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The Waterblogged.info team has been ordered by the staff doctor to drink plenty of liquids and avoid unnecessary exertion. So, as we sip our third glass of Chardonnay (Babcock 2005, with attractive notes of orange and tangerine blossoms, crisp acidity, full-bodied, juicy fruit, and a subtle touch of wood) we look to yet another site [...]

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Between coughing spells, the ailing Waterblogged.info team points you to WaterSISWEB, which is, in the hosts’ words:

. . .a SISWEBS (Scientific Information Syndication WEBsiteS)family website, dedicated to Water Resources. This SISWEB is a place for Water Resources professionals to share information. Scientists, researchers, students, and industry professionals can use this free community service to [...]

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We were momentarily surprised to get a pingback from Gender & Water Community (GWC), a blog focused on, in the editors’ words, “sharing gender perspectives in everyday water use.” They’d linked to our recent post about rainmaking. “What the heck does cloud-seeding have to do with gender?” we pondered during our morning time-wasting chatter fest. [...]

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Prolonged drought breeds desperation and desperation can lead to seeking out and putting faith in unconventional measures. This is why rainmakers have always been and will always be with us. And that’s why the dire prognosis for the world’s water supply has brought a renewed interest in cloud-seeding. Writer Elizabeth Svoboda describes the latest [...]

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The wrenching wails emanating from the copy editor’s direction cut through the normal bustling din of the Waterblogged.info press room like a sharp cutting implement of some sort. “WTF?” the entire editorial team thought as we surrounded his cubicle. Did his chihuahua, Marmaduke, die? Did he lose at that goddamned video game he plays [...]

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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 [...]

Filed under: For the love of water, Jack Bauer, Maude Barlow, Privatization, Privatization of water, bottled water, contaminated water, global water problems, water conservation, water contamination | 5 Comments »

Executive summary
Today we proudly launch Getting serious with Waterblogged.info: Water Privatization, a page of web resources related to the question of whether small groups of people should be permitted to own and control the elixir of life and disseminate it to the rest of the globe for their personal gain. Obviously, we don’t think [...]

Filed under: Privatization, Privatization of water, global water problems | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

Filed under: bottled water, global water problems | 3 Comments »

Onion Radio News’s anchor, Doyle Redland, reports that the beverage industry was “rocked by a new poll” showing that “disease-free water tops the list of world’s favorite beverages.” The astute journalist muses that “many of these people might want potable water for the purpose of adding flavored powders.”

This recent Onion infographic lists the approaches taken [...]

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Welcome to Waterblogged.info’s gala holiday special, the really special thing being that we posted at all. Let’s just call our editorial team’s failure to post anything for over a week an intentional and carefully planned holiday hiatus and leave it at that.
And speaking of intention, let’s also point out that we mindfully wrote ten [...]

Filed under: Atlanta, Atlanta drought, California water, Georgia drought, Great Lakes, Water wars, desalination, global water problems | 6 Comments »