec 2011 | 9:03 am
    Please help Ecological Internet protect and restore standing old forests for local and global benefit. Please donate what you can afford – including by check – to support our brave, quixotic, and highly successful campaign to end primary forest logging at http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/donate/ . We have raised $12,303 from 125 donors thus far, 31% to our goal of $40,000. Dear rainforest colleagues, Ecological Internet is the only major global rainforest action network working to end primary rainforest and old forest logging. We understand these sacred, nurturing shrines of life…

  • RAINFOREST ALERT! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened by Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal Logging

    13 Dec 2011 | 9:00 pm
    By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Belize’s renowned rainforests [search], beaches, and Mayan homelands are threatened with a resource rampage by a corrupt government confronted with massive foreign debt. With the Prime Minister's permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park - against international treaty commitments and a Belizean Supreme Court ruling. These cleared lines are now being used by poachers to ransack the rainforest, with stolen timbers…
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    Living in Actively Moving Water

  • Enviropreneurs Welcome

    Chris Corbin
    21 Jan 2012 | 2:13 pm
    Last year, I encouraged  applications to the Enviropreneur Institute with this blog post titled: I am an Enviropreneur. All of the sentiment expressed in this post holds true today and applications are being accepted  here.  I, once again, hope all interested parties apply and leave you with the following quotes: Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled – Howard Stevenson And If you find a job you love, you’ll never work again – Winston Churchill And You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Wayne…

  • Innovative Water Transfers Survey Results

    Chris Corbin
    15 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
    Innovative Water Transfers — Survey Results from State Managers on Prezi On December 12 & 13 of 2011, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend the Innovative Water Transfer III workshop put on by the Western Governors’ Association and the Western States Water Council. All of the meeting proceedings can be found here. I enjoyed the meeting and was, once again, reminded how localized and fragmented these markets really are. Although there was one summary presentation, from Carlee Brown of the Western Governors’ Association, I found particularly interesting. This…

  • book review: where good ideas come from

    Chris Corbin
    8 Jan 2012 | 9:38 pm
    I  just finished one of the better books I’ve ever read: Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. The book presents 7 parameters that facilitate idea creation: 1. The adjacent possible. Ideas within communities thrive on each other. 2. Liquid networks. This medium makes innovation easier. Encourage social flow not solitude. 3. The Slow Hunch. Ideas develop slowly over time. 4. Serendipity. In what appears lost, ideas can be found. 5. Error. Failing fast leads to wins. 6. Exaption. Don’t recreate the wheel. Borrow. 7. Platforms.  Ideas are built and spread on foundations.

  • Ecosystem Marketplace: WET News

    Chris Corbin
    3 Jan 2012 | 10:19 pm
    Just consider this a repost of the Ecosystem Marketplace Water Environmental Trading News.  Why? Because Lotic was featured twice. Well, at least 1 and a 1/2. 1. Can his water bank help Montana solve its water problems? 1.5  Instream Flow Transactions are Big Deals in the West. In addition to this greatly appreciated media, the newsletter is also full of other great reads on one of my favorite topics: water markets.  A recommended read worth reposting. Tweet

  • 11 lessons of 2011

    Chris Corbin
    30 Dec 2011 | 6:16 pm
    I just received a request from the Environmental Leader asking me to share a quote for a lesson learned in 2011. Not surprisingly, this made me reflect on 2011 in a level that far surpassed this request. I felt inclined to share. 1. Water is a big deal. WATER is becoming a media darling and this makes for exciting times within this industry. In spirit of this simple thought, I couldn’t help but have some fun with the question: Is water a big deal? 2. Water markets are highly localized and fragmented.  In 2011, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend and present at water conferences…
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    Thirsty in Suburbia

  • Water obsession support group forming now!

    Gayle Leonard
    17 Jan 2012 | 11:39 pm
    Water, water everywhere… consuming your thoughts and dreams, driving your actions and decisions. Dictating your choice of friends, how you spend your time, your money, your goodwill. You have water [...]

  • h2o mp3: O Christmas Grease

    Gayle Leonard
    18 Dec 2011 | 9:25 pm
    Happy Holidays! And to celebrate the season, a gift for you: an all-new h2o mp3 from Steve Anderson, the water world’s funniest singer-songwriter and an advocate for free-flowing pipes and [...]

  • Occupy Water Tower: The Revel’s in the Details

    Gayle Leonard
    23 Oct 2011 | 10:53 pm
    News overload! We’re all scanning the headlines. Hundreds of them, sometimes, in a single day. And only a few select, tantalizing, provocative links ultimately earn our coveted click-through. What a [...]

