I heart Robert Glennon
Posted on | July 16, 2009 | No Comments
From the king of water bloggers Aquadoc of WaterWired, this on Robert Glennon, a groovy enough water guy to make it to the Daily Show …. (to watch last night’s episode, click here)
Review: Robert Glennon’s ‘Unquenchable’
Robert Glennon, inveterate Boston Red Sox fan that he is, has hit another home run. His first one came in
the form of Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters.But now he has topped that with Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It.
Shill alert #1: Before providing my review I must confess that I am a huge fan of Glennon’s. I’ve seen his Water Follies talk four times. Two of those times I invited him. I never get tired of hearing him. He is an excellent, entertaining speaker with an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject. And anyone who begins a chapter (7) with a line from a Doobie Brothers’ song has my vote.
For Aquadoc on Glennon, click here.
This post was updated on 7/17/2009. The link to the Daily Show was added.
Peripheral canal drilling could start next month
Posted on | July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
SACRAMENTO — State water officials plan to drill into channel bottoms at 16 locations throughout the Delta as they explore possible intake sites for a peripheral canal, reports the Stockton Record.
The drilling could begin as soon as next month.
The California Department of Water Resources said it needs data about channel soils to help plan where a canal would begin, as well as tunnels for various proposed alignments. The state has been surveying private lands for some time, a Water Resources spokesman said today, but this stage of the project requires notification and a public comment period, which ends July 26.
To keep reading, click on the state seal. Story via Aquafornia.
See past stories on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Peripheral Canal and concerns from environmentalists and fisheries by using the search key at the bottom of the page, or going to AP and Onwards: Press from the West.
“Daylighting” urban rivers
Posted on | July 16, 2009 | No Comments
FROM THE New York Times science blog Dot Earth comes this Yonkers Historical Society 1920s photograph of a giant flume being run where the Saw Mill River used to flow. Now, according to a story by Andrew C. Revkin, Yonkers is trying to unbury the river to create a greenway.
For Revkin’s blog on movements around the world, including in Los Angeles, to “daylight” buried or paved rivers, click here.
For information about moves to restore the Los Angeles River, click here.
Weekly drought map
Posted on | July 16, 2009 | No Comments
Click on map for link to the National Drought Mitigation Center
Tags: chance of rain > Emily Green > National Drought Mitigation Center > US Drought Monitor
Water Follies on Comedy Central
Posted on | July 15, 2009 | No Comments
A WEEK after the US Government Accountability Office report on the bottled water industry, one of the industry’s most damning critics, Arizona water law specialist Robert Glennon, will be appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tomorrow night (Thursday, July 16). Will he talk about plastic covered H2O? Or the remorseless mining of our groundwater (subject of his 2002 book Water Follies)? Or perhaps the collapsing Pacific fisheries (these feature in his 2009 successor Unquenchable)? Glennon has no shortage of horror stories. One thing is sure. He will come armed with an urgent list of reforms that he sees as necessary to protect and preserve a dwindling and badly abused fresh water supply. The place he sees as crucial to leading the reform? The US Congress. It’s Comedy Central, but he’s not joking.
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