Mar
28
Dr. Rita Colwell Awarded 2010 Stockholm Water Prize
March 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
Dr. Rita Colwell, a professor at the University of Maryland and at the Johns Hopkins University, has been awarded the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize.
The prize, awarded by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), is sometimes referred to as water’s Nobel Prize.
From the prize’s WWW site:
Dr. Colwell, 76, is widely recognized as one of this century’s [...]
Mar
18
Asit K. Biswas Lecture: Global Water Crisis – Myth or Reality?
March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Thanks to Daniel Collins at Cr!key Creek for alerting me to this. Here is what Daniel says about Dr. Biswas’ lecture:
Asit Biswas, an expert in international water resource management, has changed his mind. He no longer believes a world water crisis is a crisis of physical supply. It is, instead, a crisis of management. He [...]
Feb
27
JHU Professor M.G. ‘Reds’ Wolman Dead at 85
February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Professor M. Gordon ‘Reds’ Wolman of the John Hopkins University, died on 24 February 2010 at the age of 85. Reds (as he was known to everyone) was not only an extraordinary river scientist but an equally impressive human being. His death indeed leaves a void in our water resources discipline.
He had been on the faculty [...]
Jul
30
Playing with Water – Vacation Spots for Water Lovers
July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Regular readers of AWRA’s e-newsletter, Connections, know that I occasionally pose a question or make a request that is water related, but in more of a tangential, non-technical way. Together we have created a long list of films with water as a theme, setting, plot device, or even a character. We have also created a diverse [...]
Apr
27
Peter Gleick Starts ‘City Brights: Water By Numbers’ Blog
April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Dr. Peter Gleick, President and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, has started a blog, City Brights: Water By Numbers.
Here is an excerpt from his inaugural post:
Welcome to the first post to my City Brights blog. I look forward to sharing with you some of my thoughts about the water challenges facing California, the West, [...]
Feb
12
A-Roid and Aquifers: A Connection?
February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Alex Rodríguez linked to aquifers? What’s up?
Check out this (thanks to Josh Newton) Sports Illustrated article by Tom Verducci, who co-authored The Yankee Years with Joe Torre. Here is the final paragraph; read the last sentence:
Rodríguez’s hope is that this managed interview will put his drug use in “a vault,” he said, so he can [...]
Jan
11
The Aquadoc ‘Kiss of Death’: Dr. Robert M. Hirsch for USGS Director
January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Okay, you’re saying – what do I have against USGS water maven Dr. Bob Hirsch? After all, my failures (so far) to get Peter Gleick appointed White House Water Advisor, Pat Mulroy named U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner, and Gerry Galloway selected as Assistant Secretary of the Army, Civil Works, are well-known.
I also wanted to see Gov. Bill Richardson [...]
Dec
9
Water Policy Dialogue Results
December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments
Hello Water Resources Professionals:
Attached are two files: One that is a rather lengthy document that includes the results of the September 2008 AWRA Water Policy Dialogue held in Washington DC, cosponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, and the ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute. For those of you who like a shorter rendition, I have [...]
Nov
23
Impending Water Quality Crisis in South Africa? CSIR Suspends Whistleblower Dr. Tony Turton
November 23, 2008 | 10 Comments
I just learned from colleague Aaron Wolf that Dr. Anthony “Tony” Turton, one of the world’s top experts on hydropolitics and transboundary water resources and one of the movers in the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters, has been suspended by the Council on Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) after he sounded the alarm on an [...]
Nov
9
Peter H. Gleick for White House Water Advisor
November 9, 2008 | 6 Comments
[Note: as the disclaimer above says, this is my opinion and not that of AWRA.]
No sense beating around the bush: we’ve got some serious water issues facing the USA (and the world). If I have to enumerate them, then you’ve been living under a rock or not reading this blog, or both. Paramount among these [...]
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