It is Veterans' Day here in the USA. WaterWired gives shout-out to those who have served, and are serving, in our armed forces. And a special remembrance and thanks to those vets who made the ultimate sacrifice. I owe them all so much.
It is instructive to recall that Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day to commemorate the signing of the armistice that ended World War I (at least on the Western Front). Hostilities ended on the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. It ended 'the war to end all wars.' Missed that one, didn't we?
The name change to Veterans Day was legally made on 1 June 1954 by Congress.
If all wars are stupid, WWI was especially so. Read The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. All Quiet on the Western Front is an excellent book about WWI from the perspective of the German soliders.
I am also celebrating The Old Pueblo - Tucson, AZ - my first home in the Western USA. I spent almost six years here while attending graduate school at the University of Arizona and teaching at Pima Community College. I am here for the EWB Mountain Region Training Workshop.
Until I drove here in August 1970 at the age of 22 I had not been west of West Virginia. I suffered no 'Eastern USA withdrawal symptoms' - none at all. I immediately fell in love with the Western USA, especially the arid West, and have lived in the West ever since, save for one year in Atlanta in 1983-84.
The first thing that struck me about Tucson was the friendliness of the people, especially store clerks. Smiling, they would ask, 'How may I help you?' As a New Yorker, that blew me away.
Tucson and its metro area are four times larger than when I arrived - 250,000 vs. 1,000,000 - but I still love coming here.
And it probably has more hydrologists per capita- amateur and professional - than any other place in the world.
Okay - here's your weekly water displacement behavior.
Books and Book Reviews
RT @jfleck Interested in water, climate, the West? You'll be wanting to pick up Bill deBuys' A Great Aridness:http://bit.ly/u4rfWs
Climate, Climate Change, and Meteorology
RT @climateprogress Open Thread Plus Population Cartoon of the Week http://bit.ly/u6vWKK
RT @bberwyn And I explored the ever-growing cloud seeding program in #Colorado:http://wp.me/pJ91e-8h5 #water
RT @ClimateTreaty Climate change altering tree mixhttp://bit.ly/rwfGl4
RT @phixod @columbiawater: e360: Interview Susan Long: Thinking the Unthinkable: Engineering Earth’s Climatehttp://bit.ly/uoU9Bj #climate
Via @AGUSciPolicy Is There Case Against Human Caused Global Warming in Peer-Reviewed Literature? http://bit.ly/sPPHEhAnswer? Not really.
RT@ClimateTreaty Floods and Droughts and Sea Level Rise -- California's New Climate and Water Video http://bit.ly/u3cMJ
RT @circleofblue Global warming may be irreversible by 2017 due to #energy demand, economies:@UPI_top http://su.pr/1A1K6e
Conflict and Cooperation
Via @jfleck: Goshute Tribes' effort to save their water from Las Vegas:http://bit.ly/tRoF8m #westwater
Economics
David Zetland, marriage counselor. Via @aguanomics Marriage or decoupling? http://is.gd/GM00XI
Via @PrivateWaterLaw Water Privatization: Villainy or Necessity?http://is.gd/ihdp3h
White Paper: The Value of Water http://bit.ly/t657PB
Ecosystems
How should society pay for services ecosystems provide?http://is.gd/uJrQeK
RT @columbiawater NYT: In Changing Ecosystems, Winners and Losers http://ow.ly/7lmNq #climate
Education
Summary Report: UN International Water Forum (16 Sept. 2011)http://is.gd/kP7Mc3
The Best Multiple-Choice Question Ever! http://bit.ly/rUVkOX
From MT Water Center - free webinars: Water Quality (7 Dec); Land Use and MT Water Resources (14 Dec) http://is.gd/6IoJKc
Energy and Water
Events
AWWA Sustainable Water Management Conference, Portland, OR, 18-21 March 2012. Registration opens 11 Nov. http://is.gd/bMWUtE
Via @chanceofraincom:@PeterGleick testifies against Las Vegas pipeline in Carson City, NV.http://is.gd/IdLynX
Winding Down in Albuquerque Town http://bit.ly/sWlG4J
Glad I fast-tracked new passport. May have to go to Medellin,Colombia during week of 14 November for Water Forum of Americas mtg.
Floods and Droughts
Via @chanceofraincom ABQJournal Online » ‘Megadroughts’ May Recur in Areahttp://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/11/09/news/megadroughts-may-recur-in-area.html via@abqjournal
Funny Stuff
RT @climateprogress Must-See Comic: Happy Climate Change Denial Season!http://bit.ly/rwCh1b
Sunday Funnies! Climate Change: 'Tis the Season to be Folly!http://bit.ly/txz1Pf
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler: Of Bureaucrats and Barristers http://bit.ly/sexSCf
ABQ Hyatt tells guests to turn clock back. They forget to do so; wake-up calls come one hour early. Welcome to NM!
