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You’ve all undoubtedly heard of the water films FLOW: For Love Of Water and Blue Gold: World Water Wars. For those interested, I recently posted my take on each one: FLOW and Blue Gold: World Water Wars over at WaterWired.

It’s the time of the year when our thoughts turn to charitable donations and tax deductions. But the economy is “uncooperative” this year, and charities, like many of us, are suffering, too. Any help will be appreciated, and this year, please consider supporting water charities.
Publisher Tom Bell has a wonderful editorial, Water professionals are obligated to [...]

Forecasting Urban Water Demand ( Second Edition ), R.B. Billings and C.V. Jones . American Water Works [...]

This post from the Prometheus Blog dates from August 2008, but since one of the participants is John Holdren, President-elect Obama’s designate as White House Science Advisor, I thought it worthwhile to examine his view on science in politics. The other participant is Robert Lackey of USEPA.
“We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” – Chicago political [...]

We all know what the hydrologic cycle looks like, right? 
Well, take a look below.
Kate Ely, Umatilla Basin hydrologist extraordinaire for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, sent me a version of the hydrologic cycle she sketched and used in a presentation. 
I call it the ‘Postmodern Hydrologic Cycle’, or perhaps the ‘T. Boone Pickens Hydrologic [...]

If you haven’t seen it yet, please check out the draft Sustainable Sites Initiative Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks at the following link http://www.sustainablesites.org/report/.  Will this effort become a subset of the LEED process (does anyone know for sure?)? The three sponsoring organizations would like to see these standards applied across the nation by 2010.   Sustainable water resources practices related to [...]

Hello Water Resources Professionals:
Attached are two files:  One that is a rather lengthy document that includes the results of the September 2008 AWRA Water Policy Dialogue held in Washington DC,  cosponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and the ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute.  For those of you who like a shorter rendition, I have [...]

Last month I posted about the suspension of Dr. Anthony Turton by CSIR. Tony is a world-renowned South African water expert, as well as a friend and colleague.
Some of his colleagues have established an electronic petition in his behalf. You can also access more information about the case at the petition’s WWW site.
Here is the [...]

Jane Rowan – President, AWRA
Greetings fellow Water Resources Professionals! I would like to take this opportunity to direct your attention to the upcoming leadership changes for the AWRA board. I am grateful for the many hours of investment in to this great organization by Faye Anderson leaving the board this year after three years of [...]

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