Aug
7
Voodoo Volumetric Analysis: Relative Volumes of the Gulf of Mexico and Dispersant
August 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
A Tweet rolled across my screen the other day. I can’t recall the exact verbiage but it was something like this:
Gulf volume: 643 quadrillion gallons; dispersant volume: 1.5 million gallons. What’s the problem?
Sounds like the Tweeter had a great point: the volume of the Gulf is so huge relative to the volume of dispersant that [...]
May
15
I am more than a little perturbed this week: first Science magazine, now the University of California Regents, who seem intent on dismantling the Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) at the University of California-Berkeley, the most comprehensive collection of water materials in the USA.
Read what Dr. Peter Gleick said last fall. Here is a bit of his [...]
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 [...]
Jan
26
Well-Worn Water Words
January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Tired of a failure to connect the dots? Maybe not, but I suspect you’re tired of the expression “failure to connect the dots.”
A Tweet from Robert at Watercrunch provided the impetus for this post. In response to my saying that I was getting ‘burned out’ on water wars he suggested that we declare a truce and [...]
Dec
19
UNR’s Knowledge Center: The Shape of Things to Come
December 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
In early November 2009 my wife Mary Frances, a professional librarian, and I got an inside tour of the University of Nevada-Reno’s Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. Our tour guide was Carol Parkhurst, Senior Director, University Libraries.
Why post about a library? This is a water blog!
Two reasons:
1) this is not about a library – it’s about a [...]
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 [...]
Apr
23
AWRA Director Quoted in Elle, Waits for Other Shoe to Drop
April 23, 2009 | 3 Comments
Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania and Garbage Land, has an article entitled ‘Tapped Out’ in the May 2009 issue of Elle (page 88).
Royte starts out with the apocalyptic vision of the USA Southwest, in which Phoenix and other places desiccate, based on James Powell’s Dead Pool. She then discusses water shortages, contamination, and some solutions.
It’s a very good [...]
Apr
1
My April First Adventure
April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
It’s that time of year — my annual April Fools’ Day post. Lest I soil the pristine pages of AWRA’s blog and bring dishonor to this noble organization, I will simply redirect you to my WaterWired blog post, Corps of Engineers Unleashes F**T. As the title hints, it’s not for the faint-hearted.
The quote at the bottom [...]
Mar
12
New blogs just keep on coming!
The law schools of UCLA and UC-Berkeley have launched a new blog: Legal Planet.
Here is the blurb I received via email:
“Legal Planet focuses on significant developments in law and policy for a general audience,” said Dan Farber, director of Berkeley Law’s environmental law program and faculty co-director of the school’s [...]
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