Green Ports Initiative in Philadelphia
Have you ever thought that an industrial waterfront user would have something in common with a riverkeeper or environmental conservation organization? Recently a partnership of the three Philadelphia...
View ArticleNew USGS Publication on Ground-Water Availability in the US
A new report, USGS Circular 1323, Ground-Water Availability in the United States, has just been released. This report examines what is known about the Nation’s ground-water availability and places the...
View ArticleDemand for Hydrogeologists and Some Reflections
Friend and colleague Todd Jarvis sent me the link to an article about demand for hydrogeologists. A number of friends and colleagues are quoted: Roy Haggerty, John Wilson, Dan Stephens. The term...
View ArticleAction Item: Corps Request for Comments on Principles segment of P&G’s
Action Request! from Gerry Galloway and Jane Rowan, Immediate Past and Current AWRA Presidents Below is a link to the Federal Register Notice announcing the Administration’s proposed revision to the...
View ArticleWater Policy Dialogue Results
Hello Water Resources Professionals: Attached are two files: One that is a rather lengthy document that includes the results of the September 2008 AWRA Water Policy Dialogue held in Washington DC,...
View ArticlePodcast Archive: GIS and Water Resources V (2008)
OPENING PLENARY .MP3 A Vision of the Future for California’s Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta: The Role of GIS, Visualation and Communication – Dr. Robert Twiss Robert Twiss, Professor of Environmental...
View ArticlePodcast Archive: Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers – Working at the Water’s...
Opening Plenary – Keynote Speakers .MP3 Rivers for Life Brian Richter, Nature Conservancy .MP3 Riparian Reflections James Karr, University of Washington Tuesday Plenary – Keynote Speakers .MP3...
View ArticleIs Stream Restoration Working?
Here in the Pacific Northwest, stream restoration is a growth industry (purely anecdotal – I have not done a study). The big issue is restoration as it relates to the salmon fishery: trying to undo the...
View ArticleJay Famiglietti: Rallying Around Our Known Unknowns – What We Don’t Know Will...
Just got a nice email from Jay Famiglietti (we both find it hard to believe that we have yet to meet) advising me of a great (my assessment, not his) post on his Water 50/50 blog, “Rallying Around Our...
View ArticleThe Journal ‘Ground Water’ Succombs At Last: It’s One Word, Not Two
When I received my January-February 2013 issue of Ground Water the other day I noticed that the two words in the journal’s title had merged into one. The same thing has happened to the other major NGWA...
View ArticleMarch 10 -16 is National Groundwater Awareness Week – So Hug a Hydrogeologist!
Shill alert! It’s that time of the year again -National Groundwater Awareness Week is upon us, just about two weeks before World Water Day (22 March). This event was created by the National Ground...
View ArticleColorado River Plumbing Made Easy
Shill alert! I have no formal affiliation with the High Country News (except as a faithful subscriber) but you won’t know it from the following post. Oh, yeah, the writing is great and I frequently...
View ArticleDoes the USA Need an ‘Endangered Aquifers List’?
On Saturday 1 June 2013 I did what I do about 20 times per day and posted a Tweet: There are ‘endangered rivers’ lists; I’m thinking about an ‘endangered aquifers’ list. Why not?@ngwatweets? But this...
View ArticleTexas Water Resources Institute’s TxH2O Makes Texas Groundwater Simple(r)
Groundwater is not simple, but the folks at the Texas Water Resources Institute at Texas A & M have certainly made it simpler. The TWRI’s Summer 2014 issue of TxH2O is devoted to groundwater. Not...
View ArticleGWP Perspectives Paper: ‘The Links Between Land Use and Groundwater’
Is this awesome or what? From my friends at the Global Water Partnership: The Links Between Land Use and Groundwater, by Stephen Foster and Jan Cherlet. Download GWP_Landuse_and_Groundwater From the...
View ArticleRead This Commentary: ‘The Global Groundwater Crisis’
Jay Famiglietti just published this commentary in Nature Climate Change. It’s a chilling message, and he says so right below the title: Groundwater depletion the world over poses a far greater threat...
View Article‘Checkbook’ Hydrology: Caveat Emptor
These comments are directed to water professionals (real or wanna-be) and not to hoi polloi (not intended as a derogatory term). Some faithful readers might get a sense of déjà vu when they read this...
View ArticleDumping Seawater in the Desert – Solving Iran’s Water Shortage?
Many of you know that I am fond of featuring ‘water transfer mega-projects’ involving the transportation of huge amounts of water across large distances. I have posted a number of times about NAWAPA...
View ArticleGroundwater and Surface Water Hydrologists: The U.S. Department of Labor...
The following message from Tammy Belcher of RTI (Research Triangle institute), a Department of Labor contractor, is directed to all of you who consider yourselves groundwater or surface water...
View ArticlePaper: ‘The Depths of Hydraulic Fracturing and Accompanying Water Use Across...
The Depths of Hydraulic Fracturing and Accompanying Water Use Across the United States. by Robert B. Jackson, Ella R. Lowry, Amy Pickle, Mary Kang, Dominic DiGiulio, and Kaiguang Zhao. 2o15. ES &...
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