Apr
30
WaterDance Lives On …
April 30, 2008 | 4 Comments
Several months ago now, facing the cold, wet, foggy, dreary and long 28 days in the dreaded month of February and desperate for a diversion, I proposed in the AWRA e-newsletter, Connections, a film festival to be held in each of our homes, and I provided a list of 28 films (mostly readily available) in which water [...]
Apr
23
Key Water Issues Now Facing our Nation
April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments
Robert M. Hirsch, Timothy L. Miller, Pixie Hamilton, and Robert Gilliom
Series: Water Resources in the Next Decade
Challenges to sustaining sufficient and high-quality water for human consumption, industry, farms, energy production, and ecosystem services continue to intensify in many parts of the Nation. We face four key water issues that call for support from the science [...]
Apr
23
Water Resources Challenges in the Next Decade and Beyond: Global Change
April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Gerald Sehlke
Series: Water Resources in the Next Decade
I believe that the most pressing issue is “Global Change” and its impacts on humans and the environment. Changes on earth are always a mixture of natural and anthropogenic changes. “Global Change” research focuses on the anthropogenic aspects of climate change, land use change, water resources development, [...]
Apr
22
Brown & Caldwell: Special Earth Day Edition of Water News
April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Brown and Caldwell has published a special Earth Day edition of its Water News.
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read ‘President Can’t Swim’.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
Apr
20
ABA Best Papers in Environmental Law and Water Law
April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Colleague Patrick Griffiths of the City of Bend alerted me to this information, which is from the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources (www.abanet.org/environ/best/).
The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources recognizes the following paper submissions as the “Best Papers” prepared for the 37th Annual Conference on Environmental Law (Keystone), 26th Annual Water [...]
Apr
13
Great Lakes Law Blog Debuts
April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Professor Noah D. Hall of the Wayne State University Law School recently started the Great Lakes Law blog. Wayne State is home to the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, of which Hall is the Executive Director.
He describes his blog thusly:
A Blog on All Things Wet and Legal in the Great Lakes Region by Professor Noah Hall
If [...]
Apr
11
New Rule on Compensatory Mitigation – See Link
April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment
Compensatory Mitigation for Losses of Aquatic Resources: Final Rule -Army Corps and EPA Improve Wetland and Stream Mitigation
Check out the new rules for compensatory mitigation, hot off the presses. The heirarchy for mitigation has been turned on its head. This is good news for mitigation bankers, but what about the resource? What do you think? [...]
Apr
10
Al Gore’s New Thinking on the Climate Crisis
April 10, 2008 | 4 Comments
Al Gore’s new video on climate change has just been released. It’s worth viewing (about 28 minutes).
Gore expresses alarm at the pace of melting ice – the summer pack ice in the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps.
What else is new?
But he is optimistic, and even says that in 1,000 years, this [...]
Apr
9
AlterNet’s Water and Environment e-Newsletters
April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
From Tara Lohan (tara@alternet.org), Managing Editor of AlterNet:
On the heels of World Water Day last week, we launched AlterNet’s new free weekly email newsletter dedicated to water issues. You can sign up here and get the latest news, commentary, video and more in your inbox every Thursday. Thanks to those of you who have already [...]
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