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Quote of the Day - Fluoride Follies: Studying the Studies That...

I am now reading The Fluoride Wars by R. Allan Freeze and Jay H. Lehr, about which I'll post in a week or so. Suffice it so say that it is an enjoyable, enlightening book about a perplexing, controversial subject. 

And speaking of perplexing...

The book reports on many studies that studied the efficacy and dangers of water fluoridation, but I found this quote one of the most enigmatic and entertaining:

 "These were then studies of the study that studied studies. The studies of the study that studied the study pointed out that this study that studied the studies had left some 3000 studies unstudied, and they called for a study of the studies that would study all studies and therefore not necessitate a further study of the studies as this study had done." - D. Caron, Letter to the editor, British Medical Journal, 12 October 2000, (cited by Freeze and Lehr, p. 197).

Perhaps this a was merely an example of British humor.

I usually close each daily post with a quote, but I cannot top this one.

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 1 - 7 September 2012

I will be heading home to the USA early on 8 September (2 AM) and will arrive home about 10:30 PM that same day.

My task of reviewing proposals for a Chilean climate-change center for CONICYT (English version), an agency equivalent to the US National Science Foundation, has ended. A panel consisting of myself, Tom Pedersen (left) of the University of Victoria's Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), and Bruce McCarl (right) of Texas A&M evaluated five teams vying for the center, selected one, and made our recommendation to CONICYT yesterday.

Today the CONICYT Board will select the winner, who will be announced next month.

Our panel was supposed to be five, but two members were excused because of family illnesses.

Very enjoyable experience.

And speaking of enjoyable experiences, check out PICS's great online, free course Climate Insights 101. Module 1, Climate Science Basics, is ready now, and three more are in preparation.

You can follow PICS on Twitter.

 Note - if you are new to this summary: to access a story, click on the link beginning with 'http://', 'is.gd', or 'bit.ly'. Clicking on a link beginning with '@' will take you to that person's Twitter account; clicking on a link beginning with '#' will take you to a Twitter list containing Tweets about a particular topic. Some items may not have a hot link to a story, which is fine - it may have been just an informational item or a personal message to someone. Or, I may have screwed up and forgotten the link!

Enjoy!

Bottled Water and Drinking Water
Joan B. Rose: Is Your Water Making You Sick? http://is.gd/6fNUGb @HuffPostScience

Phoenix Reconsiders Drinking Water Fluoridation. http://is.gd/3tnRI9 

 

California
Jay Lund (UCD) new member of Delta Science Board (@DeltaCouncil). Great! Don't know Dr. Fernando.  http://is.gd/IiJgt4   @matt_weiser

@PacificInstitut September 2012 Update. http://is.gd/4b6QNU 

Canada
Interview: David Schindler http://is.gd/6p84IU (Via @CanadianWater)

Calgary's @cawst Wins Prize at World Water Weekhttp://is.gd/nmC3aC (via @CanadianWater)

MT @CanadianWater Peter Kent and @EPAgov's Lisa Jackson likely to sign renegotiated GLWQA tomorrow. More athttp://watercanada.net  7 Sept

MT @CanadianWater Duncan Ellison,former exec director of CWWA, laments loss of a federal water monitoring pgm.http://fb.me/CpMYjSa9 

Climate, Climate Change, and Meteorology
Great J Blah post from @MGhydro: Four cultures: new synergies for engaging society on climate change. http://tmblr.co/ZhhITwSf7qwa

RT @ClimateComms Barriers facing Assateague: Climate change could threaten island. http://is.gd/0gFrn3 (via @CCTNews)

RT @tveitdal Architects and Designers Take on Global Warming at London Exhibition http://bit.ly/RzMC1T

RT @climateprogress Tree Ring Circus: Paleoclimate Redux.http://thinkprogress.org/?p=512725

RT @polit2k Arctic Warming is Altering Weather Patterns, Study Shows (@climatecentral) http://bit.ly/T2YJGq @liamdutton

