MGhydro on Twitter, 20110621 edition

Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 

18 June (Saturday)

• Dear friends and colleagues, my collected tweets related to Hydro-Logic blog for 13-17 June are now posted at http://bit.ly/jyhW9n 
• My review of "The Big Thirst" by Charles Fishman is now posted on the Hydro-Logic blog at http://bit.ly/irW05e 
• Reading Fagan now, decidedly NOT Solomon or Diamond... RT @WaterWired: Water Book Trifecta: Swihart, Fagan, and Sarni http://bit.ly/lkv9Cw 
• RT @WaterWired @watercrunch 13 months to go for Atlanta before doomsday--AJC's editorial on the Tri-state water wars. http://j.mp/jWTGiE 
• When planning is outlawed... MT @EI_Water: House Forbids USDA From Preparing For Climate Disasters http://j.mp/k9w68c via @TP_Green 
• Congress' own... RT @columbiawater: NYT: 'Perfect Storm' Along Missouri River Puts Army Corps Policies in Cross Hairs http://nyti.ms/kizjP8 
• RT @RDRWA @SEAlbertawaters @indigenous_news: Huge new boreal forest preserve in Manitoba http://is.gd/Bixf0B via @LATimes
• RT @Waterlution: "To me, innovation is using the tools you have for purposes they weren't intended." Klas Ohman #waterfuturecalg 
• Rec'd e-mail from author of "The Big Thirst," said he appreciated time taken + approach of my review http://bit.ly/irW05e -- v. gratified :)

19 June (Sunday)

• C'mon monsoon! RT @wanderingtracy: India monsoon 9% below normal in past week as rice and cotton crops suffer http://reut.rs/jn15ck

20 June (Monday)

• "Energy and Water: Efficiency, Generation, Management, and Climate Impacts," 31 July - 3 Aug 2011, Chicago IL -- http://www.wef.org/Energy/ 
• SOLVE? I am so useless now... RT @ITTWatermark successfully uses virtual crowdsourcing to help solve world water crisis http://bit.ly/iD2Sqt 
• "Russia's EuroSibEnergo, Chinese co-sign cooperation agreement" including 2 hydropower dams in Siberia http://bit.ly/kMUZWI via @HydroWorld 
• MT @unifymissriver Miss. River levee repairs may cost $1B. Should flood mgmt practices be addressed by citizens first? http://huff.to/jJlr96 
• MT @SEAlbertawaters @NESASK: Floods displace hundreds in SE Saskatchewan. More rain on way. Wettest May-June on record http://bit.ly/kIA0c1
• MT @peakwater: $12M Inter-American Development Bank loan granted to improve water supply in Guyana http://peakwater.org/?p=6022 #MDG7C
• MT @WaterWired: I'll say! Via @LPAWater water districts scramble as MWD puts 225K AF on sale for $409/AF. That's cheap! http://goo.gl/uhaRV
• From "The Big Thirst" -- 1 AF = 325,851 gal; avg $ for 1 AF to a US family ~$1056, a Las Vegas family ~$883, an Imperial Valley farmer ~$19.
• Cost to US taxpayers for Las Vegas water supply reasonably incl. partial function of Hoover Dam, $49M in 1931, $3.76B by GDP inflation today
• But the investment in Hoover Dam has paid for itself several times over the 80 yrs since then with power sales (anyone know exact stats?)
• Cost to US taxpayers for Imperial Valley water supply reasonably incl. part function of Alamo, Coachella, All-American Canals + Imperial Dam
• Financials on these projects, most of them originally part of the Boulder Canyon Project (which auth'd Hoover Dam) are far more complicated.
• And given current effort at lining All-American Canal, costs continue to accrue...
• Let's just say for now that those costs have been repaid (not likely), so consider benefits to economy as per "The Big Thirst" discussion...
• Imperial Valley receives ~1.6M AF and generates ~$1.5B in economic activity per year, almost all as wages and food value...
• Las Vegas receives ~280,000 AF of water per year (net after credits) and generates ~$8.8B in economic activity, almost all as wages alone...
• Las Vegas tourism has an economic impact per gallon of water ~24x that of Imperial Valley farming, but where would we be without that food?
• RT @highlyanne: sensationalistic post missing lots of context. Grr MT @BoraZ: More Dangerous Than Nuclear: Floods Caused by Aging Dams http://bit.ly/mRymfE
• Many farm fish to survive, US just for "sport" MT @EI_Water: Enviro impact research urged for fish farming: SciDev.Net http://j.mp/lmpqcv
• Flawed argument in aggregate equiv. to big dams... RT @columbiawater: SciDevNet: Small hydro could add up to big damage http://bit.ly/lwPR0G

