Mar
7
Congressional Water Caucus-Running Dry DC Water Events Resheduled for 16-17 June 2010
March 7, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Jim Thebaut just informed me that the two DC water events originally scheduled for 24 February 2010 will now occur on 16 and 17 June, 2010. Click here for more information on venues and details.
1) The evening session (6 – 8 PM) on 16 June will feature the Congressional Water Caucus and the Chronicles Group/Running Dry Project event: How about Water: The Catalyst on Nation Building and National Security.
Please RSVP at 310-833-1020 or rsvp@runningdry.org
2) At lunchtime (noon – 2 PM) on 17 June The Chronicles Group/Running Dry Project and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in association with the Embassy of Australia and the CSIS Global Water Futures Project will present a panel discussion on: Coping with Drought & Water Scarcity: Lessons Learned from Australia and the United States.
Please RSVP at water@csis.org
Download Flyer_Lunch_Panel_Event_Final_3_5_10
Visit the Running Dry Project where you can get complete details and view a trailer.
” Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
Mar
4
Position Announcement: President, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana – Zamorano (Honduras)
March 4, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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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 this here? Simply because we all know of the close connection between food and water. In addition, in the past 15-20 years, Zamorano has moved from a traditional ‘feed ‘em and weigh ‘em’ ag school to one with a broader perspective (environment and water). It was founded by United Fruit Company but is no longer is affiliated with the firm, now known as Chiquita Brands International. I know and have worked with some of its excellent faculty, in particular, Luis Caballero and Robert Walle.
Candidates must possess an earned PhD or equivalent and fluency in Spanish and English.
Position descriptions (English and Spanish) and a search profile (English) are posted below.
Download HES_Zamorano_Ad_Final_pdf
Download HES_Zamorano_Ad_Final_Spanish_pdf
Download HESZamoranoProfile_pdf
Exciting opportunity. Oh, to be fluent in Spanish!
Thanks to my friend Rolando López for sending me this information.
‘Aprender haciendo.’ - Zamorano philosophy (’Learning by doing’)
Mar
3
Review: Steven Solomon’s ‘Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization’
March 3, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Earlier this year I posted my‘non-review’ of Steven Solomon’s book, Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization. It took me a while to get around to it but I finished it about a week ago and have been letting it ’settle’ before penning this review.
Here are earlier reviews from The Economist, the Seattle Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The National Interest:
Download National_Interest,_February_23,_2010
Here is Solomon’s rebuttal to The Economist’s review.
I have to admit that I was afraid that I would not be in the right frame of mind to read it and provide an objective review. As I alluded to in my earlier post I was nearing ‘water wars burn-out’ and thought that might color my review.
But I’m over that now and even reviewing some chapters for a friend’s water book. Bring ‘em on!
My brief assessment: read it! I enjoyed it and recommend it highly. It’s well-written and well-documented: almost 100 pages (out of about 600) of notes, citations, and index. The book was reminiscent of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel.
Now, the details.
Solomon’s book has done what no recent water book has done, and that’s provide a ‘history of water’, or more correctly, the role of water in world history. Some reviewers and commenters have said he spends too much time on the past and not enough time on the present and future, including more solutions. Well, duh….it’s first and foremost a history book.
Sure, we’ve heard about the ancient Egyptians and the Nile, the Chinese and their amazing Grand Canal, the Romans and their aqueducts (some of which still function today), the Indus River civilization, the Europeans (especially the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English) , and the USA’s own ‘hydraulic civilization’ in its West, etc. Solomon writes about all these things and more, viewing them through a watery lens (as The Economist’s reviewer said). Fully 75% of the book is devoted to world history and water’s important role in shaping it.
Solomon has been criticized for attributing too much historical significance to water. My take: that is what Solomon wanted to do. I suspect such criticism would be true of any author writing a history book that focuses on one item’s role. Perhaps Solomon is guilty of assigning water too big a role in the fall of the Roman empire. Or maybe I missed something in Mr. Swartz’s World History class. But then again, Mr. Swartz was hired to coach the varsity basketball team, not to teach history.