Preparing for the Inevitable: Former FEMA Director Tackles Climate Change. http://is.gd/IVIXF2 

MT @MichaelEMann Blockbuster @LHfang @TheNation article on API & Saudi efforts to block action on CC http://fb.me/1CQPl8bMQ 

Conferences and Calls for Abstracts/Papers
@AWRAHQ Ag Hydrology & Water Quality Conference, 25-27 March 2013, St. Louis. Abstracts due: 9 October. http://is.gd/U91I90

International Conference on Pathogen Fate, Transport & Risk. Banff, 23-26 Sept. http://is.gd/qbflER  @CdnWaterNetwork

RT @C_HerveBazin Stockholm Water Week: outcomes http://wp.me/p1lerJ-87  

Conflict and Cooperation
RT @UNDP Water=life. Access removes conflict stemming from disputes over water. Read DR Congo's story: http://ow.ly/dnRnk

RT @Katchinoff Transboundary water cooperation gets a boost thanks to @UNDP's Shared Waters Partnership http://bit.ly/Q7bp99 

Vail Resorts, water district sign ‘historical' agreement.http://is.gd/NCkFvV 

Economics
RT @gesagua Evidence that environment isn't valid water user is Chile´s non-use tariff.What is use?Only economically productive activities.

The Trouble of Discounting Tomorrow (Solutions Journal)http://is.gd/CT8VGH 

From @GWPnews: Publications on water financing.http://is.gd/HHCXSi 

EUWI Pub: Pricing water resources to finance their sustainable management. http://is.gd/veq9pJ  (via@GWPnews)

Education
@PICSCanada: Great online,free course Climate Insights 101. Climate Sci Basics ready now, 3 more in prep. http://is.gd/0czLJC 

@MGhydro J Blah post: The engaged university: providing a platform for research that transforms society http://tmblr.co/ZhhITwSfDl8f

Floods, Hurricanes, and Droughts
RT @columbiawater The Guardian: World Bank issues hunger warning after drought. http://bit.ly/TAhGfB

In Louisiana, the Water Gives, and Takes Away (@nytimes)http://nyti.ms/T3YLOn

RT @TexasWaterNews Severe Drought Continues to Scorch Texas Pastures http://is.gd/q0OyiH 

MT @NOAA@twc_hurricane: Interactive history of Isaac, covering 5600 miles from emergence off W. Africa to U.S.http://wxch.nl/RRty1F 

RT@waterfortheages Two for one today. Another great water film from @indiawater about flood consequences in Bihar.http://bit.ly/TnL8Ka 

RT @HuffPostGreen Rains from Hurricane Isaac don't put much dent in U.S. drought http://huff.to/Qp4pIe

RT @bluelivingideas 3-D Mapping Hurricane Isaac Floodinghttp://dlvr.it/25XJVw 
 

Gender
RT @WLE_CGIAR Let's Talk Gender at World Water Weekhttp://wp.me/p2s65d-5m @wH2Ojournal

Sub-Saharan African Women Spend 40 Billion Hours/Year Collecting Water. http://is.gd/ZkPglM 

 

Groundwater
Groundwater eNews - August 2012 http://is.gd/LLxf6s

RT @ngwatweets @WaterWellJournl Must-read column on#groundwater treatment. More about corrosion: http://ow.ly/dw0M8 
 

Hydrofracking, Shale Gas, and Energy
MT @ScienceNewsOrg This article helps explain fracking and what scientists think about it http://ow.ly/dnSmC

Infographic: The Shale Gas Revolution http://bit.ly/T42dZm

EARTH Magazine: 'The Bakken Boom and the New Wild West: A Young Geologist's Perspective' http://bit.ly/QgTBs9 

RT @stuartsmithlaw Cornell Students Rally at 'Don't Frack New York'http://ow.ly/dtzZo 

