Waterblogged

Why, fret Waterblogged.info fans around the globe, have there been so few posts lately? One word: ennui.  Frankly, we’re getting just a wee bit bored with water, a topic that has truly been done to death.
The fact is that we are really print people at heart—ink in our veins and all that. So, after a [...]

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The truly essential green site, Treehugger, published the guide, How to Green Your Water, way back in 2006, and by golly if it doesn’t still seem relevant now, so many, many months later. It’s a fantastically well-organized, handy, and dandy resource for learning water basics (and not-so-basics) as well as how not to be a [...]

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Waterblogged.info’s “web guy,” whom we’ll call “Michael,” because he insists that that’s his name, recently confessed that he seldom reads our posts because they’re “depressing.” Hey, sorry not to be more upbeat about global droughts and polluted water, “Michael!”
But honestly, our last effort at a more sunny and chirpy water-related blog, Ain’titawonderfulwaterworld.com, folded because it [...]

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Whoooaaaaa! World Water Day 2008! And, as usual, Waterblogged.info—where everyday is Water Day—is fashionably late! We didn’t post yesterday because the entire Waterblogged.info staff took the day off to celebrate at the many parades, marches, exhibits, mock water-war shoot-outs, hippified be-ins, teach-ins, die-ins, and drink-ins—not to mention the wet and wild after-hour parties, [...]

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“Too little, too late,” snarls Governor Sonny Perdue. “We want the Tennessee River’s water, and by golly gumdrops, we’re gonna have it!”
Actually, Perdue didn’t say that, but he could have, because, like the members of the Georgia legislature, he’s a shameless idiot who should be removed from office. The state’s newest solution to persistent drought [...]

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If this new documentary about the global water crisis (link is to five Flash trailers) and the threat of privatization of water doesn’t frighten you, you are:

catatonic
dead
Jack Bauer

Oh wait, you may also be Jeff Siegal. [After being terrified by the trailers, check out our page of web resources on water privatization from [...]

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Rather than delete this entire blog in a fit of existential despair during the darkest moments of our burnout, we decided to take our therapist’s advice and “take a little break, you know, kinda like a getaway,” to get our minds off of droughts, global desertification, and water wars, and more water wars. We took [...]

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Alternet.org’s new section on water links to scores of up-to-date articles on all of your favorite local, domestic, and global water controversies and calamities–desalination, drought, dams, bottled water, water wars, groundwater depletion and fish extinction in and around the Mediterranean, and China’s efforts to surpass its economic rivals in polluting the environment, just to name [...]

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Almost quit my blog.
It happens almost every day.
It was getting kind of old,
I could say that no one reads it anyway.

But I didn’t, and I wonder why
I feel like letting my geek flag fly.
And I feel like I owe it to someone.

We, the entire editorial staff of Waterblogged.info–including our creative and ambitious [...]

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In the video embedded below, Paul Krugman discusses the housing bubble and the resulting financial crisis, which has yet to play itself out and could have a devastating effect on the U.S, and global economy. It is, as Krugman says, scary stuff.
WTF, the observant reader might ask, does this have to do with the mission [...]

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