Mar
29
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on a draft strategy that describes the potential effects of climate change on clean water, drinking water, and ocean protection programs and outlines EPA actions to respond to these effects. The National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change (http://www.epa.gov/water/climatechange/) focuses on actions designed to [...]
Mar
26
New Policies on “Waters of the U.S.” Jurisdiction
March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Jane Rowan – President, AWRA
Series: Water Resources in the Next Decade
New guidance to determine federal jurisdiction of some “waters of the United States” may lead to a more holistic view of the watershed and justify a National Water Policy.
On June 5, 2007, the Assistant Secretary of the Army and the Assistant Administrator for Water, U.S. [...]
Mar
26
Sandra L. Postel
Series: Water Resources in the Next Decade
We typically think of water “infrastructure” as the collection of dams, levees, canals, pipelines, treatment plants and other engineering works that help provide water services to society. As Gerry Galloway pointed out in the last issue of IMPACT, this infrastructure is sorely in need of maintenance [...]
Mar
26
WATERS Network: Comments Invited
March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
I just finished a two-day workshop of the WATERS (WATer and Environmental Resource Systems) Network, a group of academics that has been working for three years to develop a large proposal to secure Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) funding (c. $300,000,000) from the National Science Foundation for a hydrologic observatory infrastructure to permit the kind of investigations that cannot [...]
Mar
21
‘Nature’ Special Issue – Water: Under Pressure
March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The current (20 March 2008) issue of Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/specials/water/index.html) is devoted to “Water: Under Pressure”. You will likely have to pay for full article access/downloads.
Here is a description of the contents:
Over a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and over two billion have little or no sanitation. Do we have the [...]
Mar
21
AWRA GIS and Water Resources Specialty Conference
March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Did you know that AWRA just held its 5th conference focused on the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the analysis and visualization of water resources related data? AWRA’s Spring Specialty Conference was held in San Mateo, California and was adeptly planned and executed by Lorri Peltz-Lewis and David Maidment (and their able committee), [...]
Mar
9
Improving the Water for the Poor Act
March 9, 2008 | 6 Comments
Two years ago, Congress passed the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act with broad bipartisan support. At the time, it was called “landmark legislation”, as Congress attempted to provide substance to the commitment to halve the number of people who have no access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015, as prescribed by the [...]
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