MT @geoffdabelko - @CDEnvironment High levels of radioactivity found in Marcellus shale brine, government studyhttp://bit.ly/RgOpo9 

 

Journals, Reports, and Publications
Tuesday Trifecta: 1) Save Canada's ELA; 2) @MGhydro's Publications List; 3) IMPACT Issue: Sustainable Water Resourceshttp://bit.ly/NLcjxl 

Check out @MGhydro's awesome list of water and related reports!http://is.gd/hERXz6 

Various pubs from USFS - RMRS: CC, water, wetlands, etc.http://is.gd/I1YBW6 

Opportunities
Via @H2Oscore Cash Prize Offered in Water Sustainability Blog Competition - $100 for top entry. Closes: 30 Septhttp://is.gd/X0uNKD 

 

Policy, Planning, and Management
RT @newscientist Wastewater is a massive drain on resources: now you can make power and plastic out of it http://bit.ly/O6nEIp 

MT @EPAresearch Time for our water science blog: stormwater's being discussed "Around the Water Cooler"http://1.usa.gov/PMDS5g 
 

Positions Open
Positions Open: Various - scroll down to 'Job Opportunities'http://is.gd/xtLe3o 

Positions Open (2) : NOAA - Fish Biologist (Honolulu, HI). Close: 1 Oct. http://is.gd/kAldge 

Position Open: CIFOR (Indonesia) - Research Officer (Ref: 1239), Forests & Governance Pgm. Closes: 10 Sept. http://dlvr.it/25WhHY #jobs

Position Open: River Restoration Northwest - Executive Director (P-T). Apps through 30 Sept. http://is.gd/LXCcB9 

From Last Week

Position Open: @Ecotrust (Anchorage, AK) - Water Resources Associate. Closes: 24 Sept. http://is.gd/fvPF7v  (Via @EcoCentered)

Position Open: @usbr (Yakima, WA) - Field Office Manager. Closes: 25 Sept http://is.gd/Aga9HB 

Position Open: USDA-NIFA (Washington, DC) - National Pgm Leader (Cropping Systems). Closes: 14 Sept http://is.gd/GinNNE 

Position Open: Goleta Water District (Santa Barbara, CA) - Principal Analyst. Closes: 14 Sept http://is.gd/xBt8Fy  (@BCWaterNews)

Position Open: NM Env. Dept.- Mining Environmental Compliance Supervisor,No. 00038199 (Santa Fe). Closes: 10 Septhttp://is.gd/sYPygY 

Position Open: BLM (Carson City, NV) - Hydrologist. Closes: 19 Septhttp://is.gd/fylqPK 

Positions Open (3): SSHCZO (Penn State) - Pgm/Data Coordinator; Watershed Specialist; Cyberspecialist; all 1 year. http://is.gd/raLc7z 

Position Open: UCSC - Environmental Health & Safety Director. (Job # 1203789). OUF; app review: 9 Sept. http://is.gd/SwBQH9 (@cgaylord)

Positions Open (3): U of SC - 1) Aq. Geo/Bio Chem; 2) Global Change Oceanography; 3) Sed. Geol. Asst. and/or Assoc Profhttp://is.gd/Xyo2kx 

Position Open: USACE - Supervisory Interdisciplinary (Vicksburg, MS). Closes: 6 Sept. http://is.gd/IbLgNt 

Position Open: @EPAgov - Director, Office of Wastewater Management (DC). Closes: 24 Sept. http://is.gd/IH9s7L 

Position Open: EAWAG (Switzerland) - Postdoc, 2 years, any field of aquatic science & technology. Closes: 3 Oct http://is.gd/2veqRi 

Positions Open (2): CEOAS-OSU: Institutional Postdocs, various fields. App review: 1 Sept; final deadline: 1 Oct. http://is.gd/Zf3MSm 

 

