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Favorite Blogs

  • Aguanomics
    The economics of water (and some other stuff), courtesy of economist David Zetland.
  • Alltop Water
    An aggregation of the top water blogs and their five most recent posts - all in one place!
  • Aquafornia
    The California water news blog by the Water Education Foundation.
  • Authentically Wired
    Water and a lot more from Paul F. Miller.
  • AWRA
    The water resources blog of the American Water Resources Association.
  • Blue Marble Earth
    A wandering, articulate Earth scientist just a few years from Vanderbilt University, Courtney van Stolk explores the 'whys' of this fantastic planet.
  • Building Bridges
    Anna Warwick Sears, Executive Director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board in British Columbia, provides an insider's view of water management.
  • California Water Blog
    A biologist, economist, engineer and geologist walk onto a bar…From the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC-Davis.
  • Campanastan
    That's 'Campana-stan', or 'Place of Campana', formerly 'Aquablog'. Michael Campana's personal blog, promulgating his Weltanschauung.
  • Chance of Rain
    Journalist Emily Green's take on water issues.
  • Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood
    The personal blog of Lloyd G. Carter, former UPI and Fresno Bee reporter, attorney, and California water observer for many years.
  • ClimateChangeWaterBlog
    Global travels in freshwater climate adaptation from John H. Matthews.
  • Cool Green Science
    The conservation blog of The Nature Conservancy. More than a dozen science and policy experts blogging away!
  • Dr. Anne Jefferson's Watershed Hydrology Lab
    Anne blogs from Kent State University on a variety of earth science topics.
  • Ecocentric
    A blog about food, water and energy.
  • Great Lakes Law
    Noah Hall's blog about - what else - all things wet and legal in the Great Lakes region!
  • GrokSurf
    George J. Janczyn opines on water, environment, technology, law and politics in the San Diego area.
  • Hydro-Logic
    Matthew Garcia reports on hydrology and water resources in the news and science media.
  • International Water Law Project
    Gabriel Eckstein, Director of the IWLP at Texas Tech University, comments on international and transboundary water law and policy.
  • JAWRA
    From Parker J. (Jim) Wigington, the editor of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
  • John Fleck
    Former science writer at the Albuquerque Journal. Great stuff on climate, water, and more.
  • Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy
    From the UC-Berkeley and UCLA law schools, it highlights the latest legal and policy initiatives and examines their implications.
  • Living in Actively Moving Water
    Chris Corbin blogs about water rights and water markets.
  • Maven's Notebook
    A water, science, and environmental policy blog by Chris Austin, aka 'Maven'. Focus is on California.
  • On The Public Record
    A 'low level civil servant who reads a lot of government reports writes about California water and related topics.
  • Random Groundwater Notes
    From Thomas Harter at UC-Davis:"Grundwasser" [groondvusr], German, n. groundwater, water below the surface of the earth
  • Wettit - the water reddit
    Water blog with tons of news items, other blogs, etc.
  • Riparian Rap
    Steve Gough on river geomorphology and the business, politics, and science of river ecosystem conservation.
  • Significant Figures by Peter Gleick
    Peter Gleick, WaterWonk extraordinaire, tells it like it is and should be with respect to water.
  • Texas Agriculture Law Blog
    Don't let the name fool you - there are lots of water issues in agriculture and Tiffany Dowell of Texas A&M University does a fabulous job with this important Internet resource. Give it a read - I do every day!
  • The Water Blog
    From the Portland, OR, Water Bureau.
  • The Way of Water
    Oregon State University Geography PhD Student, Jennifer Veilleux, records her fieldwork, research, and thoughts about transboundary water resources development in the Nile River and Mekong River basins. Particular attention is given to Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Laos' Xayaburi Dam projects.
  • Thirsty in Suburbia
    Gayle Leonard documents things from the world of water that make us smile: particularly funny, amusing and weird items on bottled water, water towers, water marketing, recycling, the art-water nexus and working.
  • This Day in Water History
    Michael J. 'Mike' McGuire, engineer extraordinaire, NAE member, and author of 'The Chlorine Revolution', blogs about historical happenings in the fields of drinking water and wastewater keyed to calendar dates.
  • WaSH Resources
    New publications, web sites and multi-media on water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH).
  • Waste, Water, Whatever
    Elizabeth Royte's ('Bottlemania', 'Garbage Land') notes on waste, water, whatever.
  • Water 50/50
    From Jay Famiglietti at UC-Irvine. Fifty lectures in fifty weeks: The 2012 Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectureship. A global lecture tour delivering the message about our changing water cycle, groundwater depletion, and the future of freshwater availability.
  • Water Matters
    News from the Columbia University Water Center.
  • Water SISWEB
    From UC-Davis water students. More than just a blog, it's a water resources community social bookmarking site. The users run the show, and all can participate.
  • Watercrunch
    The sound when people and water collide. A curious blend of water, infrastructure, history, and science. Broadcasting from Clemson, SC.
  • WaterCulture
    David Groenfeldt adds value to water policies.
  • Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere
    From Sarah Boon - rediscovering her writing and editing roots after 13 years, primarily as an environmental scientist. Her writing centres around creative non-fiction, specifically memoir and nature writing. The landscapes of western Canada are her main inspiration.
  • WaterWired
    All things fresh water: news, comment, and analysis from hydrogeologist Michael E. Campana, Professor at Oregon State University.
  • Western Water Blog
    The 'mystery blog' about Western USA water issues. What more can I say?
  • xAnalytical
    Doug Walker's xAnalytical blog:Turning Data and Information into Knowledge

