8 June (Wednesday)
- Friends and colleagues, my collected tweets related to Hydro-Logic blog for 4-7 June are now posted at http://bit.ly/jMBSC0
- MT @columbiawater: India, Bangladesh finalize draft agreement on water sharing: Assam Tribune http://bit.ly/mcdHpK
- Just one mid-sized low-pop-density state... RT @WaterWired: $87B to meet OK's drinking water needs over next 50 years http://is.gd/EE2bZq
- Al Jazeera begins 3-part reporting series "Struggle Over the Nile" on historical + present issues + conflicts -- http://bit.ly/kxwLy0
- Friends around the world, "Cool Water Job: Upper Tigris Waterkeeper" on Hydro-Logic blog http://bit.ly/jJ8GFq @DrBondar @Waterkeeper
- "Engaging Difference" Workshop for Women in STEM Fields, 4-5 August 2011, Charlottesville VA -- http://www.virginia.edu/ead/
- Too bad the video does not say... RT @columbiawater: Army Corps Video: what if if the Mississippi system failed? http://bit.ly/k2u6E0
- MT @NEMWIUpperMiss: CEQ Releases Draft Plan to Protect Water Quality + Availability from Climate Change Impacts http://1.usa.gov/iVp23W
- Interesting positive feedback result for eastern US rains... MT @rivrchik: Improved Forecasting of Floods and Droughts http://bit.ly/kW2SKi
- Any water tweeps attending? MT @columbiawater: Film & Panel - Revealed: Himalayan Meltdown, Asia Society, NYC, June 14 http://bit.ly/ip0TLS
- Upper Colorado River surplus from heavy winter snows... MT @usbr: Bypass Releases to Begin Again at Flaming Gorge http://on.doi.gov/muLH6Q
- MT @WaterMattersAB: Growth has real water costs, Calgary has $1.3B debt for water and wastewater treatment http://bit.ly/kymKq0
- Pioneer in water power + canal hydraulics... MT @ASCETweets: Happy 287th Birthday to English civil engineer John Smeaton http://ow.ly/5de6G
- Depending on wind, temp, humidity, sun...pls don't oversimplify RT @NRDCWater: 1 acre of corn gives off 4k gal water per day in evaporation.
- Oooh, grrr, that tweet from @NRDCWater really needs a good response, something more than a tweet, because otherwise I may as well give up...
- @NRDCWater to @MGhydro don't give up! Yes, general number, sensitive to variables, as you say. Hard to pack detail in a tweet, cause u get cut off. :)
- @NRDCWater do you have a source for the number you used? I would appreciate knowing that much about the estimate...
- @NRDCWater to @mghydro Sure thing. See e.g. U.S. EPA http://ow.ly/5dAWU Figure's common--e.g., used by NASA to explain water cycle. http://ow.ly/5dB3n
- @NRDCWater thank you for the references!
- RT @EI_Water: Europe: Trapped Between Droughts and Floods: IPS http://j.mp/krZuVc
- "...completely impossible, egghead stuff..." MT @cbdawson @delenn77: NSF concludes "Science is Hard" http://onion.com/ihY74T
- Call for Abstracts now open for AGU Fall Meeting, 5-9 December 2011, San Francisco CA -- http://www.agu.org/fallmeeting
- MT @EI_Water: Bangladesh developing constitutional amendment to redress in-country damages due to climate change http://j.mp/mM5b54
- What we *need* is an *international* body to attribute + help redress country-to-country damages due to climate change, like UNFCCC + ICC...
- Instead of voluntary UNFCCC agreements + funds + mechanisms, simple + massive civil penalties might finally get attention of GHG emitters?
- In-country $$ for damages due to climate change is a welfare sol'n, but international redress is true compensation by haves to have-nots...
