Hi water geeks:
It's
World Toilet Day, so hug your toilet and be thankful for your wastewater treatment guys!
More later today about Judge Jerald Valentine's decision yesterday in the Lower Rio Grande adjudication, after I've had a chance to read through the latest. All I know is Scott Boyd was practically shouting for joy. Perhaps he sees some light at the end of his families more than 100-year battle with the feds over their RG water…
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Added by Staci Matlock on November 19, 2009 at 9:33am —
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If any of you know people interested in natural resource management, here's an opportunity to check out:
Natural Resource Managers for Future
National recruiting for summer 2010 Conservation Intern Program (CIP) posts throughout the Northeast Region is expected to begin again in December. The CIP program is meant to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the natural resources ranks. Just as last year, there will be 30 slots to fill.
To learn more:…
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Added by Staci Matlock on November 10, 2009 at 9:17am —
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AP's story on the desire of Arizona cities to acquire agriculture water has a familiar ring.
In particular I like this quote: "We don't want to get into a situation of saying 'My use is better than yours,' " said Tom Davis, general manager of the Yuma County Water Users Association. "But there needs to be a better way than just whoever has the most money gets the most water."
Arizona's cities, along with Las Vegas, Nev and sou…
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Added by Staci Matlock on November 5, 2009 at 9:58am —
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Hi water geeks,
It is gorgeous along the Santa Fe River trail right now with the cottonwoods all golden. Some host the largest leaves I have ever seen on cottonwoods, perhaps their size boosted by a long wet summer thanks to the constant trickle of water the city allowed down the channel.
Quite by accident I came across an interesting online paper by a University of Washington anthropology professor Devon G. Pena. Called the "…
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Added by Staci Matlock on October 27, 2009 at 9:43am —
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Check out the BBC documentary series, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (no irony there) this weekend on the likely impact of climate change on the world's cities.
The premier of Hot Cities, an eight-part landmark documentary series explores the impact of climate change on urban areas - health, water management, food security, migration. The first episode of the series, “Busting at the Seams” airs Sat., Oct. 24 on BBC World News.
Lagos, Shanghai, Durban, Surat and Los Angeles are among t…
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Added by Staci Matlock on October 23, 2009 at 9:28am —
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If our own government officials were only this creative:
From Global Water News Watch, summarized by Louise Shaler:
"President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other top officials of the Maldives Islands signed a document calling upon all the countries in the world to cut their carbon dioxide emissions, emphasizing the ruin that will follow if global climate change continues at its present pace. The Maldives is the lowest-lying nation on Earth at 7 ft (21 m) above sea level, and rising sea levels threa…
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Added by Staci Matlock on October 19, 2009 at 9:49am —
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I grew up where a lot of people had to haul water and still relied on kerosene lanterns for light at night. Things are still that way in a few parts of my old stomping grounds in the Navajo Nation.
Electricity, like running water, is something most of us in America take for granted. In working on a story recently about New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperatives, I found out the national organization works all over the world helping bring electricity to remote villages. Now in the day of climate cha…
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Added by Staci Matlock on October 19, 2009 at 9:24am —
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Many of the boxes piled up in the third room of our little Santa Fe rental are photos of springs, hot and cold, hidden among the desert folds of Nevada, Arizona and California. They are a decade's worth of photos my daughter's father took as he traveled across the Black Rock Desert, Navajo country and the Sierras. He documented springs that no longer exist, paved over for Las Vegas suburbs. He photographed springs smack dab in the middle of absolutely nowhere, tiny pockets of water life among ha…
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Added by Staci Matlock on October 6, 2009 at 9:00am —
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Hi water geeks,
Happy (day after) the New Water Year! The Waterwired guy posted a reminder that the new water year starts Oct. 1. So we begin Water Year 2010! I've been delighted with the moisture we've had so far in September in the City Different. Let's hope it is a good sign of things to come, like lots of snow!
Susan Montoya Bryan's
piece today on…
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Added by Staci Matlock on October 2, 2009 at 11:45am —
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The Senate finally takes up the greenhouse gas debate now that Sens. Boxer and Kerry have introduced their version of a bill approved by the U.S. House over the summer.