Saturday, 20 July 2019

My Recollections of 20 July 1969: A Big Day for Geology and More!

I never imagined writing this recollection about the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon.

20 July 1969 is one of those dates that I'll always remember where I was and what I was doing - just like 22 November 1963 (JFK's assassination) and 11 September 2001. The latter two were sad days, but not Sunday 20 July 1969. For me, that's the day geology Apollo-program-logo became relevant in a way it hadn't.

At the time I was a rising senior in the Department of Geology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. I spent much of that summer in the 'Burg working on an NSF-funded project that had been secured by my advisor, Dr. Bruce K. Goodwin. I was doing some geologic mapping and other measurements along the James River in the vicinity of Richmond, VA. That work would lead to my seminal (NOT!) B.S. thesis, Jointing and Foliation in the Petersburg Granite near Richmond, Virginia. Richmond sat astride on the fall line, where the 'hard rocks' of the Piedmont met the 'soft' sediments of the coastal plain. But that's another tale.

I spent the latter part of that day - Sunday - in the basement of Bryan Complex, a large men's dormitory on the W & M campus. I was actually in the basement of Dawson Hall, Time-100-influential-photos-neil-armstrong-nasa-man-moon-64one of the five wings of the complex.  Dawson Hall was not only my dormitory (room 323) but its basement also housed part of the Department of Geology, whose labs and classrooms were located in a portion of the basement of Bryan Complex. Made it terribly easy for me to roll out of bed at 7:50 AM to make an 8 AM geology class in the Dawson Hall basement. Sometimes I actually did make it to class.

Televisions were rare on campus in those days, but there was a small B&W TV in the Dawson basement. I can't recall where it came from but on that day we knew what it would be doing: glued to the coverage of the Apollo 11 landing and Neil Armstrong's Moon walk. Like about half the country we tuned it to CBS and Walter Cronkite, fiddling with the rabbit ears to get the best picture possible - grainy, but that's about the best anyone could do a quarter million miles away from a 10-watt transmitter. We placed the TV atop one the cabinets so we could all see it. One of the taller guys was assigned the task of adjusting the rabbit ears to keep the picture from drifting away. 

A bunch of us waited anxiously for Armstrong's Moon walk, which occurred about 10:30 PM Eastern time. The crowd was not that large - maybe 20-25 or so, mostly geology majors and assorted denizens of the Bryan Complex. At the time of the walk most of the crowd were males although I do recall a few women. We had a lot of women in the small geology degree program, but in those days W&M had a curfew for women - by 10 PM Sunday they should have been in their dorms. But that night, all bets were off.

We cheered when Armstrong walked.

I recall thinking that Apollo 11 would be a game-changer. Up until then, the space program was more about astronomy, engineering and physics than geology and rightly so. Even the ultimate mission was a remarkable feat of engineering. But geology was significant, because one of the main elements of that mission and future lunar excursions was to bring back rocks and ascertain the presence of water, moonquakes, etc.  Study of Moon rocks would provide great insight into Earth, the Moon, our solar system, and beyond.

The Apollo program and its legacy turned out to be so much more than I imagined.

But on 20 July 1969 it was great to be an Earth scientist.

It still is.

Can't wait for a lunar return trip and one to Mars. Hope I will be around.

