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This looks like problems for the Kirtland Air Force Base groundwater contamination
There is an Air Force Base on Albuquerque south side. It has contaminated our aquifer. The relationship between the community and the Air Force regarding cleanup has been rocky. More rocks:
Water, seeping through language
Deep in the copy edits for our new book, Eric and I have stumbled into this minor obstacle: Mainstream, main stream, mainstem, or main stem??? The Supreme Court commonly used mainstream in its 1963 AZ v CA decision – Now Merriam-Webster appears to have taken the word away from rivers. @jfleck and I use …
Morning bike ride – *totally* work related
My “job”, as director of the University of New Mexico Water Resources Program, requires me to pay close attention to New Mexico’s water. So of course when I saw this morning that the Rio Grande’s flow through Albuquerque had topped 2,500 cubic feet per second, I had to conduct “field work”. Anything above 2,300 cfs …
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The Ciénega de Santa Clara and the question of “waste”
It’s important to be clear of what we mean by “waste” when we talk about “wasting” water. Because it’s always going someplace, and doing something. In Albuquerque, for example, we talk about reusing effluent from our sewage treatment plant. But we currently treat that water and put it back in the Rio Grande, where it …
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Is San Diego reviving the idea of building its own Colorado River Aqueduct?
A cryptic item in the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the San Diego Water Authority Board suggests the agency may still harbor an interest in having its own canal to the Colorado River, separate from the current system through which it gets its Colorado River water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. alternative …
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Science Be Dammed, coming Nov. 26
We have a publication date and a web site and an Amazon listing for Science Be Dammed, the new book by Eric Kuhn and myself about the use and misuse of science in the development of the Colorado River. And a cover. The book has a cover:
A Good Runoff Forecast; The Language We Use
The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center’s April 1 forecast is up 1.9 million feet from a month earlier. How to think about how much water that is? A friend who thinks a lot about water and public communication, but who is not from the Colorado River Basin, was commenting recently on our euphemisms – the …
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Private utilities are better at conserving water than public ones
Manny Teodoro, a Texas A&M researcher who’s been doing important work on municipal utility governance and rate structures, has an update today on the 2018 California water conservation data. Point one, which is important given some breathless and totally premature journalism last year about California’s water conservation post-Big Drought, is that municipal water use remains …
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Imperial, the Salton Sea, and the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan
Tuesday was a remarkable day for Colorado River Basin governance. The Good With the kinda sorta now approved Drought Contingency Plan, we have the first formal commitment from the basin states to quantified water use cutbacks of more than a million acre feet per year as Lake Mead drops. With important caveats, this is enough …
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