21 June (Tuesday)

• Least. Efficient. Toilet. EVER. RT @UWW_Water: Man Urinates in Water, City Flushes 8M Gallons http://bit.ly/m6GqZY on Fluent News
• International Water Week, 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2011, Amsterdam, the Netherlands -- http://www.internationalwaterweek.com/ 
• UNESCO-IHP and UCI Conf. on Groundwater Resources Management, 30 Nov - 3 Dec 2011, Irvine CA -- http://www.groundwater-conference.uci.edu/
• Water and Health Conference, 3-7 October 2011, Chapel Hill, NC -- http://whconference.unc.edu/ 
• International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, 15-23 October 2011, Tehran, Iran -- http://www.icid2011.org/
• UNECE/FAO Forest and Water Week, 4-8 July 2011, Geneva, Switzerland -- http://timber.unece.org/ 
• USACE Workshop on Restoration of Streams + Riparian Areas for WQ + Ecological Fn, 27-29 July 2011, Omaha NE -- http://bit.ly/jzwjrI (pdf)
• Woot! RT @BoraZ: On the @sciam Guest Blog: Book Review: "The Future of Water" http://bit.ly/iY18JG by @MGhydro
• MT @JacquelynGill @Climatechg: Causes of melting tropical glaciers over past 10k years identified: ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/iN8gTE
• RT @WaterWired: Pew Center blog: Water Resources and Climate Change: A Key Area of Concern http://is.gd/fOIsNR 
• Common-enemy doctrine... MT @bryanrwalsh @guardian Could peace talks ever end the 'climate war'? http://bit.ly/ieKO4I
• "Fear" is likely, "steal" is not... RT @waterca: How likely is the fear the West could steal Great Lakes water? http://tinyurl.com/4xv57ku
• Portland OR (8M gal "flush") already 5 yrs behind EPA rule against open "finished water" reservoirs http://bit.ly/kIGC62 via @WaterWatchNews
• NorAm Forest Ecology Workshop poster -- RT @kjmcguire: Forest watershed management, water yield, and climate change http://wp.me/p1hroP-3t
• Gosh, a whole 30 minutes? RT @rivrchik @WCELaw: Why Treaty 8 Nations are turning to the United Nations over Site C Dam http://bit.ly/mDQwkL 
• MT @WaterWired: Op-Ed by Steven Solomon: The Mississippi, No Longer Muddy, Still a Threat. http://is.gd/0mjXDA
• All progress is voluntary... RT @ASCETweets: Dams May Be Rated for Environmental and Social Impacts Under New Agreement http://ow.ly/5n69G 
• Accelerating shortages of food and clean water... RT @WaterOnline: Pakistan ‘experiencing acute water stress’ http://ow.ly/5mKR9
• MT @unifymissriver: Ag in Mississippi River states gets $14.4M from USDA-NRCS to improve water qual + wildlife habitat http://bit.ly/iQp8nP 
• Short-term help, but is it sustainable? RT @ASCETweets: Senator Mark Kirk seeks private cash for public infrastructure http://ow.ly/5n1Jk
• HidroAysen on hold -- RT @highlyanne: Court suspends Chile dam works http://bbc.in/lMD7nS