A few things I really enjoyed. The invention of the water wheel to do work (grinding grain). China’s extraordinary Grand Canal, far bigger than I remembered, one China is trying to recreate today with its south-to-north water transfer. James Watt’s improved steam engine (he greatly improved Thomas Newcomen’s design) and its significance. The sanitary breakthrough. He gives the Erie Canal and DeWitt Clinton their due, something we seem to forget about in the USA. The canal linked the Atlantic with the Great Lakes and the Midwest and helped propel New York City past Philadelphia as the USA’s major city. I grew up in New York, so you can bet we learned about the Erie Canal.
A few other things struck me. Despite his treatment of England’s canal-building binge there was no mention of William Smith’s role in it. Smith is credited with the first geologic map (see Simon Winchester’s The Map That Changed the World) and he used his knowledge of geology to locate canals. When discussing the California gold rush Solomon missed a chance to introduce prior appropriation, now the basis for Western USA water law (he does introduce this concept later).
The last quarter of the book is devoted to the current situation (’The Age of Scarcity’) and the water issues facing the world. This part starts off with the chapter ‘Water: The New Oil.” Ugh. Solomon then explains why water isn’t the new oil, which is good. For one thing, as he points out, water is irreplaceable (at least as far as its life-sustaining properties are concerned), whereas oil is. The Seattle Times reviewer got it right: oil was the new water for the past 100 years or so; now, water’s back, and it’s reclaimed its rightful place. Also, unlike oil, the world’s supply of water has been more or less constant lo these millions and millions of years, whereas oil started running out once someone figured out they could burn it. We are not running out of water, we are wasting, fouling, and mismanaging it.
The last part focuses heavily on the Middle East (including the Nile Basin) and Asia. Excessive groundwater pumping. Melting glaciers. Upstream water projects threatening downstream users. Egypt’s dependence on the Nile. China’s unrepentant ‘hard-path’ approach. It’s here that the potential for conflict arises:
Consider what will happen in water-distressed, nuclear-armed, terrorist-besieged, overpopulated, heavily irrigation dependent and already politically unstable Pakistan when its single water lifeline, the Indus river, loses a third of its flow from the disappearance from its glacial water source.
He expects we’ll be seeing water wars before this century concludes.
The very last chapter focuses on the new politics of water in the industrial democracies. Solomon believes we can meet the challenges facing us. He is a believer in ’soft-path’ approaches and decries the USA’s adherence to ‘politically entrenched and outmoded practices.’ He lauds the approach in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin.
And he does get the food-energy-water-climate nexus (ooops!).
We also need new approaches to foreign policy, ones that recognize the role of water in national agendas.
The chapter concludes with a discussion of the water Haves and Have-Nots and the gap needs to be closed.
I have the distinct impression that Solomon is optimistic that the USA will get its water act together. My opinion on that changes daily.
Solomon could have ended it there, but his Epilogue summarizes and ties it together. He notes that all of history’s water breakthoughs have fallen into four traditional categories of use: domestic needs, economic production, power generation, and transportation or strategic advantage. But now, there is a fifth category:
…how to innovate new governing organizations and technical applications that make available sufficient supplies of freshwater for man’s essential purposes in an environmentally sustainable manner and relieves the scarcity of an increasingly thirsty planet.
That is the grand challenge of the 21st century.
Excellent book! The historical aspect alone makes it worth reading and keeping. And yes, I did purchase my copy.
Oh, yeah – Solomon does look like Larry David’s serene, better-looking, younger brother.
“Always drink upstream from the herd.” — Unknown
Feb
27
JHU Professor M.G. ‘Reds’ Wolman Dead at 85
February 27, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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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 of JHU since 1958. He was the son of equally legendary Abel Wolman, renowned scientist, inventor, and sanitary engineer (we call them ‘environmental engineers’ today).
Reds was a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
For the first time since 1937, there is no ‘Wolman’ on the JHU faculty.
Here is the announcement from JHU.
Below is a tribute written by his JHU colleague, Dr. Peter Wilcock.