"Ten years ago the moon was an inspiration to poets and an opportunity for lovers. Ten years fro now it will be just another airport." - Emmanuel G. Mesthene

Posted on Saturday, 20 July 2019 at 02:04 PM in Amazing!, Events, My Talks and Papers | | Comments (0)

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Friday, 19 July 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 13 - 19 July 2019

From , now Director of in Raleigh. Glad I'm in western Oregon this weekend. 

D_3TKM7WwAAz8uPEnjoy!

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I have started a new daily water newsletter focused on the Southwest US: . I used Jim Tully's great My Water Daily platform. I have approximated the Southwest by using a 500-mile (maximum allowed) radius circle centered on Farmington, NM. It samples the news in that area. For the other ones I have created - Pacific Northwest Water () and Northeast Water () - I have used 500-mile radius circles centered on Boise, ID, and New York, NY, respectively  The  Texas, California, and Florida water dailies are created by Jim himself. The   Weekly samples a region within 300 miles of Eugene, OR. I did not create it. 

The links below represent the week's water news as represented by my Tweets. I do not pretend that this survey is a comprehensive survey of the water news; it's my attempt to keep my readers informed to the best of my ability and available time.

Scroll down to 'Positions Open' and 'Previous Weeks' Positions Open' to see the jobs. All my individual job Tweets are archived at #JobWaWi. Previous weekly summaries are archived at:  #WaWiNews or click here.

Top Thirty (More or Less)
From FMSO's 'OE Watch': Moscow Plans to Expand Canal System Between Caspian and Azov Seas

In : Warming Climate Intensifies Summer Drought in Parts of U.S.

From via Another Ontario First Nation declares a state of emergency over water

From , now Director of in Raleigh. Glad I'm in western Oregon....

From : Sea Level Rise Could Double Erosion Rates of Southern California Coastal Cliffs

By from : Climate Point 19 July 2019. This week: The big heat and how to cool down for the next 30 years

From Top Water Stories Week of 8 - 12 July

Books, Films, and Reviews
Looks great! From : 'Water Resources: Science & Society' by George Hornberger () & Debra Perrone () (tnx )


Bottled Water, Beer, Drinking Water/TapWater, and Flint Water Crisis
In All Montana schools would have to regularly test water for lead under health department rules via

By in : New York State proposes new drinking water standards for 3 chemicals cc:

Bullshit and Crap Detection
"Who says you can’t earn a living wage teaching? If you pick up 4 classes here and 2 at the local community college, you’ll make almost $15K." -

"Please tell the grad students to leave the leftovers from the talk for the adjuncts. They’ll hope someone does the same for them someday." -

California
'Incentivizing Groundwater Recharge: A Symposium', 10 September 2019, 8:30 AM- 5:30 PM

In : Lake Tahoe fills to the top as massive winter snows melt

From : Sea Level Rise Could Double Erosion Rates of Southern California Coastal Cliffs

From : Calendar of California Water Events

Canada

Climate, Climate Change, and Meteorology
Via : How Long Does a 15-Year Drought Last? On the Correlation of Rare Events (tnx & )

CRS Stormy Sunday Twofer: 1) 'Tropical Storm Barry - and Additional Storm-Related Resources'; 2) 'Forecasting Hurricanes - Role of the '

ICIWaRM & Publication: 'Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) - Collaborative Water Resources Planning for an Uncertain Future'

Conferences,Webinars, Workshops and Calls for Abstracts/Paper
Joint conference: and Chinese Academy of Sciences: 'Water Security: New Technologies, Strategies, Policies and Institutions', Beijing, 16-18 September 2019. .

All set! Got my Chinese visa in 8 days! Meet experts headlining at our International Conference in Beijing! John Tracy Liuyan Liu Anjun Pan Jun Xia Academy of Sciences

Conflict, Cooperation, and Security

Disasters: Droughts, Floods, Wildfires and More
In via : Chennai water crisis: How 'great' teamwork, muddy data enabled poor management and engineered a disaster

In : Barry's rainfall sets record in Arkansas via

In : Warming Climate Intensifies Summer Drought in Parts of U.S.

Daily Water Newsletters
California Water Daily
The Daily 19 July 2019 News, Information,Jobs & More!

The Daily 15 July 2019 News, Information,Jobs & More!

The Daily 13 July 2019 News, Information,Jobs & More!

Florida Water Daily
The Daily 19 July 2019. News,Info,Jobs, RFPs

The Daily 16 July 2019. News,Info,Jobs, RFPs, More!

The Daily 13 July 2019. News,Info,Jobs, RFPs, More!

