Tweets Galore - It's Friday, 25 March 2011!

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. Paul Simon Water for the World Act Gets Another Life http://bit.ly/gXhBM7

From @jfleck: Mulroy channels Powell (John Wesley, not Dead Pool's James) http://is.gd/AvjwaC

Climate Progress: Berkeley Temperature Study Results Confirm Global Warming http://bit.ly/ep3Qsq

Too Many Broken Wells, Too Many Dashed Hopes http://bit.ly/gxSI0W

Via @Water Too many broken wells, Part 1 of 4 http://is.gd/cmiEWg

RT @circleofblue #Georgia gov. encouraged by early talks in #water dispute:Florida Wires http://su.pr/2lC2m0

Opining on World Water Day, Battle: Los Angeles, Rango, and a Few Good Hydrophilanthropies http://bit.ly/gys9an

Fascinating article -The Scale of Nature:Modeling the Mississippi River. http://is.gd/W6NVsD

Graph: Effects of the Japanese Earthquake on Index Well J-17, Edwards Aquifer,Texas http://bit.ly/eDRP0u

USA scientist Stephen Carpenter (U of WI) awarded 2011 Stockholm Water Prize, water's 'Nobel Prize'. http://is.gd/LA5AVk

Via @ExplodingSoul Too Many Broken Wells, Part 2 of 4 http://bit.ly/dSNlt7

RT @wanderingtracy NatGeo has a great special #water issue out now, so check it out! http://bit.ly/hhmhgH

South Florida Wells Record Japanese Earthquake http://bit.ly/e0qv2T

Stop the presses! IFPRI-Veolia report on threats to world's FW supply. http://bit.ly/fgHtyj

Modeling the Mississippi: The USACE's Physical Model http://bit.ly/fmj9xm

 Happy 80th Birthday to Bill Ashe, Hydrophilanthropist and Human Being Extraordinaire http://bit.ly/h64kHq

The Mekong River: Record of the Vietnam War http://bit.ly/hpu8Rx

50 best blogs for conservation-studies students (@WaterWired, @Aguanomics, E. Royte, NGWA,et al.) http://bit.ly/h5JvAT

RT @MGhydro @climateprogress NOAA says GOP's proposed satellite funding cuts could halve accuracy of precip forecasts http://clmpr.gs/hYkjf2

@TheWaterChannel: new look and content. http://bit.ly/i3CCUN

And I'll close this with a quote I Tweeted:

"The biggest problem in the environment is people's quest to find the biggest problem in the environment." -- Jared Diamond (thanks to Sam Luoma)

Comments

[Emily Green]

Thanks for re-tweeting the item about the plume from Japan. For the first time in more than two years of editing my blog, I deleted the post because the rate of hits skyrocketed into the thousands per day and a stream of comments were by and large from conspiracy theorists to do with how we were being put at risk by shadowy government mandarins. I took this to be the same group of people who were clearing shelves of Potassium idodide needed in Japan. The overwhelming numbers of hits from the passive and selfish and self-righteons versus normal traffic from environmentally minded readers was depressing, to say the least. As an inadvertent and admittedly uncontrolled poll, the former outnumber the latter roughly 25 to 1. I did however leave the following links:

for people worried about ambient radiation in California, Air Quality Management Districts: http://www.aqmd.gov/news1/2011/Radiationmonitoring.htm

For nationwide monitoring: EPA's RadNet http://epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-losangeles-bg.html

For a superb follow up piece by NPR on the Comprehensive Test Ban Organization's ability to generate a plume monitoring model:
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134833909/built-for-bombs-sensors-now-track-japan-radiation

For those interested in the weather conditions in Japan, here is a link for the Japan Meterological Agency New Service:

http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/News/indexe_news.html