Controlled Fury

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Jared Simpson

As you no doubt know, the city hardest hit by the massive flooding in Iowa is Cedar Rapids. That community’s name reminded us of Jeffrey Rothfeder’s vivid account of the flood that struck Rapid City, South Dakota on June 9, 1972. In his 2001 book, Every Drop for Sale, he describes (In a chapter [...]

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The clearinghouse for dam removal information

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Jared Simpson

As the many frequent visitors to Waterblogged.info know–from such posts as this and this–we’re enthusiastic about the salutary effects of ridding the world of useless, outmoded, and ill-conceived dams.
Although the catchily-named The Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information carefully hews to the unwritten law decreeing that water-related sites must be visually unappealing, it is a [...]

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Water geek heaven

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson

A very brief post today, because the Waterblogged.info team is at a mandatory all-day offsite at this awesome resource, a compilation of videos on all the big issues surrounding water from the California Colloquium on Water, an ongoing lecture series at the Berkeley campus of the University of California.

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Congress is failing to act!

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Jared Simpson

When Waterblogged.info’s sources* revealed that the move to restore California’s San Joaquin River is stalled in Congress, an eerie hush fell over our newsroom; the clattering of the typewriters ceased, the editor stopped chewing on her cigar, the copy boy tip-toed out the door to find a better job. Why, we asked ourselves individually and [...]

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The Snake River Blues: Dammed if you don’t, dammed if you do, Part I

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Jared Simpson

In two previous posts, here and here, we pretty much gave Waterblogged.info’s coveted endorsement to the current nationwide trend of removing damaged and/or useless dams to restore and revitalize the rivers they block. Our entire staff was captivated by the short video documentary embedded below that documents the positive—almost magical—effects of dam removal [...]

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I should have written 500 down and 74,500 to go

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Jared Simpson

Recently I posted an entry entitled Dam Demolition Derby: three down, 74,997 to go. Actually, in recent years 500 dams have been torn down in the U.S., or in engineering parlance, they’ve been decommissioned. The term sounds funny to me in this context—like we’re thanking the dams for their many years of service, giving [...]

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Dam Demolition Derby: three down, 74,997 to go

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson

The good news about water continues unabated here on Waterblogged.info, your source for water news and information that is all over the map in more ways than one. Seven posts or so, and we’ve already been to Central Asia, Darfur, Iraq, and the Great Lakes of North America.
The good news is about dams. Here (item [...]

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