Northeast Water Daily
The Daily 19 July 2019

Pacific Northwest Water Daily
The Daily 19 July 2019 News,Info,Jobs

Southwest Water Daily
It's 19 July 2019. Southwestern US Water News, Informastion, Jobs & More!

It's 18 July 2019. Southwestern US Water News, Informastion, Jobs & More!

It's 17 July 2019. Southwestern US Water News, Informastion, Jobs & More!

Texas Water Daily
The Daily 19 July 2019. TX News, Info, Jobs & More

Education, Events, and Opportunities
From This Day in Water History 19 July. 1911: Home-Made Sanitary Drinking Cup and New York’s Filtration Plant and Park

From This Day in Water History 18 July. 1911: Death by Cholera in the U.S.; 1908: Irrigating the Nile Valley

From This Day in Water History 17 July. 1913: Water Purification at Erie, PA

From This Day in Water History 16 July. 1914: Acquisition of the East Jersey Water Company

From This Day in Water History 15 July. 916: Death of Elie Metchnikoff

From This Day in Water History 14 July. 1954: Death of Dr. S.J. Crumbine

From This Day in Water History 13 July. 1916: Philadelphia Required to Use Lead Pipes and Polio Connection to Clean Streets

E-Newsletters and E-Newspapers
From 19 July 2019. Friday Notes - Technology's Giant Leaps - From Space Shots to Agricultural Innovations

The 18 July 2019 Trending Technology - Questions - Documents - Knowledge Exchange - Featured Jobs - Events Articles

From Buzz Newsletter - 19 July 2019. The Latest Earth and Space Science News!

From Nature Briefimg 19 July 2019. Learn that protests have shut down 13 observatories on Mauna Kea,discover that a deep-learning algorithm has taught itself to solve a Rubik’s cube,hear how researchers recover when disaster destroys everything

From . Nature Briefing 18 Jul 2019. New president of European Commission call for carbon-neutral Europe by 2050,how Brazil’s scientists are recovering from destruction of the National Museum, how the space station uncovered thunderstorm mystery

Ethics, Gender, Indigenous People, Rights
From via Another Ontario First Nation declares a state of emergency over water

In : Study links Florida Keys’ coral demise to mainland runoff via cc:

Groundwater and Hydrogeology
In via : Report: Pollutants increase in Snake River Aquifer

From : Texas Groundwater Summit - 20-22 August. Keynotes Announced & Regular Registration Ending!

Hydrofracking, Shale Gas, and Energy

NE Water
By in : New York State proposes new drinking water standards for 3 chemicals cc:

From : U.S. Hurricane Season Is Unnecessarily Dangerous President Trump’s $19 billion relief bill continues a pattern of after-the-fact repairs.

Personal, People, Interviews, and Quotes
"Who says you can’t earn a living wage teaching? If you pick up 4 classes here and 2 at the local community college, you’ll make almost $15K." -

In What One Scientist Learned in 50 Years of Studying the Earth’s Climate

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - Will Rogers

"We wanted the best possible, but it turned out the way it always does." – Russian saying

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." - Bill Watterson (quoted in via )

All set! Got my Chinese visa in 8 days! Meet experts headlining at our International Conference in Beijing! John Tracy Liuyan Liu Anjun Pan Jun Xia Academy of Sciences

"Please tell the grad students to leave the leftovers from the talk for the adjuncts. They’ll hope someone does the same for them someday." -

"All monkeys cannot hang on the same branch." ~ Kenyan proverb

"In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession."- Marshall McLuhan (quoted in via )

PNW Water
In : Yakima Basin irrigation water woes continue

In via : Report: Pollutants increase in Snake River Aquifer

In : Palouse aquifer group seeking long-term plan to meet water needs

In via : Bill in Congress would protect Olympic National Forest rivers

Policy, Planning, Law, Governance, Economics, IWRM, and Management
ICIWaRM & Publication: 'Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) - Collaborative Water Resources Planning for an Uncertain Future'

Positions Open  
Josh's Water Jobs and More! 17 July 2019

Check out jobs @ 's Water Resources Graduate Program 

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For the latest  Employment opportunities visit  

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Positions:  - Various locations and types: enviro science, geology, engineering, restoration, etc. 

Positions:  - Various positions across the USA. Updated regularly.  

Current Positions:  (New York City & environs) - Various. 

Positions (many):  - Various locations and duties.  