M. Gordon (Reds) Wolman
August 16, 1924 – February 24, 2010
Prof. Wolman’s career was defined by fundamental contributions to our understanding of rivers, supported by pioneering work in developing interdisciplinary environmental education and an extraordinary commitment to the application of research to river management and policy.
In his Ph.D. research at Harvard University and subsequent work with Luna Leopold at the U.S. Geological Survey, Prof. Wolman played a central role in defining rivers in a modern, quantitative and generalizable framework that still provides the standard against which new models and concepts are evaluated. The understanding and the methods developed in this work form the foundation of modern river geomorphology, engineering, and restoration. Building on this work, Prof. Wolman addressed a fundamental problem in river science: the magnitude and frequency of the processes that shape rivers and their ecosystems. Is it the rare and destructive storm that sets the size, shape and composition of river channels, or the small, persistent flows, or something in between? With his colleague John Miller, Prof. Wolman demonstrated that relatively common floods do the most work in shaping river channels and, further, that there is remarkable consistency in the frequency of these ‘effective’ floods. This result has guided interpretation of rivers and challenged river theory for the past 50 years, while also providing a key element of modern channel restoration and design. Prof. Wolman’s contribution extends to the pervasive impact of urbanization on rivers. With his colleague Asher Schick, he documented the impact of urbanization on stream channels, developing a characteristic sequence of events that defines the standard model against which impacts and remediation are evaluated.
Committed to the idea that environmental stewardship requires knowledge that is both deep and broad, Reds played a leading role—by personal example, by academic leadership at Johns Hopkins University, and by advising many academic and research programs—in defining the nature and scope of effective, rigorous, and interdisciplinary environmental education.
The link between science and society was not an abstract theme for Reds, but a path to action. Reds contributed sustained service and frequent chairmanship of National Academy Commissions, Boards, and Committees dealing with water management and policy. He also provided expert guidance to Resources for the Future, the World Health Organization, the International Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Savannah River Plant, and the State of Maryland among others. His indefatigable service, combined with his good-natured wisdom, influenced environmental decisions and decision-makers around the world.
For those who knew him, Reds’ professional accomplishments merely provide context for his greater personal contributions through his inspired combination of warmth, wit, and genuine affection for all he came into contact with.
The whole exceeded the sum of the parts. Reds was a distinguished scholar who played a central role in defining our modern understanding of rivers, a visionary academic who pioneered integrated environmental education, a devoted citizen who worked tirelessly to apply an understanding of rivers to their protection and wise use, and an extraordinary human being who inspired and delighted generations of students and colleagues, all friends.
“Reds has a very rare combination of crystalline intelligence, brilliance, commitment to students, charm, and modesty.” – Gordon Grant, JHU PhD (1986), U.S. Forest Service
Feb
22
Final Agenda: Capitol Hill Briefing on University WASH Initiative on 3 March 2010
February 22, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Recently I posted on this event. The date is now firm and the final agenda is now available:
Download University WASH 3-3 event final agenda 2010-02-05
I will be serving as a panelist.
Prominent university and college leaders working on international water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues will participate in a congressional briefing on a new University WASH Initiative from 2:00-4:00 p.m. on March 3, 2010, in Room SVC 203/202 of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Presentations will feature the variety of ways in which U.S. colleges and universities are already addressing the global WASH crisis and will highlight how their role can be enhanced, especially through a new informal WASH collaboration among American institutions of higher education. The presentations and briefing are open to Members of Congress, Congressional staff, and interested members of the public. To RSVP, email name and contact information to universities.wash.rsvp@gmail.com.
USAID and State Department officials will be in attendance. Some Members of Congress may be present as well.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies and Water Advocates are co-sponsoring this event. Colorado State University and Emory University are the academic leads. All four organizations deserve our gratitude for arranging this.
In brief, we’re trying to get universities’ “feet in the door” when it comes to WASH development work.
Hope to see you there.
“Water is H20, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing that makes water and nobody knows what that is.” – D.H. Lawrence, 1929
Feb
20
New Mexico Exempt Well Case Appeal: 22 February 2010
February 20, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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In July 2008 I posted about the Bounds decision in which a state judge in New Mexico struck down that state’s law allowing the drilling of domestic wells without a permit or water right – so-called ‘exempt’ wells. The ruling applied only to Luna, Hidalgo, and Grant counties in the southwest portion of the state.
