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Nov

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White House Water Advisor: You Can Help

November 11, 2008 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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My post the other day about the need for a White House Water Advisor and suggestion that it be Dr. Peter H. Gleick has gained some attention.

B&C’s California Water News picked up my post and that generated a lot of page views.

Some people thought this was another one of my tongue-in-cheek episodes, but it was not. I’m serious.

But like the dog who finally caught the car, now what’s next?

Since I have no “juice” with the Obama-Biden folks, a suggestion made by friend Jay Zarnetske struck me as reasonable, at least at this stage: go to the Obama-Biden WWW site and make the suggestion.

So I did. I went to Change.gov and suggested that we needed a White House Water Advisor. I scrolled down to the bottom and went to “Contact” and “Share Your Vision” and told them I thought we needed a WHWA and then provided a link to my post.

I’m not so naive to think that anyone will actually answer or listen to me, but maybe if they get enough comments someone might pass it higher up the food chain to the mailroom person. It took just a few minutes of my time.

So if you think we do need one, go ahead. It doesn’t have to be Peter Gleick (who responded that he was flattered) – it could even be David Zetland!

You might try contacting your senator or House member, especially if he/she is a Democrat and an Obama supporter.

If you have a better way to move this forward, leave a comment.

Ain’t the Internet grand!

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