Previous Weeks' Positions Open    
Josh's Water Jobs & More! 11 July 2019

Josh's Water Jobs and More! 2 July 2019

Previous Weekly Water Summaries - Go To #WaWiNews
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 13 - 19 July 2019

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TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 29 June - 5 July 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 22 - 28 June 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 15 - 21 June 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 8 - 14 June 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 1- 7 June 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 25 - 31 May 2019

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TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 11 - 17 May 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 4 - 10 May 2019

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 27 April - 3 May 2019

Reports, Publications, and Journals
ICIWaRM & Publication: 'Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) - Collaborative Water Resources Planning for an Uncertain Future'

CRS Stormy Sunday Twofer: 1) 'Tropical Storm Barry - and Additional Storm-Related Resources'; 2) 'Forecasting Hurricanes - Role of the '

Paper: 'Waking a Sleeping Giant: Realizing the Potential of Groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa'

Science, Medicine, Health, and Technology
From : The Search for the Impact That Cratered Ancient Scotland

From Buzz Newsletter - 19 July 2019. The Latest Earth and Space Science News!

Streams, Wetlands, Dams, Lakes, and Ecosystems
From FMSO's 'OE Watch': Moscow Plans to Expand Canal System Between Caspian and Azov Seas

In via : Bill in Congress would protect Olympic National Forest rivers

In via : Report: Pollutants increase in Snake River Aquifer


Texas   #txwater
From Texas Ag Law Blog Weekly Round Up - 19 July 2019

From : Texas Groundwater Summit - 20-22 August. Keynotes Announced & Regular Registration Ending!

Visuals, Audios, and Infographics
From , now Director of in Raleigh. Glad I'm in western Oregon....

Water/Land Quality and Contamination

Water Supply, Quantity, Reuse, Conservation, Infrastructure
In : Yakima Basin irrigation water woes continue

In : Palouse aquifer group seeking long-term plan to meet water needs

WTF?
From , now Director of in Raleigh. Glad I'm in western Oregon....

"HR says you can’t fire a staff member for not showing up to work until you have given at least three warnings and developed a plan for corrective action. Also, they have to actually be physically present to receive the warnings."-

Posted on Friday, 19 July 2019 at 08:33 PM | | Comments (0)

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Thursday, 18 July 2019

From FMSO OE Watch: Moscow Plans to Expand Canal System Between Caspian and Azov Seas

Who knew? A canal system linking the Caspian Sea with the outside world! I found this article in the July 2019 issue of the OE Watch (Operational Environment Watch) published by the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO). The original article by Paul Goble was published in the 26 March 2019 issue of the Eurasia Daily Monitor - click here.

OE Watch Commentary: Russia surprised many lastyear when it used its internal canal system to shift military vessels from the Caspian Sea to the Sea of Azov to ramp up pressure on Ukraine. In fact, river and canal traffic has always played an enormous role in Russian history and Moscow’s plans. Now, the Russian government has announced a new project to expand its internal transit links between these two bodies of water, both for security reasons and to expand east–west trade in a way that will  compete with the rail systems of China and the West. Building a new, larger canal system across the North

Caucasus has been on Moscow’s agenda on and off since at least 1932; but Volga-Don-Canal its security interests, budgetary stringencies and geo-economic goals make it more likely to be carried out now. Moscow has shifted its main Caspian Flotilla naval base away from Astrakhan in the north, down to Kaspiysk, on the outskirts of the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala, where it is in a position to more readily project power around the Caspian. The prospect of a new canal between the Caspian and the Sea of Azov is real enough that it has sparked competition between Dagestan and Kalmykia over its proposed route.

Currently, water connections between the two seas are limited to the Lenin Volga–Don Shipping Canal, opened in 1952. Part of what Moscow calls the Unified Deep-Water System of European Russia, this canal is too shallow and has too many locks to be useful for large-scale trade or the shifting of larger military vessels. To compensate for that, the Soviet government began construction of a deeper canal alongside it in the1980s, but that project died with the Soviet Union. However, in the early 2000s, Moscow again brought up the idea of a canal, albeit in a different location and far deeper and with fewer locks, in order to project power and to compete with alternative east–west projects being promoted by China, Europe and the United States.

This project was christened the Eurasia Canal. If built, it would be 700 kilometers long, four times the length of the Suez Canal and eight times that of the Panama Canal. It would be 6.5 meters deep, have few locks, and would be capable of carrying over 75 million tons of cargo yearly. If completed, this would transform the geo-economics and thus geopolitics of the region.