- Excellent Storify collection by the CBC about massive recent Australian summer flooding http://bit.ly/mzkemL h/t @AJEbsary
- Water-ag nexus just part of complex system MT @EI_Water: UN FAO: Climate change will cut water for farmers: Straits Times http://j.mp/lUXXjG
- MT @NASAJPL @NASA: Rocket software issue fixed--Aquarius/SAC-D launch set for Friday 10:20am EDT http://www.nasa.gov/aquarius
- Working up blog re AZ forest health from proposal materials... MT @NASA_EO: Landsat IR img, Wallow Fire, Arizona http://tinyurl.com/3b2khnz
- RT @TeamNewOrleans: UPDATE: June 9 2p CST: One bay closes at Morganza Floodway, one remains open.
- Bc they haven't asked. RT @hillaryrosner: Colorado River experts are concerned about lack of obvious leaders to promote a basin-wide vision.
- Colorado River "experts" don't really *want* a vision leader, because it would mean subjugating their individual visions to larger goals...
- Along Colorado River, there are 7 states + 16 Fed agencies + innumerable municipalities, politicians, and personalities vying for prominence
- ...not to mention Colorado River Compact, Treaty w Mexico, and a TON of science to be re-evaluated, with State Univ's wanting research $...
- ...and no matter the scientific outcomes of renewed examination of the Colorado River Basin, it all returns to politics of money and power.
- I have wanted for years to model and simulate the Colorado River Basin from top-to-bottom, but no-one wants a model telling them what to do.
- I have the background, the education, the skills, the interest, and the time to do it all...I just need someone to put up the $$ in support.
- I propose to examine past/present/future of the *entire* Colorado R Basin w physical modeling approach, need institution + $$. Any takers?
- MT @hillaryrosner: Colorado River shortages will fall unevenly on different states, leading to political instability http://bit.ly/kLZnee
- RT @hillaryrosner: John Fleck (@jfleck): there is no general agreement among Colo River stakeholders on the problem that we need to be solving.
- @H2ODVA to @MGhydro I thought you might find this interesting: usbr.gov/lc/region/prog…
- @H2ODVA thanks, yes--have seen USBR ideas, they are still part of the problem: responsibility only for Lower Basin, ignorance of Upper Basin.
- @H2ODVA to @MGhydro - As per Law of the River, Reclamation oversees the Lower Basin and the Upper Colorado River Commission oversees the Upper Basin.
- @H2ODVA yes, and yet another asymmetry to overcome...keep sending things you think of, will be glad to acknowledge help when I blog it soon!
- RT @unifymissriver: Drought, Mississippi River flooding reduce rice and cotton crops. A human as well as economic toll: http://bit.ly/mNtT4m
- RT @waterca: USA - Dwindling of Colorado River linked to climate change, energy production http://tinyurl.com/3tk988h
- RT @WaterWired: Working in emerging regions? U of OK WaTER Center Conference, 24-25 October. Abstracts due 15 June. http://is.gd/KlOmo4
- Hmmm... MT @EI_Water: Thousand-Year Precipitation Record for Rockies Shows Unusual Snowpack Declines: ClimateWire http://nyti.ms/iFUwqU
- Same study, a little more on-the-nose... RT @EI_Water: Rockies snow decline bad sign for water supply: Reuters http://reut.rs/iQaJXm
- Dr. Jon Blom speaking NOW! RT @jeffwiedner @NASAJPL @NASA public talk on impact of climate change on past civilizations http://ow.ly/1tDF1Q
- Cool! SRTM data was able to show ~1m *below* surface in desert regions, helping identify archaeological sites. @NASAJPL http://ow.ly/1tDF1Q
- History Lesson: don't be God's representative--you're culpable for drought+famine. Get elected instead! @NASAJPL http://ow.ly/1tDF1Q
- Sorry, that's Dr. Ron Blom lecturing at @NASAJPL right now http://ow.ly/1tDF1Q
- Holy cow! Total cost for BC Hydro's Site C up from $3.2B to $7.9B in 5 years! http://tgam.ca/C0dU h/t @rivrchik @SEAlbertawaters @ricksearle
- Relevant til law changes MT @WaterWired: Alive but Irrelevant: Prior Appropriation Doctrine in Today’s Western Water Law http://is.gd/2Z7srr
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