Frankly, I have left this climate legislation stuff to the Journal's John Fleck (their climate maestro) and Washington's press corps. It is a complicated mess of formulas, scenarios and climate models. The bottom line question is the bottom line:
What will it cost energy consumers to regulate greenhouse gases?
What will it cost…
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Added by Staci Matlock on September 30, 2009 at 10:14am —
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Buenos dias, water groupies,
Just to let you know, I'll be moving out of this site to my own dedicated page soon where I'll talk about more than water. (Gasp! Really. There is more to life than water, but few things more important.) I'll let you know the link soon for any of you interested.
Meanwhile, this was a nice note from the new Warning Coordination Meteorologist. Note he has a masters in water resources from UNM!
"My name is Kerry Jones and I will assume a new role as the Warning Coord…
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Added by Staci Matlock on September 22, 2009 at 9:05am —
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Happy Friday, water geeks,
Two good stories today in case you missed them:
AP's Susan Montoya Bryan writes about Albuquerque's move to
treat wastewater with ultraviolet light. The wastewater from half a million of the city's residents is treated and dumped back into the Rio Grande. The waste treatment plant's $7.4 million renovation is supposed to take care of that.
Also by AP, Jason Dearen and the AP team expose the…
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Added by Staci Matlock on September 18, 2009 at 2:25pm —
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Feliz viernes, water geeks:
It is time for me to make amends to Renny Russell, a long-time river dude from Questa. Here's my formal apology to you Renny. A year ago our book editor handed me Renny's book, Rock Me on the Water: A Life on the Loose, published in 2007. It got put in my ever-growing pile and while it looked good, I didn't get around to reading it this summer.
I highly recommend it to all water geeks and poets and nature lovers and out-of-the-box thinkers. Parts of the book are a b…
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 28, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Good morning, water groupies,
It is a gorgeous almost fall morning here in SF and yesterday's blessed rain put a nice flow back in the SF river.
The nation mourns Ted Kennedy's passing. Well, except for maybe Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
In Las Cruces, state District Judge Jerald A. Valentine, will
hear arguments about a fundamental question that Scott Boy…
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 26, 2009 at 10:04am —
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Good Monday morning,
My daughter, who began her first day of high school today with butterflies pounding her stomach, was kind enough to think of her mother during a recent whirlwind trip to Ouray, Colo. She picked up a couple of post-cards perfect for her strange mama. I wish I could show you the pictures here on the blog by photographer Paul Stanton.
My favorite? Two men in a field by an acequia about to bash each other over the head with shovels. It reads: "Discussing Water Rights - A Favori…
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 24, 2009 at 8:54am —
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Most of you water groupies who still bother to read my blather probably already are on the WaterWired list as well, It is an excellent water blog.
In case you aren't, and you are as fascinated with the Pat Mulroy charachter in LV as I am, read WaterWired's latest two posts about her. Makes me definitely want to run out and buy Power Broker to read about her alter ego.
Here's the
Aug. 18 post.
Here…
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 21, 2009 at 11:29am —
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I walked along the Santa Fe River this morning with my dogs and the river has now dried up past St. Francis. A few pools are all that's left. The city Public Utilities Committee will take up the issue of "turning the river off" Wednesday (Aug. 19) at 4 p.m. The city council in late spring voted to let some water flow through the reservoirs and down the river. The PUC now will revisit the policy and the Santa Fe Watershed Association wants people to turn out in support of a "living flow".
The co…
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 18, 2009 at 1:34pm —
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What a rain yesterday. Here's what the arroyo along Siringo looked like by 4:30 p.m.
Here's another
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 14, 2009 at 2:28pm —
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Hi water geeks,
For those of you who love problem solving and tinkering with all things mechanical,
check out a few that recently won the James Dyson Award honoring those who resolve problems in a "radical way."
One is the floating Creef robot that picks up trash out of canals. We could use that up at Monastery Lake near Pecos and even in the Rio Grande!
Jim Terr…
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 13, 2009 at 12:27pm —
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For you water geek/number cruncher types:
Ever wondered if a tankless hot water heater would be worth the cost?
Check out this little
analysis at Get With Green.com
Now all I want to know is will a tankless hot water heater work with propane? Any green liners know?
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Added by Staci Matlock on August 6, 2009 at 4:16pm —
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