Caspian

For years now, many had assumed that it was going nowhere fast given its potentially enormous price tag (various figures have been suggested and all have been rising), the absence of outside investors given Western sanctions, and competing transportation projects through Azerbaijan and Georgia. But a year and a half ago, Moscow adopted a new “Strategy for the Development of Russian Ports in the Caspian Basin,” which called for the building of new port facilities on the Caspian, developing rail and road links to them, and also building a canal to the Sea of Azov via the route Moscow had been talking about three decades before.

That development appears to reflect the convergence of three things: First, China has indicated that it is interested in investing in such ports and a canal. Second, Moscow’s experience last year with moving naval vessels from the Caspian to the Azov Sea has brought the Russian defense ministry in on the side of such construction, transforming it from an economic project to one with national security implications. And third, Moscow is concerned that progress in the development of east–west rail, highway and pipeline projects passing from the Caspian through Azerbaijan and Georgia—and potentially across Armenia, given the recent shift in government there—could undercut its influence in the region, something Russia is not prepared to tolerate.

Such behind-the-scenes calculations have now surfaced largely because officials in Dagestan and Kalmykia are in open competition for the location of the new commercial port on the Caspian and hence on the route of a canal westward. Dagestan appears to have the inside track: it already has a large commercial port (Makhachkala) and a rapidly expanding military one (Kaspiysk) as well. Consequently, building a new commercial port and linking it to a new canal system would seem to be the most advantageous choice. But the situation is not nearly as clear-cut; and Kalmyk officials are now arguing that they should be given the port and the money it would bring because Moscow is already subsidizing Dagestan via the development of the naval port there. Given the security risks, they say, Kalmykia is a better choice.

Competition between the two North Caucasus republics may in fact slow the canal project down, even if China comes in with the money to finance this gigantic enterprise. But it is worth watching because of how these competing arguments shed light on Moscow’s thinking about the ports and the canal as well as about its intentions in the region and more broadly. End OE Watch Commentary (Goble)

Enjoy!

"We wanted the best possible, but it turned out the way it always does." – Russian saying

Posted on Thursday, 18 July 2019 at 06:39 PM in CRS, FMSO & GAO Reports, World Water | | Comments (0)

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Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Josh's Water Jobs and More! 17 July 2019

Josh_logoJosh is back this week!

This week's water jobs:

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1) Josh's Jobs

Highlighted:

1) Portfolio Manager (International Waters) – Global Environment Facility (GEF)(Nairobi): 22 August

2) African Union citizens: Ground Water Desk Officer – African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW)(Nigeria): 31 July

Minimum experience level requested:

0-2 years

3) Junior Professional Officer – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)(Various): 9 September

4) Science Writer – Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)(India): 20 July

5) Local recruitment: Project Assistant (Economics of Climate Adaptation Facility) – UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)(Germany): 28 July

6) Communications Officer – International Hydropower Association (IHA)(London): Until filled

7) Digital Marketing Officer – International Hydropower Association (IHA)(London): Until filled

8) Scientific Data Analyst – Cooperative Institute of Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)(Ann Arbor, MI, USA): 8 August

9) Data & Analytics Manager – League of Conservation Voters(Washington, DC): 29 July

10) Conservation Coordinator (US Virgin Islands) – The Nature Conservancy (TNC)(St Croix, VI, USA): 31 July

11) Policy Advocate – ClimatePlan(Sacramento, CA, USA): 30 July

12) Wetlands Biologist – Ecology and Environment(Houston, TX, USA): Until filled

3-4 years

13) German speakers: Strategy Analyst (Climate Risk and Resilience) – The Nature Conservancy (TNC)(Berlin): 9 August

14) Governance and Institutions Analyst (Livelihoods) – International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)(Kathmandu): 20 July

15) Junior Professional Officer to support Climate Education and Youth Empowerment – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)(Germany): 9 August

16) Local recruitment: Project Associate (Climate Adaptation and EbA Expert) – UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)(Germany): 28 July

17) Uganda nationals: Water Management Specialist – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)(Uganda): 26 July

18) Local recruitment: Environmental Engineer (Risk Management) – The World Bank(Rwanda): 24 July

19) Wetlands Biologist – Ecology and Environment(Various, USA): Until filled

20) Outreach and Advocacy Specialist – Blue Water Baltimore(Baltimore, MD, USA): Until filled

21) Manager of Community-Based Restoration – Anacostia Watershed Society(Washington, DC): 29 July

22) Water Resources Associate or Manager – Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC)(Chicago, IL, USA): Until filled

