Posted on November 3, 2007 by Jared Simpson
The first three words of the prologue of Jeffry Rothfeder’s 2001 book, Every Drop for Sale (at Amazon you can read the prologue; also a comprehensive review here) are The Chattahoochee River, set off from the text that follows with tasteful small caps. The Chattahoochee feeds Lake Lanier, Georgia’s rapidly-depleting primary reservoir.
Titled Beginning: Scenes of [...]
Filed under: Apalachicola, Atlanta, Atlanta drought, Chattahootchee River, Cynthia Barnett, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental destruction, Flint River, Florida, Georgia drought, Jeffrey Rothfeder, Randy Golden, The Hooch, drought | No Comments »
Posted on October 21, 2007 by Jared Simpson
This just in from our generally reliable Atlanta source: Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has declared a state of emergency due to the alarmingly persistent statewide drought. Georgians are waking up to the fact that they are running out of water and that the weather isn’t poised to perform a last-second rescue–meteorologists predict an unusually [...]
Filed under: Apalachicola, Atlanta, Atlanta drought, Cynthia Barnett, Environmental destruction, Florida, Georgia drought, Lake Lanier, Sonny Perdue, Southeast drought, The Hooch, drought, water conservation | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: American rivers, California water, Environmental destruction, Federal government water management, Iraq, dams, river restoration, salmon | No Comments »
Posted on September 14, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Many faithful Waterblogged.info readers have expressed urgent concern about the lack of new postings in the last few days. We do apologize, but there’s good reason: Turmoil. Editorial turmoil. Grumblings from the Waterblogged.info editorial board—”a complete lack of focus disguised as a global perspective,” and “no apparent mission aside from complaining and hand-wringing about water,” [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Introductory articles about desalination invariably point out that simple schemes for desalting seawater have been practiced since very ancient times—sometimes to get at the salt rather than water. For example, Waterblogged.info’s crack researchers have lost count of the number of times they’ve read that Aristotle wrote about a basic distillation process for separating salt and [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Of course not, but everyone—including the stridently gloomy and pessimistic Waterblogged.info—would like it to be true. An unlimited supply of water delivered to us just in the nick of time by heroic hydrologists is an appealing and comforting concept. The problem is that too many in the world see desal as a panacea that renders [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Water crisis in Iraq
According to this CBS News story, only about 30% of Iraquis have access to clean water. Accompanying the story is a handy “Fast Fact,”—kind of a printed equivalent of a sound bite—which deepens our insight into this miserable fact by pointing out that the U.S. has spent $1.5 billion dollars on [...]
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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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Posted on July 15, 2007 by Jared Simpson
And BP’s doing it with the blessings of Indiana regulators, who are supposed to be enforcing the law, not granting exceptions to one of the Great Lake’s biggest polluters.
This is very distressing news. WTF, indeed. (I borrowed digg’s title for their entry.) According to the Chicago Tribune, which broke the story, the regulators reassuringly point [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Diverted any rivers lately? Me neither. The average person rarely has the opportunity. But dictators like, say, Saddam Hussein, do, and darned if they don’t take advantage. After the Gulf War, Hussein—no doubt rubbing his hands together and laughing maniacally—demanded that the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers be diverted from the Iraq marshlands, [...]
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