  • h2o mp3: Don’t Flush the Baby (Wipes)

    Gayle Leonard
    31 Aug 2011 | 1:21 pm
    And the fun just keeps coming from Steve Anderson, among the great hidden talents in the water business. We’re pleased to present his newest original wastewater hit, Don’t Flush the Baby [...]

  • The Legality of Toilet Planters: Answer Man Tackles the Question

    Gayle Leonard
    25 Jul 2011 | 2:10 pm
    Now who could be opposed to reuse and recycling? Go green, woo hoo! Just don’t go green where you , uh, you know, go! Is it a tad enviro-ugly if [...]
 
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    Water Blog

  • Come Celebrate Portland's 5th Loo!

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:13 am
    Located at NW Couch and 8th Avenue in the North Park Blocks, the Couch Loo will be dedicated next Tuesday, January 31st at 1 p.m. Commissioner Randy Leonard and project staff will be joined by children and faculty from the nearby Emerson School for the "first flush."  The new Portland Loo location was chosen to accommodate the needs in this high foot-traffic area of town for tourists and locals visiting Powell's Books, and conveniently located between the MAX/bus lines and the streetcar. This Loo also replaces a problem-plagued bathroom that was recently closed at SW Ankeny and…

  • Traffic Advisory: Nighttime construction hours on SW Naito Parkway extended

    23 Jan 2012 | 4:13 pm
      Starting tonight, the contractor for the Portland Water Bureau will begin work one hour earlier at 8:00 PM on SW Naito Parkway, near downtown. Work will cease at 6:00 AM to accommodate the daily commute on the heavily used roadway.   Work days on SW Naito Parkway will be Monday night through Friday morning for the next four to five weeks. Construction is currently at SW Market Street and will proceed southbound to SW Caruthers Street.   Flaggers and traffic cones will direct motorists around the rolling work zone. Some lane closures and delays should be expected. Motorists…

  • Turbidity Event in Bull Run

    21 Jan 2012 | 5:35 pm
    Portland Water Bureau shifts water supply from Bull Run to Columbia South Shore Groundwater system due to high turbidity event   Today the Portland Water Bureau is turning off theBull Runwater supply system and activating the supply system from the Columbia South Shore Well Field. Recent heavy rains and increased stream flows have contributed to a rapid increase in turbidity, or suspended sediments, in the Bull Run system. The Bull Run water supply is not filtered.   "We are blessed to have two high quality sources of water available to us," said Portland Water Bureau Administrator…

  • Water For People Gala - February 4th

    17 Jan 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Since providing water for people is our livelihood, it's not something we take for granted. While there are challenges of aging infrastructure and complex regulations, we've really got it quite good here in Portland. A water system likes our is really a dream for many communities around the globe.   Water For People is a non-profit that began as a charity run by water utility professionals across the country through the American Water Works Association, and is still supported mostly by water utility professionals. The organization now works in eleven countries where water and sanitation…

  • Water main break on West Burnside at 44th Avenue; traffic delays anticipated

    9 Jan 2012 | 6:32 pm
    Traffic Advisory   For Immediate Release January 9, 2012   Water main break on West Burnside at 44th Avenue; traffic delays anticipated    Portland, OR  --  A crew from the Portland Water Bureau (PWB) is responding to a water main break on West Burnside at West 44th Avenue. The break of an 8-inch diameter cast iron pipe has not ruptured the street, but water is seeping through cracks in the pavement.   The PWB repair work requires that one east bound lane be closed around the work zone. Traffic will be channeled into two west bound lanes for about 6 to 8…
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    Washlink

  • TEDxUniversityofGothenburg – Jan Eliasson – The Global Water and Sanitation Crisis

    WASHLink
    22 Jan 2012 | 8:05 pm
    from site: Access to clean water is a human right and is closely incorporated in the Millennium Development Goal number 7 with the aim to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Jan Eliasson is chairman of the Swedish WaterAid, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sweden and currently represented in the UN group of Ambassadors for promoting the Millennium Goals, offered the opening speech at TEDxUniversityofGothenburg.” Filed under: WatSan

