Posted on March 9, 2008 by Jared Simpson
Herein, sorely vexed by the fact that an entire hour has been stolen from our lives by a magical process called daylight saving, we sullenly and lazily provide links to a lot of bad news about water, complete with peevish commentary.
Water makes US troop in Iraq sick.
Thanks to Dick Cheney (Where is he now, anyway? [...]
Filed under: Atlanta, Atlanta drought, Baghdad water, California water, Iraq, Tennessee Georgia Water War, Water wars, contaminated water, drought, water hog | No Comments »
Posted on March 6, 2008 by Jared Simpson
[Note: Some information in this posting may be, and probably is, erroneous. Because we accepted the statement by Iraqui spokesperson, Tahseen Sheikhly (cited below), that a lake of raw sewage in Baghdad is so large that it can currently be seen on Google Earth, we assumed that the images available for Baghdad were [...]
Filed under: Baghdad water, Iraq, contaminated water, sewage, sewage treatment, water pollution | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Waterblogged.info’s elevator rant: In 1983, Sadam Hussein’s engineers build a gigantic dam on a bed of soft, water-soluble rock and guess what it starts to leak almost immediately and they have to keep injecting a concrete mixture into its base continuously so it doesn’t collapse and after the U.S. invades it leads an effort [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Mosul dam, U.S Army Corps of Engineers, dams | No Comments »
Posted on October 27, 2007 by Jared Simpson
The Waterblogged.info team sat in stunned and uncharacteristic silence as our obviously exasperated editorial director went over our performance evaluation, point by point, explaining why we not only failed to get the overall Exceeds Expectations rating that we fully anticipated–leading to a raise and water-cooler bragging rights–but instead got spanked with an unexpected and embarrassing [...]
Filed under: Darfur, Georgia drought, Iraq, Iraq Marshlands, Katie Couric, Marsh Arabs, Snake River, United States drought, Water facts, desalination, drought, global water problems, innovative products, river restoration, solar distillation | 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 August 8, 2007 by Jared Simpson
Much of Baghdad has been without water for the last six days. Read why here. Meanwhile U.S. troops use immense amounts of readily available water to keep as cool as they can. Read about it in this article, where we learn that water is the “best weapon” for keeping U.S. troops cool enough to carry [...]
Filed under: Iraq, water pollution | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
Filed under: Environmental destruction, Iraq, Iraq Marshlands, Marsh Arabs, aral sea | No Comments »