Although it applied only to three counties, it was quite a stunning decision, not just in New Mexico, but throughout the West.
The case is finally coming before the New Mexico Court of Appeals, which will hear an oral argument on 22 February 2010.
From Lora Lucero (via Leslie Kryder), Natural Resources Director of the League of Women Voters of New Mexico:
The New Mexico Court of Appeals will be hearing oral argument next Monday (Feb.22) at 2:00 pm which may interest planners and members of the public concerned about growth management issues.
In July 2008, the district court ruled that Sec. 72-12-1.1 (domestic well statute) is unconstitutional because the State Engineer believes the law required him to issue permits for domestic wells without notice to senior water rights holders, or without any consideration of impairment.
The State Engineer appealed that decision and the NM Association of Counties submitted an amicus brief that explains the disconnect between Sec. 72-12-1.1 and the counties’ responsibility to plan and manage future growth.
Both the district court decision and the amicus brief are attached.
The oral argument is open to the public. The court of appeals is located in Albuquerque behind the UNM School of Medicine, next to the School of Law.
Download FinalJudgment.Decision.Bounds
Download NMAC_amicus_brief_in_Bounds_case
I know I often say, ‘This will be interesting,’ but boy, will this REALLY be interesting! Although it applies to three small counties in New Mexico, a lot of people will be sticking their index fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing once a decision is rendered.
Some may also be sticking another finger in the air after the court hands down its decision.
“Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.* – Unknown
Feb
17
Message From the President
February 17, 2010 | Posted by smcclung
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Ari M. Michelsen, President AWRA
At its January 22, 2010, meeting, the AWRA Board of Directors (BOD) voted unanimously to donate $1,000 to Mercy Corps’ Haitian earthquake relief effort. Board members have made additional donations. Mercy Corps had a presence in Haiti prior to the earthquake and is now, with experienced on-the-ground first responders, focusing on immediate humanitarian needs: securing clean water, proper sanitation, and trauma support. More information about Mercy Corps is available at www.mercycorps.org.
AWRA Position Statements Adopted
Also at the January BOD meeting, two position statements for AWRA, developed by the membership through the Policy Committee, were reviewed and approved. The recommendations in these statements are to manage water resources in a hydrologic context and to ensure sustainable funding for water resources infrastructure. Specifically the statements are: (1) The AWRA recommends that water resources management goals, policies and rules be organized around the concept of “place” (i.e., basins, watersheds, or aquifer systems). Policymakers should encourage policies and collaborations that promote hydrologic system-based planning and management; and (2) The AWRA recommends that policy makers at national, tribal, state, and local levels develop sustainable investment strategies for the construction and maintenance of water and wastewater resources infrastructure to protect public health, quality of life, communities, economies, and the environment. The complete text of these position statements is available on the web at http://awra.org. These are just the first in a series of statements conveying AWRA positions and efforts to advance multidisciplinary water resources science, education, management, and policy. During the next several months the Policy Committee will be developing several more position statements. Your participation in the development of our organization’s position statements is welcome and strongly encouraged. Go to the AWRA Technical Committees web site section (Membership/Technical Committee) to see the list of Technical Committees and contact terry@ awra.org if you would like to join a Committee.
National Water Resources Vision
In the United States (U.S.), water-resources related roles, responsibilities and authorities are shared or divided between local, state, tribal, and federal governments and the private sector. The federal government has more than 20 agencies responsible for understanding and managing water resources. Each state and many tribes have one or more agencies responsible for managing water resources within their areas of jurisdiction. Additionally, hundreds, if not thousands of private-sector water companies and organizations manage water resources within the U.S. Clearly federal, state, and tribal governments each have specific roles, responsibilities and authorities for managing water resources under their jurisdiction and, clearly, each entity must fulfill its jurisdiction-specific role, responsibilities, and authorities. Many have raised the question of whether water resources programs should be managed independently from one another or whether they should or can be managed more efficiency and effectively for all parties concerned if we could collectively develop an overarching national water vision that promotes a better understanding and better coordination and cooperation among federal, state, and tribal governments, and among the various states. What might a national water vision look like? An example of a national vision for water related to quality was/is the goal of making our nation’s water “fishable, swimmable, drinkable.”
