All things freshwater: news, analysis, humor, reviews, and commentary from Michael E. 'Aquadoc' Campana, hydrogeologist, hydrophilanthropist, Professor of Hydrogeology and Water Resources Management in the Geography Program of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS) at Oregon State University and Emeritus Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of New Mexico. He is Past President of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), Past Chair of the Scientists & Engineers Division of the National Ground Water Association (NGWA), Past President of the nonprofit NGWA Foundation and President and Founder the nonprofit Ann Campana Judge Foundation, an organization involved with WaSH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) in Central America. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Global Water Partnership (GWP). CYA statement: with the exception of guest posts, the opinions expressed herein are solely those of Michael E. Campana and not those of CEOAS, Oregon State University, ACJF, AWRA, NGWA, GWP, my spouse Mary Frances, or any other person or organization.
Josh Newton's Water Jobs & More!
The economics of water (and some other stuff), courtesy of economist David Zetland.
An aggregation of the top water blogs and their five most recent posts - all in one place!
The California water news blog by the Water Education Foundation.
Water and a lot more from Paul F. Miller.
The water resources blog of the American Water Resources Association.
A wandering, articulate Earth scientist just a few years from Vanderbilt University, Courtney van Stolk explores the 'whys' of this fantastic planet.
Anna Warwick Sears, Executive Director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board in British Columbia, provides an insider's view of water management.
A biologist, economist, engineer and geologist walk onto a bar…From the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC-Davis.
That's 'Campana-stan', or 'Place of Campana', formerly 'Aquablog'. Michael Campana's personal blog, promulgating his Weltanschauung.
Journalist Emily Green's take on water issues.
The personal blog of Lloyd G. Carter, former UPI and Fresno Bee reporter, attorney, and California water observer for many years.
Global travels in freshwater climate adaptation from John H. Matthews.
The conservation blog of The Nature Conservancy. More than a dozen science and policy experts blogging away!
Anne blogs from Kent State University on a variety of earth science topics.
A blog about food, water and energy.
Noah Hall's blog about - what else - all things wet and legal in the Great Lakes region!
George J. Janczyn opines on water, environment, technology, law and politics in the San Diego area.
Matthew Garcia reports on hydrology and water resources in the news and science media.
Gabriel Eckstein, Director of the IWLP at Texas Tech University, comments on international and transboundary water law and policy.
From Parker J. (Jim) Wigington, the editor of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Former science writer at the Albuquerque Journal. Great stuff on climate, water, and more.
From the UC-Berkeley and UCLA law schools, it highlights the latest legal and policy initiatives and examines their implications.
Chris Corbin blogs about water rights and water markets.
A water, science, and environmental policy blog by Chris Austin, aka 'Maven'. Focus is on California.
A 'low level civil servant who reads a lot of government reports writes about California water and related topics.
Water blog with tons of news items, other blogs, etc.
Steve Gough on river geomorphology and the business, politics, and science of river ecosystem conservation.
Peter Gleick, WaterWonk extraordinaire, tells it like it is and should be with respect to water.
Don't let the name fool you - there are lots of water issues in agriculture and Tiffany Dowell of Texas A&M University does a fabulous job with this important Internet resource. Give it a read - I do every day!
From the Portland, OR, Water Bureau.
Oregon State University Geography PhD Student, Jennifer Veilleux, records her fieldwork, research, and thoughts about transboundary water resources development in the Nile River and Mekong River basins. Particular attention is given to Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Laos' Xayaburi Dam projects.
Gayle Leonard documents things from the world of water that make us smile: particularly funny, amusing and weird items on bottled water, water towers, water marketing, recycling, the art-water nexus and working.
Michael J. 'Mike' McGuire, engineer extraordinaire, NAE member, and author of 'The Chlorine Revolution', blogs about historical happenings in the fields of drinking water and wastewater keyed to calendar dates.
New publications, web sites and multi-media on water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH).
Elizabeth Royte's ('Bottlemania', 'Garbage Land') notes on waste, water, whatever.
From Jay Famiglietti at UC-Irvine. Fifty lectures in fifty weeks: The 2012 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectureship. A global lecture tour delivering the message about our changing water cycle, groundwater depletion, and the future of freshwater availability.
News from the Columbia University Water Center.
From UC-Davis water students. More than just a blog, it's a water resources community social bookmarking site. The users run the show, and all can participate.
The sound when people and water collide. A curious blend of water, infrastructure, history, and science. Broadcasting from Clemson, SC.
David Groenfeldt adds value to water policies.
From Sarah Boon - rediscovering her writing and editing roots after 13 years, primarily as an environmental scientist. Her writing centres around creative non-fiction, specifically memoir and nature writing. The landscapes of western Canada are her main inspiration.
All things fresh water: news, comment, and analysis from hydrogeologist Michael E. Campana, Professor at Oregon State University.
The 'mystery blog' about Western USA water issues. What more can I say?
G. Tracy Mehan III, Executive Director for Government Affairs at AWWA, is back with another excellent book review: The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers by Martin Doyle of Duke University'sNicholas School of the Environment.
Having just spent six days near the banks of the Missouri River the topic resonates with me.
Your reviewer grew up in St. Louis near the confluence of great rivers; imbibed the lore of Lewis & Clark, Father Marquette,and Mark Twain; participated in sandbagging operations during floods; and worked on legal and policy matters on the Missouri and Mississippi.
