Sep
30
UNEP Releases Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience Reports
September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the entire series of reports describing hydropolitical vulnerability and resilience along international waters on all inhabited continents, save Australia.
Download (may take a minute or two) the reports for free: North America; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia; Africa; and Europe.
The Africa report was released in 2006.
You can [...]
Sep
28
CSIS Report on USA Leadership on Drinking Water & Sanitation: Telling It Like It Should Be
September 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Center for Strategic and International Studies just released the following report, Enhancing U.S. Leadership on Drinking Water and Sanitation by Katherine E. Bliss.
Here are the opening paragraphs of the report:
In the United States, domestic support for greater investments in projects dedicated to improving global health through addressing water, sanitation, and hygiene issues has gathered momentum [...]
Sep
26
Putting the Civil Rights Act to Work for Environmental Justice
September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Noah Hall’s excellent Great Lakes Law blog featured a guest post by Chris Winter of the Crag Law Center in Portland, OR.
Here is Noah’s introduction:
This guest post is by Chris Winter, Co-Executive Director & Staff Attorney of the Crag Law Center in Portland, Oregon. Chris and I went to law school together, and despite his [...]
Sep
12
September/October 2009 Southwest Hydrology: CO2 Sequestration
September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
The new issue of Southwest Hydrology features CO2 Sequestration. As always, downloads of the entire issue or individual departments are free.
From the introduction:
The supercritical state of CO2 in the subsurface has fluid-like behavior, thus many aspects of hydrology apply to its sequestration. A good candidate storage site, often identified with the help of multi-phase flow [...]
Sep
4
JAWRA October 2009 Highlights
September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Volume 45 Issue 4 (August 2009) – View Current Issue
[359 – FC] Brian Richter, Kathleen Williams, and Peter Aarrestad present a small Featured Collection of papers on Instream Flows. The papers derive from an expert panel convened at “FLOW 2008: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Instream Flow Problems,’’ convened in [...]
Sep
3
Review: James G. Workman’s ‘Heart of Dryness’
September 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just posted my review of James G. Workman’s new book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, over at WaterWired. I won’t repost it here.
In case you don’t wish to read the entire review, here’s the bottom line:
The book is less about water and [...]
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