The Aquadoc
Mike Campana, one of my favorite water academics, launches WaterWired with a reprise of the case against bottled water.
Archive of posts filed under the water category.
Water in the Desert
San Juan-Chama Project pipe, Albuquerque, Jan. 7 2007 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. When I was in Phoenix a couple of years ago, I made a pilgrimage to the Frank Lloyd Wrightish Biltmore. Phoenix is flat-out desert, hot, just 7.5 inches of rain (19 cm) a year. But the Biltmore is an oasis, green, cool and …
The Canadian John Wesley Powell
In the U.S. western water community, John Wesley Powell is a legend for his insight about the difficulties of building a society in an arid land. But we can be a bit parochial here in the states, so until today I’d never heard of his (sort of) Canadian counterpart, John Palliser. Palliser explored the northern …
Water Supply Update
It looks yesterday’s premise is holding – despite the extraordinary blanket of white in my backyard, the snowpack in the Rio Grande Basin, source of a big chunk of New Mexico’s water supply, didn’t pick up a whole lot from the Great Storm of ’06. Tom Pagano, who does the runoff forecasts for us out …
Water in the Desert
Storm ’06 – cactus Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. This is the sort of thing tailor-made for Us Media, and we “people of the year” are in full flower today in Albuquerque.
Storm of 2006: Water Supply Implications
Dec. 30, 2006 Colorado Snowpack Map Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It’ll be another few days before the InterWeb data sources catch up with what the eastern two Four Corners states must call the Big Storm of 2006, but the preliminary data suggests that the water supply implications are less significant than the enormous pile of …
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How the Storm Played Out
Apologies for those outside of New Mexico for today’s digression, but we’re having a shared experience, a kind of community hug. Snowmen. People walking in the middle of the street because the tire tracks are the easiest place to walk. Cars going slow and being polite about the people walking in the middle of the …
Storm of the Century and Stuff
From our friends at the National Weather Service: 00 SXUS75 KABQ 300848 RERABQ RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 148 AM MST SAT DEC 30 2006 …RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL SET AT ALBUQUERQUE NM… A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 11.3 INCHES WAS SET AT THE ALBUQUERQUE SUNPORT YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF …
12″
Sadie in the snow Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. To measure your snowfall, pick an open area, away from the influence of buildings, trees, etc. Use a ruler or yardstick and take three separate measurements at widely separated spots. Average the results. Sadie does not care about this level of detail. Her concern seems to be …
Nile Deal
The AP’s Charles Hanely reports that a deal is near between the nine nations that share (or don’t share) the waters of the Nile: After three years of closed-door talks, nine nations are quietly edging toward a deal to jointly oversee the waters of the Nile, an agreement that has eluded lands along the great …