Previous 2012 Weekly Water Summaries
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 1 - 7 September 2012http://bit.ly/Os0nML 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 25 - 31 August 2012http://bit.ly/NAAA9q 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 18 - 24 August 2012 http://bit.ly/NkAseb 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 11 - 17 August 2012 http://bit.ly/NJhwBK 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 4 - 10 August 2012http://bit.ly/NPgVfz 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 28 July - 3 August 2012http://bit.ly/OujLIj

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 21 - 27 July 2012

http://bit.ly/Or1zQ4 

 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 14 -20 July 2012 http://bit.ly/NDj0iC

 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 7-13 July 2012 http://bit.ly/LOiBva 

  

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 30 June - 6 July 2012 http://bit.ly/PnMzYj

It's Baaack! TGIF! Biweekly Water News Summary, 16 - 29 June 2012 

http://bit.ly/NY3Bt0 
 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 9 - 15 June 2012 http://bit.ly/KOAByx

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 2 - 8 June 2012http://bit.ly/LF5G9G

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 12 - 18 May 2012http://bit.ly/L4hAsj

 TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 5 -11 May 2012 http://bit.ly/J2dkik

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 28 April - 4 May 2012http://bit.ly/IK5W7e

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 21 - 27 April 2012http://bit.ly/Jv2MTJ

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 14 -20 April 2012 http://bit.ly/JdmnHZ

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 7 -13 April 2012 (Triskaidekaphobia Day!) http://bit.ly/ILE3JC

TGIF - Weekly Water News Summary, 31 March - 6 April 2012http://bit.ly/HmCNlk

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 24 - 30 March 2012http://bit.ly/H7fEkw

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 17 - 23 March 2012 http://bit.ly/GRLsGe

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 10 - 16 March 2012 http://bit.ly/xeD89Z

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 3 - 9 March 2012 http://bit.ly/xXluYG

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 25 February - 2 March 2012 http://bit.ly/yEY43C

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 18 - 24 February 2012. http://bit.ly/w6elbW

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 11 - 17 February 2012 http://bit.ly/wHGMzb

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 4 - 10 February 2012 http://bit.ly/wxqQsX

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 28 January - 3 February 2012 http://bit.ly/zdQXyW

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 21-27 January 2012 (Florida Edition) http://bit.ly/yw836U

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 14-20 January 2012 (AWRA Day!) http://bit.ly/wOAXFy

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 7-13 January 2012 (Triskaidekaphobia Day!) http://bit.ly/z8j8s2

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 31 December 2011 - 6 January 2012 http://bit.ly/xvMj3P
 

Science and Technology
Ooops! MT @plutoniumpage @HanfordNews: more evidence that a Hanford double shell waste tank may be deteriorating:http://bit.ly/Uj96E7

In Santiago, Chile, reviewing CC Center proposals for CONICYT. Five finalists to give presentations tomorrow.

RT @sciam Most popular now on the site: "Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions" http://bit.ly/TflHKL  by @cgorman

RT @csmonitor NRC staff to review nuclear reactor waste storage rules http://bit.ly/QesALH  @reuters

RT @NatureNews Curiosity seeks methane in atmospheric samples http://bit.ly/OTjmke 
 

Streams, Lakes, Dams, and Ecosystems
@MGhydro rolls..J Blah post: Communicating with the public: opportunities and rewards for individual ecologistshttp://tmblr.co/ZhhITwSfCM0v

RT @MGhydro J Blah post: Restarting the conversation: challenges at the interface between ecology and society http://tmblr.co/ZhhITwSf9DM8

 RT @craigtimes FL enviro groups push to make Central FL's polluted Lake Apopka a national wildlife refuge. http://is.gd/qQHwAP

RT @aquatic_habitat Stream Restoration Failures Beg for Holistic, Sustainable Solutions http://tinyurl.com/6v747mj via@troutheadwaters

Longest undammed river in Lower 48 MT @aquatic_habitat Where the Yellowstone Goes - Movie Trailer http://p.ost.im/p/eq29Yd 

 

