The week that was, March 20-26, 2016
Futurama II, four years out, buried castles, time is relative, dear reader. Water news as it crossed my radar, The week that was, March 20-26, 2016The week that was, March 13-19, 2016
Weekly water news: the National Gallery fountain flows again; lead, arsenic & PFOS crises expand; maiden flight of the Waterbird on Windermere; Australian crackdown on foreign H2O prospectors; celebrity water wasters; Irvine Water District at odds with OC neighbors on proposed Huntington Beach de-sal plant and more.The week that was, March 6-12, 2016
Almonds in drought on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. Photo: Emily Green
“We’re not collecting any more money from the ratepayers. All we’re doing is, we’re taking money and saying we are reclassifying it from an account payable to income.” — Westlands Water District general manager Tom Birmingham to his board, California water district fined by SEC over “Enron” accounting, New York Times, 3/11/16
Westlands Water District is broker than it looks from the outside. Without “Enron accounting,” they can barely afford their debt service. — Instead of ‘Supermarket to the World,’ On the Public Record, 3/9/16
“There were six Goliaths in there and all I had was just a little pea stone.” — Nolen Scott Ely, Dimock, PA resident whose well was poisoned by fracking by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp, Jury awards families $4.24 million in contaminated water case, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3/11/2016
Dimock, which …
The week that was, February 28-March 5, 2016
River martyr in Honduras, girls dream of clean water superheroes in Michigan, half the world for wildlife, pollution as art in Hawaii: the week's water news.The week that was, February 21-27, 2016
Anti-tax campaign slings shit at Calgary wastewater art, havoc in Delhi, giant of big waves in O'ahu bows out at mythic "Eddie" surf classic, Feds impersonate gangsters in haddock fraud in Massachusetts, big sugar pollution lays waste to spring break beaches in Florida, and more in this week's eclectic round-up of water stories from around the world by reporter Emily Green. « go back — keep looking »North American Native Plant Societies
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