Transboundary Word Cloud
Gayle Leonard has made a word cloud of all the various transboundary waterblogger talk. Cool stuff.
Archive of posts filed under the water category.
Transboundary Issues: Where Are All the Water Wars?
Wendy Barnaby has an excellent piece in last week’s Nature (free for now, behind the paywall soon) challenging the conventional wisdom that wars of scarce water supplies are a likely result of the collision between population growth, aridity and climate change. Barnaby had set out to write a book about water wars. But the more …
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It Ain’t Rainin’ Down In Texas
Richard Seager plays his traditional role of scaring the crap out of Westerners: What is permanent drought? It’s pretty much just like it sounds. When I ask (with serious journalistic intonation, I might add) how long a permanent drought would last, he answers simply: “It would just become the new climate.” Duh. (h/t Laura Paskus) …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere, Colorado River Edition
From today’s newspaper, a look at decision-making in the face of uncertainty on the Colorado River: Trying to follow the science of climate change and the Colorado River, it would be easy to throw up your hands. Very smart scientists (Hoerling among them) have come up with very different answers about how climate change might …
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Water in the Desert: West of the Pecos
L and I took a drive out on the eastern side of New Mexico’s central mountains today, up the Pecos River through the little villages of Villanueva and Ribera. You can think of the Pecos as a dividing line between the country’s great flat middle and the broken geology of the southwest. The phrase “west …
Transboundary Water Issues
Daniel Collins at Crikey Creek has a great suggestion for folks in the water blogging community: In the spirit of World Water Day, and in an effort to contribute towards transboundary cooperation, I propose that all us waterbloggers (and other bloggers too!) dedicate one or more of our posts that day or beforehand specifically to …
Water Policy and the Sound of One Hand Clapping
David Zetland, on the emphasis on water supply (at the expense of discussion of demand) in a new federal report on water and climate change: I just wish that more than two percent of the report was concerned with demand-side strategies. Relying only on the supply side is like one hand clapping.
Crying Drought
One of the common themes in drought journalism (mine at times included, sadly) is the tendency to cry “drought” at minor excursions into the down side of natural variability, when the real problem is not so much water supply as voracious consumption. Blaming nature is a whole lot easier than blaming ourselves. Is that the …
Dry Colorado
Great piece by Matt Jenkins in the latest High Country News about the Colorado River, and how it doesn’t really have as much water as we think. If you care about western water (or love a good water yarn), go read the whole thing.
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere, Dry Weather Edition
Closing out a rainless February, Albuquerque ties the record for driest start to a year. update: Just for the record, while there was no rain at the official Albuquerque weather station, I did record 0.01 inch at my house Feb. 11.