Twitter, E-Newsletters, and E-Neswpapers
MT @H2Otrust News from Clean Drinking Water SVDs #Daily onhttp://paper.li/H2OTrust/1314278134 … @safeH2Osociety@WaterAid @WorldBank @WaterWired @WaterCa

RT @medindoagua The Água & Water Daily is out!http://bit.ly/hRCisK ▸ Top stories today via @WaterWired@tratamentoagua @aguaorgmx

MT @H2Otrust News in Clean Drinking Water SVDs Daily @http://paper.li/H2OTrust/1314278134 … @BantheBottle@circleofblue @onedrop @waterwired @AyeDye

RT @ThePhoenixSun @ProtectDeserts: #Desert Environmental News for September 01, 2012 http://goo.gl/fb/dGPTU

 RT @WaterTanks Our Daily Water is out! http://bit.ly/eLENr5  ▸ Top stories today via @DailyNewsZim @AustralianWater @skmrahaman

 @CGIAR-on-Twitter Daily is out! http://bit.ly/s83Lj4  ▸ Top stories today via @IWMI_Water_News

MT @H2Otrust Clean Drinking Water SVDs Daily News onhttp://paper.li/H2OTrust/1314278134 … … thx 2 @waterwired@newoceanblue@5gyres@fridgefilters@water

@AWRAHQ Connections Newsletter: news, conferences, etc.http://is.gd/GIsvd5

H2OSU Newsletter - 4 September 2012 - regional, national & international conferences, events, jobs, etc. http://is.gd/xtLe3o 

PNW Climate CIRCulator Newsletter. PNW Climate Science Conference, 1-2 Oct, Boise. http://is.gd/OY3pkD 

RT @medindoagua The Água & Water Daily is out! http://bit.ly/hRCisK ▸ Top stories today via @NWRIwater @GWPnews @global_water

MT @H2Otrust Wednesday news Clean Drinking Water SVDs Dailyhttp://paper.li/H2OTrust/1314278134 … … @waterWired@PeterGleick
@TheWaterChannel@SavetheWater

RT @MarkAndersonCRE Marcellus Shale Daily is out!http://goo.gl/fPzQR  ▸ Top stories today via @WaterWired@saeverley@marcellusmin

The @WaterFootprints Daily is out! http://bit.ly/eDEDnD  ▸ Top stories today via @WaterNetwork1@OurWaterCounts

RT @WhoDat35 The Environmental Daily is out! http://bit.ly/f6ZJjL ▸ Top stories today via @CaliforniaWatch

MT @H2OTrust Read Clean Drinking Water SVDs Daily onhttp://paper.li/H2OTrust/1314278134 … @CanadianWater @Oxfam@BantheBottle @SavetheWater @WaterWired

OSU CEOAS 'Making Waves' Newsletter - 7 September 2012http://is.gd/1AyZRe 

RT @EcoCentered This Week in News Briefs http://ow.ly/1mkZkr 

WaSH and Development
Roll Tide! MT @NedBreslin Great #wwweek, must read blogs 1)http://tinyurl.com/8j34aa3 (@PBMoriarty); 2)http://tinyurl.com/8t5y293 (@haroldlockwood)

Water and sanitation still not top priorities for African governmentshttp://is.gd/MnRXa2 (via @WaterSISWEB @KavehMadani)

Infographic: Access to Clean Water Promotes a Ripple Effect (@vossfoundation) http://bit.ly/OGg03K 

RT @Oxfam What have MDGs achieved? Do we really know? Heretical thoughts from Matthew Lockwood http://oxf.am/JK5  via@fp2p

Fall 2012 @ElPorvenir Newsletter. http://is.gd/C9PGKK 

 

Water Quality
RT @waterca Armies of oysters being unleashed to fight pollution along New York coast http://ow.ly/1OtYdV 

Asarco: Cleanup won't fix Silver Valley (ID) pollution.http://is.gd/gXb3BJ 

Utah regulators: Water not contaminated by oil tank explosion.http://is.gd/dj3yq5 

