Jun
3
TGIF – Tweets Galore! It’s Friday, 3 June 2011 – Special Bay-Delta Edition
June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The sensationalist title that may attract some and repel others. It’s just that for me, this past week seemed like ‘Bay-Delta Week’. Thus the post’s title. Our Bay-Delta committee had a good meeting in Sacramento. We had a great NRC staff there helping us: Laura Helsabeck, Steve Parker, David Policansky, and Ellen De Guzman. And back [...]
May
27
TGIF-Tweets Galore! It’s Friday, 27 May 2011- Special Memorial Day Weekend Edition
May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here’s wishing you a relaxing weekend. For my USA friends, enjoy the Memorial Day Weekend and recall why we celebrate Memorial Day. Instead of reproducing my individual Tweets here I will just redirect you to my WaterWired blog post. When I try to paste items here from WaterWired, the formatting goes to pieces. Enjoy! “Character [...]
May
13
TGIF-Tweets Galore! It’s Friday, 13 May 2011 – Special Triskadecaphobia Edition
May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment
All you triskadecaphobes: beware Friday the 13th! I’m not bothered – it’s my brthday! Actually, fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia. Climate Change Talking About Really Tough Stuff: Population and Climate Change http://bit.ly/jMMR1c RT @ConorCo @GOOD Watch Australian #climate scientists rap—& swear a lot—about their work. It’s pretty funny, we swear http://su.pr/9RsHgI [...]
Apr
22
TGIF – Tweets Galore, It’s Friday, 22 April 2011
April 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Welcome to the special Earth Day edition of TGIF! It is quite special, unless you think that T. Boone Pickens calling for action on global warming is not quite special! And agreeing with Ted Turner no less! Books An Afternoon With ‘Water’ Author Steven Solomon http://bit.ly/gcLuPdSteven Solomon’s ‘Water’ nominated for LAT book prize in history [...]
Apr
8
TGIF – Tweets Galore! It’s Friday, 8 April 2011
April 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Another week’s worth of Tweets from WaterWired. Books Wal-Mart to Water: Excerpts from Charles Fishman’s New Book ‘The Big Thirst’ http://bit.ly/esmn5T New water book due out 12 April: Charles Fishman’s ‘The Big Thirst’ http://www.thebigthirst.com/ Climate Change Draft CC-FW report to Congress.Comments: tschertz@usgs.gov by 4/22. Include “9506 Report” in subj line. http://1.usa.gov/hZDIxT Paper: Climate Change and [...]
Apr
2
Tweets Galore, It’s…Saturday? 2 April 2011
April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
A day late, but certainly not a dollar short! En route to Fairbanks, for AWRA’s Alaska State Section meeting. Check out the meeting details. April Fools’ Day joke from Salida CO,involving Nestle Waters. http://is.gd/KxOuaV Review and comment on the WaSH Sustainability Charter. http://is.gd/ye8Kge RT @MGHydro UC-R WSPC paper: “Cooperative Institutions for Sustainable Management of Common Pool [...]
Mar
25
Tweets Galore – It’s Friday, 25 March 2011!
March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Here we go again! It’s time for another week’s worth of WaterWired Tweets! RT @ICareAboutWater Why it’s important for the USA to be involved… http://fb.me/HVe02oSM RT @climateprogress Population flight from growing desert of central Texas – http://clmpr.gs/dLhkj8 Via @chanceofraincom Map of radiation plume from Japan. http://is.gd/YGhcs5 Great post about groundwater on Hydro-Logic [@MGhydro] http://is.gd/cTEfHL Sen. [...]
Mar
16
Human Right to Water and Sanitation in the USA
March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Catarina de Albuquerque is a Portuguese lawyer who is a UN Independent Expert on the issues of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation. She undertook a mission to the USA from 22 February to 4 March 2011. What? WatSan access issues? In the USA? C’mon! Yeah – looks like we [...]
Nov
15
AWRA Annual Conference Presentations Now Available
November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The American Water Resources Association is making PDFs of oral presentations from its recently-concluded annual conference available to the public for the next three months. Not all the presentations are available (author’s choice) and some are still being uploaded. Here is the site. The PDFs are generally listed according to session number and author’s last name. [...]
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 [...]
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