Jul
28
Johns Hopkins University’s Global Water Program has just launched its Global Water Magazine, an online publication with free access. It will be published every two months.
From the ‘About’ section of the site:
The JHU Global Water Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to covering the crucial issues in meeting the global water challenge of providing the quantity [...]
Jun
26
Aquadoc’s Film Debut: Guaraní Aquifer
June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Self-promotion alert!
You may recall my WaterWired 18 April post in which I spoke of my upcoming trip to southern Connecticut to film some ‘talking head’ video clips on South America’s Guaraní aquifer (shown in blue on the map) under the guidance of multimedia journalist Annabel Symington and videographer Vasilios Sfinarolakis.
Why film in Connecticut? It’s cheaper to reach than South [...]
Jun
9
Message From the President
June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Ari M. Michelsen, President AWRA
Water in its various forms, quantities, and qualities crosses virtually all human and environmental boundaries. An unfortunate example of water crossing boundaries is the British Petroleum deep sea oil well leak into the Gulf of Mexico. In this case water laden with oil is impacting the environment from seabed to surface, [...]
May
28
June DC Water Events: An Invitation
May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
Friend Jim Thebaut’s DC water events are just about upon us. They’ve been rescheduled from February 2010.
Here are the invitations to the evening event on 16 June and the noon 17 June lunch/panel discussion at CSIS.
Download Invitation-16-June-Event
Download Flyer Lunch Panel Event Final 5 24 10
The evening event will feature a screening of a trailer of Jim’s [...]
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 | 1 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 [...]
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