  • TEDxSingapore – NIkki Shaw – How building toilets is key to better lives

    WASHLink
    22 Jan 2012 | 7:32 pm
      from site:”Nikki Shaw is a water and sanitation (watsan) engineer with a passion for toilets. With a career spanning two decades and five continents, Nikki has extensive watsan expertise in both industrial and developing countries: Rural water supply systems in Botswana, grassroots sanitation provision projects in Cambodia, to designing sewerage for Hong Kong tower blocks and Singapore MRT train systems. She has learned many valuable lessons and shares a surprising revelation: Safe toilets are the key to everything good.” “TEDxSingaporeWomen 2011 was…

  • Ted talk: Sonaar Luthra: Meet the Water Canary

    WASHLink
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:08 pm
    From site: “After a crisis, how can we tell if water is safe to drink? Current tests are slow and complex, and the delay can be deadly, as in the cholera outbreak after Haiti’s earthquake in 2010. TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra previews his design for a simple tool that quickly tests water for safety — the Water Canary. “ http://www.watercanary.com/Water_Canary.html Filed under: Chemistry, monitoring, sanitation, technology, TED, water Tagged: monitor, technology, water

  • Call for papers: World Water Week in Stockholm 2012

    WASHLink
    18 Jan 2012 | 7:13 am
    press release: World Water Week in Stockholm 2012 Submit your event proposal or abstract before 15 February Organisations and individuals are invited to submit proposals for organising a seminar or side event at the 2012 World Water Week, or to send in abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the scientific workshops. Submitting proposals for seminars or side events Submitting abstracts for the scientific workshops The deadline for proposal and abstract submission is 15 February. This year, the World Water Week in Stockholm will take a closer look at global “Water and Food…

  • Stone Prize of £100,000 for innovation and entrepreneurship in water annouced by Stone Foundation

    WASHLink
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    Press from the Stone Foundation: We are very excited to be launching a new £100,000 prize: The Stone Prize for innovation and entrepreneurship in water. At the Stone Family Foundation, we want to find, reward and support new initiatives in the water sector that are innovative, entrepreneurial and potentially scalable. We hope the Stone Prize will help take promising approaches to the next level of their development. We are looking for initiatives based in sub-Saharan Africa and South and South-East Asia that are developing sustainable and effective services to get clean drinking water to…
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    Rainbow Water Coalition

  • Safe Soap Study

    15 Jan 2012 | 12:49 pm
    During the course of lecturing about greywater in a class on Sustainability at Oregon State University this past fall, the students asked about the type of soaps that are "safe" for greywater reuse. A good question. I checked Oasis Design, the global leader in greywater reuse. Art Ludwig briefly discusses the issue for laundry soap where he states "... sodium, chlorine and boron are the no-no's. Most do-it-yourself cleaners rely on baking soda or borax, which are truly disastrous for plants". And he wisely recommends learning more in his book.I have not seen much in the way of research…

  • Purple Pollution Eater

    6 Jan 2012 | 2:10 pm
    Not to be confused with the award winning design for an EcoBot by some clever Hamilton Middle School students where team Flying Purple Pollution Eaters *invented the “Inflator,” a robotic device that automatically rolls up to a car’s tires, checks tire pressure and fills tires accordingly, in order to save gas while driving*, the Purple Pollution Eater is a new design for the Indigo Tower - a *Living* Building designed by the Hong Kong-based architecture firm lO.Balanced Network describes how the Indigo Tower works here.The high-rise tower pulls dirt, grease and bacteria out of the air.

  • Greywater in the Holy Land, Redux

    1 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pm
    Colleague Sharon Megdal who is the Director of the Arizona Water Resources Research Center sent me this write-up from the intranet newsletter of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality regarding their work (and hers) on greywater reuse in Jordan. The Rainbow Water Coalition has previously profiled greywater in Jordan here, here, and here. Because the newsletter falls within the ADEQ intranet, it is not possible to link to it, so apologies in advance for the quality of the posting (click to enlarge).Arizona is one of the states adopting greywater reuse in their water resources…

  • Oregon Water Entrepreneurs In Top 12 for 2012

    30 Dec 2011 | 4:51 pm
    ZDNet Blogger Heather Clancy posted this list of start-up or early stage companies that she will be  watching as all are focused on technologies for treating wasterwater. Oregon companies took two slots.Puralytics is one that the Rainbow Water Coalition has posted on before, here, here, and here. I met the principal Mark Owen of the firm at BEST-FEST in Portland this past fall, where in addition to showcasing their great greywater treatment products, they also introduced the SolarBag 3L Reusable Sunlight Activated Water Purifier. This has a real future in many disadvantaged countries as…

