Happy anniversary, Atrazine!

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Jared Simpson

Everyone’s favorite herbicide (except for the EU) has, according to its Swiss producer Syngenta, been used safely by farmers for 50 years. Obvious cause for celebration, at least for Syngenta, which has no doubt enjoyed huge profits from its sales over those five decades. The chemical giant has invited us to share their joy by [...]

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Hooray for the EPA!

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Jared Simpson

Thanks to the Huffington Post, the ironically named Environmental Protection Agency will be getting credit for a modestly unannounced act of kindness. The folks living in some communities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas–states where farmers rely heavily on the herbicide atrazine–are no doubt spamming the EPA with thousands of animated e-cards of appreciation as [...]

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Getting Serious about Getting Serious: Apologies from Waterblogged.info

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Jared Simpson

Waterblogged.info is as embarrassed as this little guy being humiliated for some reason by his owner. For reasons that only the fine folk at WordPress could explain, our Getting Serious pages–that contain organized links to web resources about desalination, privatization, and groundwater– have been inaccessible from the menu on the right for only the gods [...]

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Regional focus: Tampa Bay water follies

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Jared Simpson

Jorge Aguilar of Alternet has written an article about Tampa Bay’s apparently doomed attempts to use ocean desalination as a panacea for its current and future water deficits. (Go to my public Evernote folder on Tampa Bay water that has links to several Florida news articles about Tampa Bay’s travails. Clicking on a story will [...]

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The American Museum of Natural History’s road show

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Jared Simpson

The American Museum of Natural History never sits still, literally. Yesterday, in a post that sports a title longer than the actual content, we pointed out NYC-based museum’s online iteration of their physical exhibit, Water: H2O=Life. Figuring that water is at least as popular as the Rolling Stones (and possibly even older), they have taken [...]

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Waterblogged.info’s longest title and shortest post ever: The American Museum of Natural History’s online water exhibit

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Jared Simpson

A great introduction to water science and issues for kids from eight to eighty. More later. No, really, dude.

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Waterblogged, waterblogged, fly away home!

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Jared Simpson

This morning, Waterblogged.info is bogged down in the arduous process of moving its operations back to Northern California–San Mateo, California specifically, approximately 20 miles south of San Francisco. It’s a difficult undertaking because it involves cramming souvenirs and gifts into imaginary spaces in luggage that was way overpacked in the first place. Serendipitously, or coincidentally–but [...]

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Waterblogged.info trapped in Marlborough, MA!

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jared Simpson

Waterblogged.info has changed its summer headquarters from NYC to Marlborough, MA because the editor in chief’s wife is attending a three-day conference here. He expected to hop on a bus or a train each day to see the sights and lights of Boston only to find that the largest hotel in Massachusetts outside of Boston [...]

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New York water wonks

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Jared Simpson

Today, the Waterblogged.info is leaving the the Big Apple and headed for Beantown. Our last in situ NY post comes to you via the New York Water Resources Institute, one of those academia-based (in this case Cornell) think tanks that aim to apply the concentrated power of the researchers’ oversized IQ’s to addressing the big [...]

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Young entrepreneur bottles and sells NYC tap water

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Jared Simpson

In an earlier post, we wrote about the renowned superiority of New York City tap water. This LA Times article tells the story of a young serial entrepreneur who is betting that reputation will convince many people to choose Tap’d NY–his brand name for bottled NY spigot juice–over Evian, Smartwater, and other top-selling brands. At [...]

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