Water Supply, Security, Use, and Conservation
MT @TheRainCatcher Infographic: Who Does And Who Does Not Have Access To Clean Water, By Region http://ow.ly/cRCUK

RT @WillSarni Experts in Stockholm Analyze the Energy-Water Nexus http://zite.to/R5hRmE  via @zite

 RT @WaterOnline Saudi per capita water consumption 91% higher than international average http://ow.ly/dsG8a 

Infographic: Where Is All The Water? http://bit.ly/TlNNnA 

Infographic: Original Version of 'Where Is All The Water?http://is.gd/Omv1Gr 

RT @WellDone Apparently #water and food security go hand in hand-- http://ow.ly/dqSgT 

RT @OurWaterCounts Chicago infrastructure trust - and water privatization: http://buff.ly/RIhMQB 

MT @matt_weiser @kategalbraith: WSJ- With water in short supply across US,time for serious look at recycling sewagehttp://is.gd/VavPuF 
 

WTF?
Cocktail Napkin Creativity: Institutionalizing Inventive Inspiration in Santiago http://bit.ly/OeKzNk

RT @MGHydro @engineerproblem Unfortunately this is true.http://i.imgur.com/A7s4y

RT @HuffingtonPost They said WHAT? Politicians' most embarrassing science gaffes http://huff.to/PVvmQa 

MT @elaineishere Finally read provocative @wired piece@mattwridley: http://ow.ly/doUTU  Now reading rebuttal:http://ow.ly/dpmNM 

 "No one has done good who has not suffered disillusionment." - Chilean proverb

EARTH Magazine: 'The Bakken Boom and the New Wild West: A Young Geologist's Perspective'

The American Geosciences Institute just sent me a PDF of the aforementioned article from the October 2012 issue of AGI's EARTH magazine.

Download October2012EARTH

Here is the email blurb that accompanied the PDF:

With the October 2012 issue, EARTH Magazine has begun a casual series of articles written by recent geoscience graduates about their early experiences in the workforce. This series is in part a response to some common inquiries we've encountered – students and graduates often wonder what to expect in their job search and what employment will really be like in the geosciences. 

In the American Geosciences Institute's Geoscience Workforce Program's ongoing effort to support the development of a robust geoscience profession, we are pleased to send to you, as an attached PDF, the first of these EARTH articles, "The Bakken Boom and the New Wild West – A Young Geologist’s Perspective." EARTH Magazine is permitting wide distribution of this article, so we encourage you to share the article with your students.

In addition, if you are in contact with any recent graduates – within the last
two years – who are currently working in the geosciences and might be interested in writing a piece about their unique perspectives and experiences, please encourage them to contact EARTH Mangaging Editor Meg Sever at earth@earthmagazine.org. 

Regards,
Heather Houlton and Carolyn Wilson
AGI Workforce Program
workforce@agiweb.org

Since this was sent to me unsolicited I thought it was appropriate to post the article. I suspect it will be of interest to others besides recent or impending graduates. I enjoyed it.

Enjoy!

"I heard stories of geologists earning double or triple what I was making, and living a playboy lifestyle with weeks off at a time." - R. Tyler Powers, from the article

Infographic: Where Is All The Water?

The first version of this infographic came from RainCatcher's Facebook page (the infographic is a little better quality there). The version shown here - the original - is from GOOD and Column Five Media. You can click on it to enlarge it, or view a larger version here.

Thanks to reader Ihadira Lopez for identifying the original source.

It's useful (although the print is a bit small), but it blows off groundwater by stating 'most of which is too expensive to tap into and filter'. Of course, that assumption makes the available water a small percentage, but remember - even that 1% of all freshwater equals about 335,000 cubic kilometers. Even if we take a conservative approach and halve that number, it's still a lot of water.