What are the arguments for and against a national water vision? One argument is that a national water vision is necessary to develop and manage our water resources in a systematic, efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective manner. A counter-argument is that water resources are the purview of the states and no national water vision or policy is needed. Another argument promotes a hybrid approach (e.g., a national vision relative to federal interests and independent visions or plans for each state, territory and tribe relative to the resources within its domain).
AWRA has been involved in these and similar discussions for more than a decade through its publications, conferences, and facilitation of four National Water Policy Dialogues (see http://www.awra.org/meetings/conference_series/policy_dialogue.html). Discussions and assessments at the Dialogues focused not only on promoting cooperation and coordination among federal, state, and tribal agencies, but also on whether the U.S. should develop a national water vision, policy, or plan.
AWRA and our sister national professional water resources associations have combined our efforts to facilitate a discussion that gets to the very core of future water resources management in the U.S. That is: should there be a national water resources vision and, if so, what should that vision be? Under the leadership of Jerry Sehlke, AWRA Past-President, a web site was established in collaboration with other professional water resources associations to solicit thoughts and have discussion on this important issue. The results of this discussion, whether a consensus is developed or if we just decide to “agree to disagree,” will be summarized, and made available for AWRA membership, partner associations, and public access. The results should prove to be very interesting!
Community, Conversation, Connections
A very special event being held this spring is the GIS Specialty Symposium in Orlando, Florida, March 29-31. This is the sixth in a series offered by AWRA recognizing advances in, and the importance of GIS as a fundamental tool for interdisciplinary analysis, planning, and management of water resource systems. The conference committee has put together a dynamite program with an outstanding slate of technical sessions. Later in the year the Summer Specialty Conference will bring together water resource professionals to address Tropical Hydrology and Sustainable Water Resources in a Changing Climate, August 30-September 1, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Information is available at http://awra.org. I look forward to seeing you at one or both of these Symposiums. a-michelsen@ag.tamu.edu
Feb
6
Two DC Water Events on 24 February 2010 – Postponed
February 6, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Note: these events have been postponed and will be rescheduled in a few weeks.
Over at WaterWired I posted about Jim Thebaut’s water event scheduled for 24 February 2010 in Washington, 
DC. The event will be held, but it’s now been split into two events, one in the afternoon (noon – 2 pm) and one in the evening (6 – 8:30 pm).
[Disclosure notice: Jim is a good friend of mine, and the followng iss based on information posted on his WWW site and from CSIS. I will be involved in these events.]
Here goes:
1) The Chronicles Group/Running Dry Project and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in association with the Embassy of Australia and the CSIS Global Water Futures Project present:
Coping with Drought & Water Scarcity: Lessons Learned from Australia & the United States
WHAT: A lunch/panel discussion of what actions we need to take to tackle our unsustainable water future
WHEN: 24 February 2010, noon to 2:00 pm
WHERE: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006, B-1 Conference Center (link to map)
2) The lunch/panel discussion is a prelude to the 24 February evening event which will be held at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Auditorium from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm and will feature a special screening of Jim’s film Running Dry: Beyond the Brink.How About Water: The Catalyst on Nation Building and National Security
On Wednesday, 24 February 2010, from 6 – 8:30 pm the Congressional Water Caucus and the Chronicles Group/Running Dry Project in association with the Embassy of Australia and the CSIS Global Water Futures Project are hosting an event to bring the Executive and Legislative Branches of the U.S. Government together with the public and private sector in order to provide an educational dialogue about drought and water scarcity and its ultimate impact on national security. Congressional sponsors include Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Rep. John Linder (R-GA), co-founder of the Congressional Water Caucus), Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA), Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA), and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI). Non-Congressional sponsors include the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg LLP, Golden State Water Company, Water Replenishment District of Southern California, StableRoad.org, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Acequia, Mesa Elementary School, Oregon State University, Water Charity. A special thanks also go to Water for People for their 
ongoing support – and to actress Jane Seymour, who will be a special guest at the event which will be held at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Auditorium, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
This promises to be an exciting day in water. Be sure to attend. I will see you there.