  • Unity in Diversity & Greywater Guidance

    23 Dec 2011 | 6:04 pm
    This open source article titled "Development of guidance for sustainabile irrigation use of greywater in  gardens and small-scale agriculture in South Africa" is remarkable for many reasons, but most importantly, for the recognition of kitchensink wastewater in the country's water reuse portfolio. Yes, they recognize there are some apparent *hazards* and that the residual oils may be an issue, but the treatment technology is simple - a mulch filter. Sound familiar? Sure, the Greywater Guru Art Ludwig at Oasis Design also discusses the importance of mulch filters, too. Check out this…
 
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  • Upcoming Conference in Tucson on Green Infrastructure and Low-Impact Development in arid environments

    Chris Brooks
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:05 pm
    Not sure if I'll be able to make it to this one - a shame really, since it's so close to home.But it looks like a great event, so if you're from Tucson or would like to come visit to attend the 2012 Arid LID Conference, March 27-29, check out the link for all the info you need.  The agenda includes several really interesting presentations, but the best part is there's lots of opportunities for hands-on learning.Be sure to check it out.

  • The Failed Promise of Indian Water Settlements, Part II

    Chris Brooks
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:38 pm
    Taking advantage of a sick day to finally get around to this thread again.So you may remember from my previous post that it was the Arizona Water Settlements Act (passed in 2004, became law in 2007) that resolved a couple of the most significant Indian water rights claims in Arizona, as well as settling several other pressing issues in allocation of Central Arizona Project (CAP) water and costs associated with the project.  The legislation enacting those settlements allocated both water and money to help the tribes involved purchase their new water from CAP and put the water to use on…

  • Water Marketing - Who Wins, Who Loses?

    Chris Brooks
    8 Jan 2012 | 8:16 pm
    I just wanted to post a link to this commentary (that came to me by way of Aquafornia) about water marketing in California.  It makes the point that opening up markets can create unequal opportunities, when one one part of the supply chain is (functionally) controlled by a monopoly (the federal government).  Something that could be very prevalent throughout the West, where the Bureau of Reclamation controls access to much of the big water that goes to agriculture and might find its way into markets in the coming years. This is also my way of introducing the upcoming Water Rights…

  • Anniversary of a Tragedy

    Chris Brooks
    8 Jan 2012 | 12:05 pm
    It was exactly one year ago that I posted something completely uncharacteristic for this blog.  It was an event that had a tremendous impact on me, but I'm still not sure it had the kind of impact it should have had on society-at-large.  This idea is well articulated in this piece by Jeff Biggers, posted on Salon today.I don't want to initiate an ongoing discussion on this blog about these events, but didn't want to let the anniversary pass without at least mentioning it.  It's one of those events in our lives we should try to never forget because the lessons to be learned from…

  • Nefarious shenanigans in redistricting process

    Chris Brooks
    10 Dec 2011 | 9:13 pm
    Found a link to a funny article from the Yuma Sun in BC Arizona Water News this week and just had to share.  If you're from Arizona and follow the news you have probably heard about the big fight going on in the state over the decennial redistricting process that is currently going on.  I won't go into the details here, it's too convoluted and at times sordid.Let's just say that folks from both political parties have their gripes about the way the process has been going, but the ones who identify with an elephant have been griping the most - probably because they have the most to…
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    Chance of Rain

  • Commenting on the unspeakable

    EmilyGreen
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:18 pm
    Five years ago, when asked about a plan by Las Vegas to pump groundwater around the Great Basin National Park, Nevadan hydrologists who learned that I was a reporter based in Southern California used to respond, “If you think that’s bad, you should look at Cadiz.” Nevadans live to insult Californians, but it was said so many times by so many hydrologists that roughly two-and-a-half years ago, I started looking at this worse-than-Vegas Cadiz. It wasn’t the Spanish port, but a little-known unincorporated pocket of the Californian Mojave just visible in the upper right…

  • Sunflower epilogue

    EmilyGreen
    21 Jan 2012 | 2:20 pm
    Sunflowers are a glorious and effective conversion crop from lawn to native garden, however pruning them is a job worth mention.

  • Life is too short to load slowly

    EmilyGreen
    17 Jan 2012 | 11:31 am
    To all of you who got a stub site or error message during the past three days, apologies. The site unravelled during transition to a new Internet host. The good news is that the transfer is complete and upload times are far faster. However, to those who were inconvenienced during the transfer, deepest apologies.

