WaterWired Celebrates the Sixth and the One Hundredth

Who knew that I started WaterWired on Richard Nixon's birthday! Not I! He was born 100 years ago today.

But the sixth? The Sixth Amendment? The right to a speedy trial, among other things? No.

Six years ago today I started WaterWired with the following thoughtful missive:

Thanks for stopping by and reading the initial post of WaterWired.

My objectives in establishing this blog are:

1) Providing my perspective on today's water and related issues, regardless of where they may be - the Pacific Northwest, the rest of the USA, or the developing/developed world;

2) Illustrating the many facets of water - as a life-giver, commodity, resource, nuisance, weapon, vehicle for cooperation, instigator of conflict, subject matter for literature/art, etc.;

3) Soliciting and listening to your perspectives on water;

4) Satisfying my desire to be a "writer" (gees, I guess "blogger" is the proper term);

5) Educating and entertaining my readers (and myself!); and, above all

6) Stimulating thought and generating controversy (though never for its own sake!)

Again, thanks for visiting, and I hope you will return frequently.

Lots of work still to do!

And to think I fretted about having enough to blog about! 

Just finished an interesting project: serving as Guest Editor of the upcoming 'Thirsty Planet' issue of Odyssey magazine. Now reading a book manuscript to pen a foreword. Developing a webinar series on IWRM. And teaching/advising some horribly bright students! 

It never ends, but I don't want it to.

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. " - Richard M. NIxon

Comments

[George Hallberg]

Happy Anniversary! Keep stimulating and entertaining and educating us all, Mike!

[Kristine Uhlman]

Good for you! And thank you for doing what you do - Kristine

[Michael J. McGuire]

I hope you enjoy the book.