Posted on December 24, 2007 by Jared Simpson
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 »
Posted on December 14, 2007 by Jared Simpson
If you ever have the need to refute one of those annoying intelligent design adherents, just follow Waterblogged.info’s standard operating procedure: point to the distribution of the planet’s freshwater and ask–in as sardonic a fashion as possible–This is intelligent?
From Global Envision, (an organization that for some reason sees the free market as the only [...]
Filed under: Great Lakes, Lake Baikal | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 12, 2007 by Jared Simpson
When Russians hear about our so-called Great Lakes, they just laugh in that hearty Russian way. Sure the Fab Fresh Five combined contain 18 percent of the world’s fresh water, but Lake Baikal (pictured left), located in Siberia north of Mongolia, holds 20 percent of everyone’s favorite combination of salt-free hydrogen and oxygen; while it [...]
Filed under: Great Lakes, Lake Baikal, Lake Superior, Peter Annin, Water wars, water transfers | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 24, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Veteran journalist Peter Annin used the above sensational title for his 2006 book about the dubious future of what is approximately 18 per cent of the world’s freshwater. Yep. The Fab Fresh Five—Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario—constitute the largest freshwater system on the planet. (Poor little Lake St. Clair, though part of the [...]
Filed under: Great Lakes, Lake St. Clair, Peter Annin, Water wars | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Environmental destruction, Great Lakes | No Comments »
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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