  • The fourth option

    EmilyGreen
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:13 pm
    Choices are best understood by those who make them. In the case of the decision about where to unveil schematic drawings of what new landscaping around Los Angeles City Hall might look like after last year’s Occupation, it may only be comprehensible to city hall’s caretakers at the Department of Recreation and Parks. Choosing last night’s meeting of the Los Angeles Downtown Neighborhood Council was, procedurally, rather like the federal government unveiling new plans for the White House grounds at a meeting of a DC neighborhood association. LA supports 15 council…

  • Where palms belong

    EmilyGreen
    9 Jan 2012 | 9:51 am
    Florida photographer Cyde Butcher exhibits wildlife photography in Venice, CA gallery to benefit World Wildlife Fund.
 
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  • Rainwater Harvesting Market Report reveals burgeoning industry

    Chris Maxwell-Gaines
    6 Jan 2012 | 11:32 am
    The market for water conservation techologies is growing!!! A new report titled “Rainwater Harvesting in the US: A 2010 Industry Analysis” is now available. The rainwater harvesting industry in the US is a small industry and has never been analyzed to the detail available in the report. Other countries such as Australia, Germany, and England have much larger rainwater collection system industries and these markets have been analyzed before. This report details the rainwater harvesting industry in the US through careful analysis of rainwater industry groups and interviews with key…

  • Residential rainwater harvesting cistern installation special

    Chris Maxwell-Gaines
    28 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Frontier Model cistern specially priced for 2012 There are many different types of cisterns available for rainwater collection systems, each one with its pros and cons. We install many different cisterns since each job has different circumstances such as budget, available room for the cistern, and cistern installation access requirements. In addition, there are price efficiencies that make certain sizes of cisterns more “attractive” for a homeowner’s budget. For example, a 10,000 gallon cistern may cost around $8,000 but the 20,000 gallon cistern option may only cost around…

  • New rainwater harvesting system installation videos

    Chris Maxwell-Gaines
    14 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Completed rainwater collection system as seen in the videos One of our past clients asked us if his company, Conservation Kingdom, could create a series of videos that show the installation of a complete rainwater harvesting system. Since there are many videos online that show small installations with rain barrels and such, we wanted to produce a video that showed the installation of a larger system that would be used for potable water supply. Smaller systems are great for urban lots, but when you are depending on this to supply your household’s drinking water, you want to make sure…

  • If your yard conserves water during this drought, tell people about

    Chris Maxwell-Gaines
    4 Dec 2011 | 11:52 pm
    Show your support for water conservation Do you currently have a “brown” lawn due to the drought? Did you finally realize that keeping your lawn green during the Texas drought was too daunting of a task especially with water restrictions? Well, now you can justify your brown lawn and declare your support for and commitment to water conservation. The Central Texas Water Efficiency Network (CTWEN) is giving away free yard signs that show your pledge to follow your community’s outdoor watering schedule and to find ways to reduce water in your home and/or business. They invite you…

  • H2OScore translates your water usage to provide more clarity

    Chris Maxwell-Gaines
    23 Nov 2011 | 12:36 pm
    Promote water conservation by helping H2OScore With population growth and uncertain future weather patterns, water conservation is becoming a much larger issue in our communities. Therefore, water conservation efforts need all the help they can get. A student-led social entrepreneurship venture based at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has started up and they are trying an innovative idea to get people to understand their water usage patterns better. Project H2OScore is designed to promote water sustainability and empower water users through the innovative use of data and…
 
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  • Kinky relationships among Canterbury’s springs

    Waiology
    22 Jan 2012 | 1:19 pm
    By Daniel Collins As Ross mentioned some time ago, one of the frontiers of hydrological research at present is the interface between surface water and groundwater. On the one hand, we need to understand how aquifers are recharged from the surface; on the other, how aquifers in turn discharge water back to the surface. This is important to water resource managers so that they can determine how water use at one location may affect water availability and aquatic ecosystems elsewhere. One question, particularly relevant to both Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay, is how fluctuations in groundwater…

  • Rainfall recharge to groundwater

    Waiology
    16 Jan 2012 | 2:33 pm
    Guest post by Paul White, Senior Groundwater Scientist at GNS Science. Groundwaters are very important water resources in many New Zealand regions – important because they are used for water supplies (urban and rural) and because they supply flow to many springs, streams, rivers and wetlands. The two major inflows to groundwater are from rainfall and from surface water. We need to know the rates of recharge to groundwater so we can manage groundwater use. For example, groundwater use must be significantly less than groundwater recharge to ensure that groundwater wells and springs do not go…

