Mar
4
Position Announcement: President, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana – Zamorano (Honduras)
March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, commonly known as Zamorano, is searching for its 11th president. The private agriculture school, founded in 1941, is located about 25 miles east of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in the beautiful, rural Valle del Zamorano.
Zamorano enjoys an excellent reputation throughout Latin America. It has an office in Washington, DC.
So why I am I posting [...]
Oct
14
New Hydrophilanthropy: SafeWater4Kids
October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I just learned of a new organization, SafeWater4Kids (SW4Ks). Its mission is to provide sustainable safe drinking water to children and families in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
Read more here.
Laura R. Brunson, whom I met a few years ago at the University of Oklahoma’s WaTER Center, is the Director of Marketing and Development. [...]
Oct
9
Water Alternatives Issue – Hydraulic Bureaucracies: Flows of Water, Flows of Power
October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Most of the current (October 2009) issue of the open-access journal Water Alternatives is devoted to Hydraulic Bureaucracies: Flows of Water, Flows of Power. There are some great articles here, including one by Aguanomics czar David Zetland:
The end of abundance: How water bureaucrats created and destroyed the southern California oasis
Download Zetland Art2-3-4
You can download the [...]
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 [...]
Jun
24
The other day I returned a call from a fellow who wants to sell Dominica’s fresh water – 37B gallons per year, to be exact. That is about 114,000 acre-feet per year (140 MCM).
Dominica is a rugged, volcanic island nation in the Caribbean Sea. Its area is about 754 square km (290 square miles) with a [...]
Apr
11
Three New Water Blogs: Royte, Eckstein, and Basilevsky
April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
Sounds like the name of a power law firm! Actually, two of the blogs deal with water law.
Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania, The Tapir’s Morning Bath, and Garbage Land, has recently started a blog, Waste, Water, Whatever.
Friend and colleague Professor Gabriel Eckstein of the Texas Tech University School of Law and Director of the International [...]
Mar
27
Some Reflections on the Fifth World Water Forum
March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
I’ve been working on this post for several days; time to get this thing done.
A number of us AWRA WaterWonks were involved in the Fifth World Water Forum 16-22 March, Istanbul, Turkey: Jerry Sehlke, Ari Michelsen, Mary Theresa Flynn, Faye Anderson, David Moody, myself, and of course, Ken Reid. It was a lot of work, but [...]
Mar
17
World Water Day is 22 March 2009 – the day the 5WWF ends.
In honor of that day, I am publicizing two causes I believe are worthy. The descriptions below were provided to me.
1) Fill the Glass is a campaign to quench the thirst of thousands in need of water for drinking, bathing, and growing food. [...]
Feb
1
International Water Issues: Overview and U.S. Response
February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Aaron Salzberg is Special Coordinator for Water Resources at the State Department. You probably didn’t know there was such a person, right?
At our AWRA Board of Directors meeting a few weeks ago, Aaron visited us and gave the following presentation, which he granted me permission to post as a pdf:
Download Salzberg – Int. Water Issues
Here’s [...]
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? [...]
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