5-7 years

23) Team Leader (NRM, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction) – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)(Laos): 24 July

24) Irrigation and Drainage Specialist – The World Bank(Washington, DC): 26 July

25) Spanish speakers: Director Public Policy & Government Relations (LAR countries) – The Nature Conservancy (TNC)(Latin America): 5 September

26) German speakers: Leiter (m/w/d) des Projekts im Globalvorhaben Nachhaltige Fischerei und Aquakultur – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Cambodia): 1 August

27) Spanish speakers: Program/Project Manager – The Nature Conservancy (TNC)(Argentina): 29 July

10+ years

28) Project Manager – Bremen Overseas Research & Development Association (BORDA)(India): 28 July

29) Vice President (Programs & Strategy) – US Water Alliance(Oakland, CA, USA): Until filled30) Vietnam nationals: National Programme Specialist for Environment, Bio-diversity, Water and Soil Resources Management – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)(Vietnam): 31 July

31) Bangladesh nationals: National Climate Change and Risk Management Specialist – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)(Dhaka): 27 July

Not specified:

32) Development worker as Advisor (m/f/d) to support flood and drought management – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Cambodia): 11 August

33) Research Fellow (Climate and Governance) – Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)(Stockholm): 7 August

34) German speakers: Berater (m/w/d) Wasserressourcenmanagement – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Jordan): 29 July

35) German and French speakers: Berater (w/m/d) Unterstützung der internationalen NDC-Partnerschaft – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Germany): 28 July

36) Australia nationals: Environmental Water Coordinator – Victorian Environmental Water Holder (VEWH)(Australia): 23 July

37) Community Engagement Support Officer – Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA)(United Kingdom): 23 July

38) DevOps Specialist – Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)(Victoria, BC, Canada): Until filled

39) Outreach Manager (Texas Living Waters) – National Wildlife Federation(Austin, TX, USA): Until filled

40) Green Amendment Coordinator – Delaware Riverkeeper Network(Bristol, PA, USA): 30 August

41) Communications Manager – Climate Action Campaign(San Diego, CA, USA): Until filled

42) VALUABLES Consortium Research Assistant – Resources for the Future (RFF)(Washington, DC): Until filled

Not specified (academic):

  • Professors/lecturers

43) Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies – Amherst College(Amherst, MA, USA): Until filled

44) German speakers: Professorship (W3) in the field of Water Infrastructure Management – Technische Universität Hamburg(Germany): 30 August

45) Research Professor or Associate Research Professor in Hydrogeology – Geological Survey of Finland (GTK)(Finland): 30 August

46) Assistant/Associate Professors in Water Supply Engineering – University of Oulu(Finland): 22 August

  • Postdocs

47) Hydroclimate Scientist (Postdoc) – Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)(Victoria, BC, Canada): Until filled

48) Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecological Modelling – Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)(Switzerland): 31 August

49) Post-doctoral position in Environmental Flows – Environment and Climate Change Canada(Fredericton, NB, Canada): 30 September

50) Postdoc Position: Water Security in Cities – Tecnológico de Monterrey(Mexico): 2 August

51) Postdoc (Geosciences, Environmental Sciences or Economic Geography) – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences(Germany): 19 July

52) Postdoc in Adaptive Investment Pathways for Nature-based Water Storage Solutions in Semi-arid Africa – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education(Netherlands): 25 July

  • Researchers/other

53) Applied Aquatic Ecologist with specialization in Water Quality, Monitoring and Assessment of Surface Waters – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education(Netherlands): 2 September

54) Canada Research Chairs Faculty Positions (Tier 2) – École de technologie supérieure(Montreal, QC, Canada): 24 August

55) Natural Capital Research Fellow (Wakehurst, West Sussex) – Royal Botanic Gardens (KEW)(United Kingdom): 21 July

WASH:

0-2 years

56) Ethiopia nationals: WASH Officer – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)(Ethiopia): 22 July

5-7 years

57) French speakers: Global WASH Advisor – Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)(Calgary, AB, Canada): Until filled

58) Hindi speakers: WASH Technical Coordinator – Sarathi Development Foundation(India): 20 July

8-9 years

59) Senior Global WASH Advisor – Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)(Calgary, AB, Canada): Until filled

Not specified

60) WASH Project Manager – Solidarités International(Nigeria): Until filled

61) Digital Project Officer (WASHwatch) – WaterAid(United Kingdom): 11 August

62) Project Officer – WaterAid(United Kingdom): 29 July

63) Programme Development Advisor – WaterAid(London): 11 August

64) French speakers: Responsable Programme Anthropologie/EHA(F/H) – Solidarités International(Central African Republic): Until filled