  • Edmond Halley, an underappreciated hydrologist

    Waiology
    8 Jan 2012 | 2:42 pm
    By Daniel Collins I remember in 1986 going to the Beverly-Begg Observatory, in Dunedin, to see Halley’s Comet. At the time, I was a young kid fascinated with astronomy. I had discovered a book on the topic the previous year while on holiday in Central Otago, and soon joined an astronomy club. Through the club, I built a basic telescope (with a lot of help) and dreamed of becoming an astronaut. But this dream was short-lived and that career never eventuated. Instead, I became a hydrologist. Edmond Halley (1656-1742), after whom the comet is named, is best known for his role in astronomy. But…

  • ‘Twas the post before Christmas: 2011 in review

    Waiology
    18 Dec 2011 | 2:55 pm
    By Daniel Collins ‘Twas the post before Christmas, when all through the ‘sphere Bloggers reflected on happ’nings this year. Here at Waiology we’ll do so too. Two thousand eleven: The year in review. It started in June with a mission to share The science of water flows from here and there. It’s part of our programme, with MSI dough, To chart and to model the Waterscape’s flow 3000 visits and thirty posts hence Much have we offered to help you make sense Of the wonderful watery world that we boast So gather round all as I recap our posts! How much freshwater do we get each year?

  • Water footprints – What do they mean for us in New Zealand?

    Waiology
    11 Dec 2011 | 2:55 pm
    Guest post by Dr Sarah McLaren, Associate Professor at Massey University and Director of the NZLCM Centre. This article originally appeared in the Summer 2011 (December) issue of IrrigationNZ News. Have you heard that the water footprint of 1 kg beef is 15,500 litres, and of 1 kg cheese is 5,000 litres? Did you know that Unilever has set itself a target of halving consumer use of water associated with its products by 2020? Or that Walmart is in the process of asking all its 10,000 suppliers to provide information on total water use in their facilities, and their water use reduction targets?
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  • Warming up over 131 years

    Tom
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    A new animation from NASA shows how global temperatures have increased since 1880. Clicking on the image below will take you to the 26 second video. Choosing full-screen mode there is best: As the explanatory text notes, this warming can be expected when you increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 285 parts per million in 1880 to the 390 ppm level of today. After enough warming, sea level rise gets under way and accelerates over future decades. Places like Florida are especially vulnerable.

  • A geographical oddity

    Tom
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:11 am
    Did you know that you can see Georgia from Florida but that they can’t see us? It is a geographical oddity. Georgia just published a review of their 2009-2011 regional water planning efforts based on this principle. Many water activities in Georgia can have profound influences on Florida but this fact is nearly invisible on the Georgia side of the state line. The rivers, the shared aquifer, the linked wetland systems across state lines–they all seem to exist only on the northern side of the state line. Here’s some resources that affect both states but do not appear at all in…

  • An unworkable committee of 160

    Tom
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:11 am
    Thanks are owed to Brittany Davis of the Tampa Times for a story yesterday about action by the Florida House Subcommittee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. They approved a bill  to adopt as state law the numeric nutrient criteria recently adopted by the Environmental Regulation Commission. Davis wrote about the nutrient criteria bill but I want to note the goofiness underlying this legislative process. Until recently, the Legislature empowered the ERC to adopt standards and try to get them approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency.  The legislators changed that process to say…

  • Water obsession

    Tom
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    Martha Golea at ValleyCrest.com started it. She gave some examples of how to tell if you are “obsessed” with water management. Like: You wish commercial buildings had “How’s my irrigation system?” hotlines because you would call to report deficiencies You bathe your dog with your children You see neighbor kids running through sprinklers and you toss them a bar of soap Gayle Leonard at Thirsty in Suburbia joined the game and proposed some more behavioral indicators, like: You paid $10 apiece for a trunk-load of ugly, brown dormant stalks because they were “recommended…

  • Hydrologic drought or policy drought?

    Tom
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:01 am
    The Suwannee River Water Management District reports a regional drought has caused record lows in boh Floridan aquifer monitoring wells and the Suwannee River. Last Thursday, the National Drought Center forecast that this drought would persist or intensify at least through April. Other parts of Florida also are experiencing drought or foresee that it may soon become an important problem. A shortage of rainfall is a problem. Over the long run, however, it is the drought of adequate water policies that is the much bigger problem.    
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