One of my mother’s ancestors set the record for the fastest steamboat run from St. Louis to Fort Benton, Montana, before the Flood Control Act of 1944 and the Pick-Sloan plan basically rendered the Missouri a human artifact, with dams, reservoirs, and exaggerated promises of prosperity. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, “in defiance of common sense, economics, and even simple hydrology,” created “an instance where both agencies managed to win,” as described by Marc Reisner in his classic Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. See myreview, “A Classic a Quarter Century Later” (May/June 2011).
In my salad days, I would break the winter doldrums by eagle-watching at the big lock and dam at Clarksville, north of St. Louis. It is designed to control the Mississippi River, T. S. Eliot’s “strong brown god-sullen, untamed, intractable.” In winter, the Missouri-Illinois stretch of the river has the largest collection of eagles outside of Alaska. When every pond, creek, and small river freezes over, they come to the big dams to feed on the fish coming through the spillways. It was not unusual to see 200 eagles of all ages and sizes congregating for the feast.
The final chapter, on “The Restoration Economy,” illustrates the opportunities to restore the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of rivers and streams and provide environmental amenities for which people, wealthy ones anyway, are willing to pay. These strike the right concluding notes for The Source, an excellent book indeed. The question is, Can we implement these restorative activities sufficiently and at scale to return more value and function to America’s 250,000 rivers over 3 million miles?
We look forward to hearing more from Martin Doyle on these matters.
From reading Tracy's exceptional review I think it's safe to say that his last sentence is spot-on.
You might want to read my review of Mississippi River Tragedies by Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer.
Here is a piece they wrote about the Missouri River that I posted on my blog.
Truly a day late with these. Spent 6 days in the Omaha area and saw the flood effects (although Omaha and Lincoln were not affected that I could see). These pictures are by Tony Willardson, ED of the Western States Water Council.
Looking east across the Missouri - Iowa in the background.
Commemorating the meeting between local tribes and Lewis and Clark - hence the name Council Bluffs, IA.
Another view across the Missouri River - 11 miles to Council Bluffs.
I think this is looking west from Iowa to Nebraska, with the Omaha skyline in the distance.
Enjoy, and think of those affected by the floods.
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TGIF - Weekly Water News Summary - will be published tomorrow.
This is a short catch-up list… I took as many as I had the time to upload prioritizing deadlines (or that were sent to me directly)… Back on schedule next Tuesday. Apologies, been a one-man show of late.
By yours truly and the groundwatergeek, Maria T. Gibson - presented by me at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln on 28 March 2019. Wonderful hospitality from water guru Dr. Dan Snow, Director of the Water Sciences Laboratory.
In response to global warming, some mountain glaciers are melting at accelerated rates. This is not unique to exotic locales such as the Andes and Himalayas; some permanent glaciers in North America are shrinking and are en routeto extinction. In the USA the best example of this phenomenon is Glacier National Park in Montana, which could be glacier-free by the middle of this century. In western Oregon and Washington some of the highest elevations in the Cascade Range are losing permanent glaciers. In addition, early snowmelt in the Cascades and elsewhere has the potential for harvesting.
Glaciers and snowpack provide humanity and natural ecosystems with 'free storage' of freshwater and parcel out water to maintain and replenish freshwater supplies. During the warm season, glacial meltwater nourishes lower elevation ecosystems and human settlements and recharges aquifers. Replenishment of the glacier normally occurs during the cooler seasons; the cycle then repeats itself. Ideally, one would like a balance: the glacial ice melting in the summer would be replaced by cold weather precipitation. When the melting exceeds the replenishment, the equilibrium is destroyed. The volume of the glacier shrinks, and if the disequilibrium continues, the glacier will disappear entirely.
Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) could capture 'excess' meltwater – the amount coming out of storage that is available – before the glacier disappears altogether. Early snowmelt could also be captured. Such groundwater storage would not be a permanent, sustainable solution to freshwater shortages, but might provide time to permit the development of alternatives to ensure survival of ecosystems and humans.
The presentation will: 1) explore some of the advantages and disadvantages of subsurface storage to salvage glacial meltwater and early snowmelt; 2) speculate where such schemes might work and would be needed; and 3) discuss a recent MAR project in the Yakima River basin in Washington, USA.
My AWRA IWRM Conference Presentations: 1) Groundwater and IWRM; 2) The GWP: A Partnership for Water - Promoting IWRM and More!
Note: Most of the slides used came from the GWP Secretariat in Stockholm.
Elaine Hanford on Climate Too Warm? Hey, Let's Get Judy and Mickey to Put on a Show!
Ander on Climate Too Warm? Hey, Let's Get Judy and Mickey to Put on a Show!
PAUL MILLER on CRS Report: 'Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector'; Weaponizing Groundwater Redux, More!
All the top water news in this 'online magazine rack' - yeah, WaterWired is listed.
Circle of Blue uses journalism, scientific research, and conversations from around the world to bring the story of the global freshwater crisis to life. Here you’ll find new water reports, news headlines, and hear from leading scientists.
The idea is simple. Drink water or other cheap beverages instead of expensive lattes, sodas, and bottled water for a set period of time. A day, a week, a month, Lent, Ramadan, Passover, or some other holiday period.
From the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this newsletter has lots of information about environmental flows and related issues.
Geology Online: 105 Websites That Rock!
The title says it all! WaterWired checks in at #68.
Great resource for job seekers. Give it a view!
Aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online, highlighting people and places the media often ignore.
Safe and stylish alternatives to disposable water bottles.
Since 2002, the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable (SWRR) has brought together federal, state, corporate, non-profit and academic sectors to advance our understanding of the nation’s water resources and to develop tools for their sustainable management.
Practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation, and meaningful health education to those in need.
Commerical site with much information on water and wastewater treatment.
Short posts on water and related issues.