RT @rivrchik @brainpicker: Heh. Calvin and Hobbes on the creative process – damn straighthttp://j.mp/t1vulX (HT@bunkywu)
Groundwater
HuffPost picks up on my 'Groundwater As Rodney Dangerfield: No Respect' post.http://is.gd/TFhptF
Via @NSF Geologists Find Ponds Not the Cause of Arsenic Poisoning in India's Groundwater. http://1.usa.gov/rtnTnf
AWRA BoD unanimously endorses 'Water Supply Well Guidelines for Use in Developing Countries'http://bit.ly/t0niUl @AWRAHQ #AWRA2011
RT @WaterUtilities Rejected desert water pumping plan recycled with 'green' vision to mine Mojave's hidden waters.http://feedzil.la/tyksOn
Hydrofracking
EPA announces final study plan to assess hydrofracking - will evaluate potential impacts on DW.http://is.gd/EGRk0m
Miscellaneous
RT @rivrchik Weird World of Water Gets a Little Weirder (ScienceDaily)http://bit.ly/sXvWvl
When it's scary warm & dry, they say you can actually hear the bark beetles : @jfleck at inkstain http://bit.ly/rwXxgg
Opportunities
Opportunity: AGI Accepting Applications for 2012-2013 W. L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellowship http://is.gd/0qu2ty
Rodney Dangerfield Triumphs! A Groundwater Visualization Contest! http://bit.ly/uT8FrF
Heads Up! Visualizing Groundwater contest - win a month-long signboard display on Times Square! http://is.gd/g0f3bR
Position open: Director of Earth Sciences, NSF Directorate of Geosciences. http://is.gd/XrBSUm
PhD students wanted: Landscape Hydrology, Johns Hopkins University. http://is.gd/O8LJ0F
Position open: U of MI Turner Postdoc - any field of earth science.http://is.gd/Mm42py
Positions open: U of MI faculty (2): Energy/Mineral Resources & Climate Change/Water Sustainability http://is.gd/8jPBu4
Position open: Analytical Geochemist in ICP-MA Lab, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. Lab http://is.gd/PCFNy3
Position open: Post-doc, Center for Environmental Informatics, Penn State University.http://is.gd/IrAqjM
People
I LUV AWRA water people! #AWRA2011
Wonderful seeing @cynthiabarnett,@jfleck @ #AWRA2011 President's Reception tonight. Awaiting her 'Blue Revolution' keynote tomorrow.
Nice day for 'cruise' on the Rio Grande (@jfleck,@cynthiabarnett)!
RT @jfleck fun lunch with @loticwater and @aguanomics - thanks to @WaterWired for bringing all the cool kids to #ABQ for me: #AWRA2011
@NedBreslin Sorry the Tide lost. Quite a game.
Cynthia Barnett at #AWRA2011 and Other Good Momentshttp://bit.ly/tKtG8E
Policy, Planning, and Management
Delaware River Basin Comm: Revised natural gas regs:http://is.gd/LeZz9n 3-page fact sheet: http://is.gd/DXwHgh
It's our 'national water policy'. Kudos to @jfleck ESA Not Right Tool For Water Problems. http://is.gd/lqJN5N
RT @PrivateWaterLaw Aqueduct Partnership to map water risks in Africa's Orange-Senqu Basin -http://bit.ly/rTGpXc
RT @columbiawater High Country News: Presidential candidates are missing the Western issueshttp://bit.ly/u6EO2J #water #southwest
CEQ: National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources In a Changing Climate.http://is.gd/wgIp7G
RT @KavehMadani@WaterSISWEB The California Water Sustainability Indicators Framework http://bit.ly/rxWKoD
RT @MWEcology Canada’s climate change plans to fall short, new study says: http://bit.ly/rqAucKvia @TorontoStar
RT @KavehMadani @WaterSISWEB Managing Future Forests for Water http://bit.ly/uV6WNJ
Twitter, E-newspapers, and E-newsletters
TGIF - Tweets Galore! It's Friday, 4 November 2011 - Special Albuquerque Editionhttp://bit.ly/sheHj6
RT @WorldHygienePrg The Daily WASH is out! http://bit.ly/l3bFmq▸ Top stories today via@tippytap_org @causelife
The @WaterStJournal Daily is out! http://bit.ly/haf8gw ▸ Top stories today via @wanderingtracy@flourandwater @h2oscore@lifefilta
Yes! RT @loticwater @jfleck: i vote "yes" RT @loticwater:@waterwired are we going to use a # for the AWRA conf? #AWRA2011?
RT @jfleck: i vote "yes" RT@loticwater: @waterwired are we going to use a # for the AWRA conf? #AWRA2011?
Should be composing my midterm exam now instead of Tweeting....
The @WaterFootprints Daily is out!http://bit.ly/eDEDnD ▸ Top stories today via @waterwired@waterbizinfo @sfwater@md_basin_auth
WaSH and Developing Regions
Solar-powered toilets. http://is.gd/WWLG59
RT @NedBreslin Great article on@SkollFoundation #socent Kick Start http://zite.to/uheeNp
Water Quality
National Water Quality Monitoring Council's 4th edition of "National Water Monitoring News" http://is.gd/J8yL4p
RT @craigtimes Combined US lawns cover an area as big as FL, making fertilizer's impact a big issue: http://bit.ly/rZ9Zpe via@AddThis
Water Supply and Use
Via @columbiawater Managing growing world population w/ shrinking water supply w/ Upmanu Lall, Jeff Sachshttp://on.msnbc.com/usRPkQ
RT @WaterUtilities OUC hires water cops: For 1st time, Orlando utility is sending out sprinkler patrols. http://feedzil.la/w5fwzy
Via @GrowingBlue Where your state ranks in terms of M&I,agricultural #water use w/ Growing Blue Tool:http://cot.ag/jZKI4G
RT @columbiawater E360: Australian student gets Dyson Award for device harvesting moisture from air for irrigationhttp://bit.ly/vIHvxK
"You know you live in Tucson when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet.: ~Unknown
"A three-inch rain in Tucson means three inches between drops." ~Local Saying
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