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” – Voltaire
Feb
3
Hydrophilanthropists Needed in Haiti
February 3, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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I received the following message from Lori Carpenter, a longtime friend and former student (an alumna of my GEOL 484/684 – Groundwater Hydrology at the University of Nevada-Reno many years ago). I know Lori and her husband Dr. Clay Cooper, another veteran of GEOL 484/684 as well as GEOL 783 – Groundwater Hydraulics, very well. They have adpoted five children. Remarkable people.
Anyway, Lori’s looking for some folks to go to Haiti to locate and drill water wells. If you have questions, please contact her, not me. Contact information is at the bottom of the post. You might contact her before applying to see if she has enough volunteers.
Here is Lori’s message:
I’m on a board of directors of a Haitian orphanage called God’s Littlest Angels Haitian Baby Ministry (GLA).
We’ve been on the ground for more than 6 years and have the opportunity to drill ten community groundwater wells in Haiti. Another Board member has a potential grant from the Canadian government to cover much or most if not all the materials and expense costs. I’m trying to find volunteers (or, very cheap) and very competent groundwater folks to do the actual technical work. Would you please put this out in any circles that you know of? I can personally attest for the integrity of GLA.
Here is the message from GLA:
Qualified Volunteer Hydrologists, Well Drillers, Geologists and/or Hydrogeologists Needed for Well Drilling in Haiti to Develop and Implement Community Drinking Water Wells/Systems
God’s Littlest Angels Haitian Baby Ministry (GLA) is a faith-based ministry located in Haiti and seeks qualified VOLUNTEER hydrologists, well drillers, and/or hydrogeologists to site groundwater well locations, conduct groundwater reconnaissance studies, plan and implement a water resources plan for drilling/pumping for production wells within ten small Haitian communities after the 7.0 earthquake (outside of Port-Au-Prince). Drilling equipment may need to be imported to the Island as much was lost and/or destroyed. Volunteers are expected to manage as much of the travel cost themselves and/or raise funds to cover costs associated with “pay”. Room and board (to include security details) will be provided in country. Please list experience with projects in similar (disaster) situations whereby little local infrastructure was present to assist, references, and general qualifications why you believe you or your organization is a good candidate for this project. The first group of volunteers should be ready to deploy within 30 to 90 days depending on local situations and a second group could be expected to deploy thereafter.
Please send resumes to lori@nvwetlands.com
Lori Carpenter, PWS, CPESC
Huffman & Carpenter, Inc.
Hydrologist/Hydrogeologist
500 Damonte Ranch Parkway, Suite 929
Reno, Nevada 89521
(775) 828-1991
(775) 828-2302 – Fax
“Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die.” – II Samuel 14
Jan
30
Capitol Hill Briefing on University WASH Initiative – 3 March 2010
January 30, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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This is one of those ’save the date’ notices. I will post more information when I receive it.
[Disclosure notice: I am part of this initiative and will be a presenter]
Capitol Hill Briefing on new University WASH Initiative
Prominent university and college leaders working on international water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues will participate in a congressional briefing on a new University WASH Initiative from 2:00-4:00 p.m. on March 3, 2010, in Room SVC 203/202 of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center. Presentations will feature the variety of ways in which U.S. colleges and universities are already addressing the global WASH crisis and will highlight how their role can be enhanced, especially through a new informal WASH collaboration among American institutions of higher education. The presentations and briefing are open to Members of Congress, Congressional staff, and interested members of the public.
To RSVP, email name and contact information to universities.wash.rsvp@gmail.com
The Center for Strategic and International Studies and Water Advocates are co-sponsoring this event. Colorado State University and Emory University are the academic leads.
We owe a great deal to the aforementioned organizations for providing the impetus. Some of us have been waiting for this initiative for years.
Hope to see you there!
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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