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@USGS Video: 'Agriculture - A River Runs Through It'
And an aquifer beneath it. Bill Battaglin of the USGS sent this video my way. Good stuff. They even discuss SPARROW modeling! See more videos at this site. "There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery,...
Tom Toles: Over the Top or On Target?
Tom Toles is one of my favorite editorial cartoonists. His words bite, but his caricatures speak volumes to me. The following appeared today, and it's great as usual. But two days after the Moore tornado, I wonder whether the timing is good. On the other hand, if editorial cartoonists aren't...
Whole Aquifer Management - The Ogallala
Over the span of my 35 year career the issue of an aquifer-wide Ogallala management plan has come up three times. The most serious effort was begun in 1995 under the wing of the Great Plains Foundation (GPF) whose first 5 years in existence was to be dedicated to water. Show More Summary
Still Going Strong After 50 Years Despite That Cape Cod Contaminated Groundwater
Spent this past weekend with some old friends on Cape Cod in Falmouth celebrating the 50th anniversary of a caddy camp we helped establish in 1963. We served as the first cohort of caddy campers. Scary sight, right? But considering what we might have been drinking 50 years ago, not...
Bell Gardens Intermediate School Thinks Green
This past weekend, Central Basin had the opportunity to visit a farmer’s marked hosted by the Environmental Garden Club in Bell Gardens. An impressive harvest was available at affordable prices for residents in the area. Located at the Bell Gardens Intermediate School (BGI), students volunteer their time to maintain the garden with a variety of fruits, vegetables [...]
Project Envy and Fog Collecting
by Katrina Mendrey There is nothing like writing your thesis to give you serious project envy. For instance, while I was caring for a gaggle of Douglas-fir seedlings potted with various forms and doses of metals in a greenhouse, my dear friend Betsy was trekking around the Cascades classifying a soil on which a rare [...]Show More Summary
Portland's Fluoride War May Not End Tomorrow, But the Vote Will
Tomorrow, 21 May 2013, will likely be known to some Portlanders as a day of infamy. Regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's fluoridation vote tally (and here in Oregon we vote only by mail), some citizens will be quite unhappy, even distraught, although not distraught enough to forsake their favorite...
Water Risk in Unexpected Places
A new report by the Columbia Water Center, produced in conjunction with Veolia Water and Growing Blue, could help expose the real nature of water risk in urban and rural areas throughout the country--even in places that most people think of as having plenty of water.
What Is Water Security? @UN_Water Infographic, Definition, Analytical Brief & More!
From the folks at UN Water. View/download a larger version here. PDF: Download Water_Security_poster Here are the analytical brief (PDF or online flipbook) and a summary. Read more here. Download Watersecurity_analyticalbrief Enjoy! “The capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of and acceptable quality water for...
@AGUSciPolicy Infographic: How To Promote A Conference
This graphic came with an email promoting AGU's upcoming conference on preparing for our future, 24-26 June in Washington, DC. If this doesn't do it, I don't know what will. But they should have had one figure dealing with losses from a mega-hurricane, flood, or something water-related. Just a suggestion,...
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 11 – 17 May 2013
Early again this week! Headed to Cape Cod, MA, so I’ll be on a plane most of the day. This will be the last weekend to submit an abstract for the AWRA Annual Conference. The abstract submission site will stay open through 19 May. No more excuses! Click here for the weekly water news summary. Enjoy! “Excellence [...]Show More Summary
A Short Look at the Guarani Aquifer
In our part of the world the Ogallala Aquifer is really important, and has been written about extensively. It is often touted (sometimes accurately and sometimes not) as the largest, the most heavily developed and/or the most stressed...Show More Summary
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 11 - 17 May 2013
Early again this week! Headed to Cape Cod, MA, so I'll be on a plane most of the day. Today is the last day to submit an abstract for the AWRA Annual Conference. The abstract submission site will stay open through 17 May. No more excuses! Note - if you...
G.F. White Lecture by Steven L. Stockton - 'Global Context: The Flood Risk Management Challenge' @USACEHQ
Steven L. Stockton, P.E., Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, gave this address at the recent 2013 Gilbert F. White Lecture in the Geographical Sciences: Global Context - The Flood Risk Management Challenge. The lecture was sponsored by the NAS/NRC. Download GFWhite_Lecture_Stockton_7May2013 From the WWW site: Damages...
Infographic: Will Your City Run Dry? Report: 'America's Water Risk: Water Stress & Climate Variability'
I just received a PR email from Veolia Water's publicity folks touting the release of a new report (although it is dated February 2013 - guess I am on the 'D-List' with Kathy Griffin) from the Columbia Water Center and Veolia, America's Water Risk: Water Stress and Climate Variability'. Download...
Journal of AWRA (JAWRA): Early View Articles - 14 May 2013
The following articles have just been published online in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Click on the title to read the abstract for free. If you cannot access these articles from this post, visit here. AWRA members can access the entire article for free by logging in....
Kansas GMD Water Level Changes, 1997 - 2013
More numbers. Following are the water level changes in all 5 GMDs between the years 1997 and 2013. These changes are based on approximately 1200 monitoring wells measured in January of each year in all five of the Kansas GMDs. The first row would be the water level change between the January 1996 and the January 1997 measurements. Show More Summary
@OSUHydrophiles 3rd Annual Water Research Symposium Today!
The Oregon State University student water group Hydrophiles is holding its 3rd Annual Water Research Symposium today at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center (CHAC on map) on the OSU campus. The description: The Water Research Symposium at Oregon State University is a one-day conference highlighting the variety of outstanding student...
The Mother of All California Water Plans Explained Here
The UC Davis Water Sciences Twitter sent around this Tom Meyer cartoon that explained Gov. Jerry Brown's plan for the Sacramento Delta tunnels. Makes sense to me! “Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And...
@SaveTheWater Groundwater Contamination Infographic
From the good folks at Save the Water - here is the original site. Enjoy!
