It’s my deeply held conviction that BP is to blame for the ongoing destruction of life in the Gulf of Mexico and that every pointer digit of every person in the U.S. should be locked on the multinational behemoth—and its odious little weasel of a CEO, Tony Hayward. More moderate voices, such as Professor Noah [...]
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If you want to make a donation that will have an immediate impact, consider Partners in Health, a UNICEF-supported NGO. They’ve been delivering extraordinary health care services to poor Haitians since 1985. PIH is community-based and well-positioned to deliver effective medical care quickly. You can donate online here: http://www.pih.org/home.html
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Hate to pick on Alternet, which I think is generally great, great, great, but I’m not sure why they chose to publish Yasha Levine’s article titled “Why Just About Everything You Hear About California’s Water Crisis Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong“. (Whoaa, that title is long, long, long!) I don’t think the article is necessarily wrong [...]
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In yesterday’s post (January 3, 2010), my tongue-in-cheek list of New Year’s resolutions included a solid commitment to angle for Asian carp in the Great Lakes. The tongue-out-of-cheek fact is that there are–most likely–very few Asian carp in the Great Lakes–for now. That’s a good thing. If they manage to enter Lake Michigan in large [...]
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Like the “Fifty things to do before you die” lists, New Year’s resolutions are driven by a nagging, narcissistic dissatisfaction that feels an awful lot like guilt. But the “fifty things” lists are more ambitious than the typical beginning-of-the-year vows to go to the gym five times a week and organize your iTunes library. They’re [...]
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What does a water blog worthy of the name do when the editor-in-chief is slogging through the swamp of endless demands that constitutes an annoying yet relatively lucrative day gig? Why, said water blog links to a really great site like Food & Water Watch–and lets said really great site do the heavy lifting. But [...]
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The last page of every issue of the indispensable Harper’s Magazine—often referred to (by me) as the chronicle of the slow-motion apocalypse—features “Findings,” a disturbing presentation of scores of recent scientific discoveries. Deviously disguised as a quotidian article with sentences organized in paragraphs, it is really an artful and jarring arrangement of one- or two-sentence [...]
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An effort most likely to win a Pulitzer Prize by journalistic award magnet Charles Duhigg: Toxic Water, a series about the continued and worsening pollution of U.S. water. Nationwide, there have been over 500,000 violations of the Clean Water Act of 1972. Some are minor, but 60 percent were categorized as significant, and the vast [...]
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Yesterday’s post was about unjust water shutoffs on the East Coast. Today, to be fair and balanced, we’re all about the West Coast. The one-person editorial staff of Waterblogged.info edits the Berkeley School of Law’s alumni magazine, Transcript. In the last issue, we featured the work of the East Bay Community Law Center, which is [...]
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Or at least from the point of view of the easily-enraged, given-to-hyperbolic-vitriol, and overly-reliant-on-hyphenated-adjectives Waterblogged.info. There are several reasons for failure to pay utility bills. One, I suppose, is trying to game the system–you notice that month after month of nonpayment brings threats but no action, and your lights keep glowing, and your water keeps [...]
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AquaforniaNewsy essential blog about Southern California water prospects
