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On June 5, I participated in a public forum organized by the US Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, DC.  The purpose of the public meeting was to gather input regarding the revisions of the Corps’ Principles and Guildelines (P&G).  The attendance at the meeting was not overwhelming, but many organizations were represented and I […]

Have you ever thought that an industrial waterfront user would have something in common with a riverkeeper or environmental conservation organization?
 
Recently a partnership of the three Philadelphia Region waterfront authorities (Delaware River Port Authority, South Jersey Port Corporation and the Philadelphia Region Port Authority) collaborated, and developed a Green Ports Initiative with the purpose of […]

Jerry Sehlke just posted about a national water vision for the US, and what happens? A Congressman takes him up on that!
Rep. John Linder (R-GA), who represents Georgia’s 7th District, the northeast suburbs of Atlanta (Gwinnett County and environs), has seen his bill H.R. 135 to establish a “21st Century Water Commission” get voted out […]

Several months ago now, facing the cold, wet, foggy, dreary and long 28 days in the dreaded month of February and desperate for a diversion, I proposed in the AWRA e-newsletter, Connections, a film festival to be held in each of our homes, and I provided a list of 28 films (mostly readily available) in which water […]

Brown and Caldwell has published a special Earth Day edition of its Water News.
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read ‘President Can’t Swim’.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

Colleague Patrick Griffiths of the City of Bend alerted me to this information, which is from the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources (www.abanet.org/environ/best/).
The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources recognizes the following paper submissions as the “Best Papers” prepared for the 37th Annual Conference on Environmental Law (Keystone), 26th Annual Water […]

Compensatory Mitigation for Losses of Aquatic Resources: Final Rule
Army Corps and EPA Improve Wetland and Stream Mitigation

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From Tara Lohan (tara@alternet.org), Managing Editor of AlterNet:
On the heels of World Water Day last week, we launched AlterNet’s new free weekly email newsletter dedicated to water issues. You can sign up here and get the latest news, commentary, video and more in your inbox every Thursday. Thanks to those of you who have already […]

I just finished a two-day workshop of the WATERS (WATer and Environmental Resource Systems) Network, a group of academics that has been working for three years to develop a large proposal to secure Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) funding (c. $300,000,000) from the National Science Foundation for a hydrologic observatory infrastructure to permit the kind of investigations that cannot […]

The current (20 March 2008)  issue of Nature (http://www.nature.com/news/specials/water/index.html) is devoted to “Water: Under Pressure”. You will likely have to pay for full article access/downloads.
Here is a description of the contents:
Over a billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and over two billion have little or no sanitation. Do we have the […]

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