Dec
10
Dr. Peter Gleick Testifies on National Water Policy Before Senate Subcommittee
December 10, 2011 | 3 Comments
Dr. Peter Gleick, like another renowned water expert, Dr. Aaron Salzberg, testified before a Senate subcommittee on 8 December 2011. The following is from a Pacific Institute news release: Pacific Institute President Dr. Peter Gleick presented a set of recommendations to Congress on Thursday for a more effective and sustainable 21st-century national water policy. Dr. Gleick, one of the world’s [...]
May
3
A National Water Vision? AWRA’s Position
May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment
AWRA Technical Director Dick Engberg gave this presentation at the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable meeting at American University last week. Download SWRR2011-5 You can read AWRA’s policy statements here. Read about AWRA’s four previous National Water Policy Dialogues. Note slide #9: What a national water vision isn’t - a law or policy. Today’s quotes are courtesy [...]
Nov
30
Bruce Babbitt: America’s ‘Leninist’ Water Policy
November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I received this from friend and fellow 25/8 WaterWonk Elaine Hebard from the Land of Enchantment. There was no link provided to the text so I do not know whence it came; I suspect it is from Global Water Intelligence. Babbitt made the comments at GWI’s American Water Summit, held a few weeks ago in [...]
Jul
19
Should Selenium Be Regulated?
July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
When Lloyd Carter recently (11 June 2010) interviewed EPA Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld on his radio show Down in the Valley (on KFCF-FM) one of the items he pressed Blumenfeld on was the regulation of selenium (see my 22 June 2010 WaterWired post). Blumenfeld seemed interested in this issue. Carter just sent me a copy of a recent [...]
Oct
23
A Nobel Laureate for Us Common WaterWonks
October 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
It is not too often that those of us in the water community can claim some disciplinary kinship with a Nobel Laureate, especially one from the economics realm. But this year we can take pride in seeing Elinor (Lin) Ostrom of Indiana University share the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is the first woman to [...]
Aug
26
No sooner had I posted my assessment (10 August 2009) of a draft version of the Sustainable Watershed Planning Act than a new, improved version popped up in my inbox. It has taken me a while to get through this second version; a lot of changes have been made. The proposed Office of Sustainable Watershed Management (OSWM) [...]
Aug
11
A colleague recently sent me a copy of the Sustainable Watershed Planning Act, a bill that may be considered by the U.S. House of Representative’s Water Resources and the Environment Subcommittee of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I say “may be” because the bill does not yet have a number and the copy I have [...]
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 [...]
Jan
9
A Water Strategy for the United States By Jim Thebaut and Erik Webb Those Americans even aware of Zimbabwe’s recent fight against the disruption and death caused by cholera, a highly treatable water-borne disease, carry an unfounded confidence that clean, abundant water will always be available and a similar water-borne disease epidemic could never occur [...]
Jan
9
Podcast Archive: Third Water Resources Policy Dialogue (2007)
January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
DIALOGUE DAY # 1 Dialogue Opening Remarks .MP3 Richard A. Engberg – Opening Remarks .MP3 Gerry Galloway – Opening Remarks Panel 1 – Federal Agency Perspectives on Water Policy .MP3 Robert M. Hirsch – US Geological Survey .MP3 Benjamin H. Grumbles – US Environmental Protection Agency .MP3 Arlen Lancaster – Natural Resources Conservation Service .MP3 [...]
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