Right - those numbers mean little to most people. But they equal abut 15 or 7.5 times the total volume of the North American Great Lakes, and remember - that water is mostly renewable although we have to worry about its quality degradation as we use it.

And we can still pump some of that groundwater.

And here is a PDF of some water infographics from the Blue Planet Network:

Download WaterInfoGraphics

 

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water." - Sigmund Freud 

Tuesday Trifecta: 1) Save Canada's Experimental Lakes Area; 2) @MGhydro's Publications List; 3) IMPACT Issue: Sustainable Water Resources

Any later and I would have to rename this post 'Wednesday Something-or-Other'

Busy day interviewing the five groups of finalists for the CONICYT's Climate Change Center and writing some reports.

So what should you be reading?

1) An Unparalleled Scientific Resource Endangered

Janet G. Hering, Deborah L. Swackhamer, and W.H. Schlesinger discuss the impending closure of Canada's Experimental Lakes Area. It's a treasure that should be saved.

Download Es3030512_w_links

Want to help save ELA? Go here!
 

2) From WaterWonk Matthew Garcia: More Reports on Water and Related Issues

If these 30 or so aren't enough, check out his previous list! You'll be in heaven!

Read his Hydro-Logic blog and follow @MGhydro on Twitter!

3) AWRA's Water Resources IMPACT September 2012 Issue: Sustainable Water Resources

Check out the ToC:  Download 1209imp_toc

From the issue's editor, E. Tim Smith:

Sustainable water resources is a term that covers a multitude of topics, and as such tends to be one of those integrative phrases that is subject to a wide variety of definitions. In this issue of Water Resources IMPACT the concept is addressed by authors representing the Federal government, NGO’s, and con- sultants. The last article, from academia represents an appli- cation of the concept to the Caribbean region that shows an at- tempt to put ideas into practice. There are many additional contributions to the literature, however, many of which can be found on the Sustainable Water Resources Site.

FEATURE ARTICLES

3 Global Change and Water Resources: Where Are We Headed? ... Matthew C. Larsen

The United States is now coping with large-scale issues that include supply and water quality among many other considerations. The effects of population, land use, aquatic ecosystem needs, precipitation, and sea-level rise are examined, among other topics.

8 Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) and the Global Challenges to Food and Agriculture ... Ann Bartuska, Mark R. Walbridge, and Steven R. Shafer

Water resources are expected to have an increasing part in how agriculture can be conducted in the future. To cope with this challenge, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is implementing a program of Long Term Agricultural Research applied to regions within the nation.

11 The Path Forward to Achieve Safe and Sustainable Water Resources: USEPA’s Newly Aligned Research Program ... Jennifer Orme- Zavaleta and Michael E. MacDonald

The USEPA has a research program whose purpose is to pro- tect water supply and water quality for the nation. Current efforts focus on watershed approaches that are intended to address nonpoint sources, including problems like nutrients, chemicals, adequate infrastructure, and land use practices.

14 Watershed Sustainability Rating: Is There Any Rating Framework That Could Be Used? ... Harry X. Zhang and Ethan T. Smith

Watersheds are a focus for understanding how to manage and protect water resources over the long term. To accomplish this, several methodologies are examined, including those used by UNESCO, Canada, and USEPA; watershed charac- teristics, wastewater treatment plants, and industry all have an impact.

17 Water: A Strategic Business Asset ... Tom Pedersen

Water is increasingly important to all aspects of business as market forces are exerted. Specific examples include the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Water Disclosure Project, and the Water/Carbon Nexus.

19 Sustainable Water Resources in the Caribbean: Prospects and Challenges ... Nekesha B. Williams and Ken D. Thomas

Sustainability concepts are applied for small islands of the Caribbean. Supply problems like the scarcity of fresh water and salt-water intrusion are examined; social, environmental, and economic aspects are considered as part of integrated water resources management.



Here is a copy. And join AWRA!

Enjoy!

Time to sleep...

"Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." - Waldo Tobler (thanks to Matthew Garcia)