65) Portuguese speakers: Project Manager – Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)(Mozambique): 25 July

66) Female Ethiopia nationals: WASH Technical Officer – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)(Ethiopia): 20 July

Consultancies:

67) Community of Practice and Knowledge Management Consultant (WASH) – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)(New York): 21 July

68) Technical Support and FSM Support to the Scaling Up Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Advisory Service & Analytics – The World Bank(Washington, DC): 5 August

69) Regional Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist (Multiple positions, roster) – Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)(Home-Based): 7 August

70) Irrigation Engineer – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)(Rome): 26 July

71) Spanish speakers: Consultancy: Climate, Land, Energy and Water (CLEWS) Expert – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)(New York): 20 July

72) French speakers: Consultant: Climate Risk Assessment Specialist – United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)(Home-Based): 19 July

73) Expansion of Flood Forecasting Functionality of the Operation Decision Support System (ODSS) to selected River Basin Catchments in the Central Region of Malawi – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)(Malawi): 25 July

74) Short-term Consultancy: Peatland and Environmental Management Expert – International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)(Russia): 11 August

75) Consultant: Menstrual Hygiene Management Trainers (Multiple positions, roster)- Institute of Development Support (IDS)(India): 19 July

76) Bahasa Indonesian speakers: Consultant: Hydrologist/Environmental Specialist – Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)(Indonesia): 24 July

77) Ghana nationals: Business Manager (CapVal Project) – International Water Management Institute (IWMI)(Ghana): 25 July

Internships:

78) Internship (Hydropower Development) – International Hydropower Association (IHA)(London): 2 August

79) German speakers: Praktikant (m/w/d) im Sektorvorhaben Klima - Anpassung an den Klimawandel – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Germany): 21 July

80) Internship at Water and Sanitation Unit – Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)(South Korea): 22 July

81) German speakers: Praktikant (m/w/d) für Kommunikation zur Internationalen Grüne Woche – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Germany): 22 July

82) German speakers: Praktikant (m/w/d) im Nachhaltigkeits- und Umweltmanagement – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Germany): 30 July

83) French speakers: Intern (m/f/d) in Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)(Germany): 30 July

Scholarships:

84) Two PhD Candidates Responsibility Arrangements in Resilience Policy for Climate Adaptation – Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)(Netherlands): 18 September

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2) Additional Jobs from WaterWired

85) Position: (Ontario) - Project Manager – Watershed Management. Closes: 24 July

86) Position: (Washington, DC) - Jefferson Science Fellowship. App due: 31 October

87) Position: Grande Ronde Model Watershed (La Grande, OR) - Executive Director. Closes 22 July. Download Executive_Director_Position
 
88) Position: (Embassy - Ottawa, ON, Canada) - ESTH Environment, Water & Fisheries Specialist. Closes: 24 July. (tnx )
 
89) Postdoctoral Position: (Monterrey, MX) - Water Security in Cities. Closes: 2 August
 
90) Position: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Mission, OR) - Hydrogeologist. OUF.   Download Hydrologist  
 
91) Position: Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council (Dexter, OR) - Youth Education Coordinator (0.5 FTE). Closes: 18 July.
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92) Position: (Green Bay, WI) - Assistant Professor - Environmental Engineering. Applications due: 31 July
 
93) Position: Oregon Natural Desert Association (Bend, OR) - Policy Manager. Closes: 1 August. Download ONDA_Policy_Manager_2019  
 
94) Postdoctoral Position: (Irvine, CA) - Water Resources Policy (Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy). Closes: 14 August
 
 
 
97) Position: Oregon WRD (Salem, OR) - Civil Engineering Specialist 1 - Dam Safety. Closes: 26 July
 
98) Position: (Beaverton, OR) - Assistant Project Manager, Water Engineer-in-Training.
 
98) Position: Black Canyon Irrigation District (Notus, ID) - Assistant Manager.
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99) Position: Ada County Highway District (Boise, ID) - Stormwater Quality Specialist. Closes: 24 July
 
100) Position: Joint with Middle Deschutes Watershed Council (0.6 FTE)/Jefferson County SWCD (0.4 FTE) (Redmond, OR). OUF; Apps due: 28 July  
Download MiddleDeschutes_WC Dual_Job_Announcement

For our full list of active water jobs, please visit www.joshswaterjobs.com/jobs.

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AGU Career Center for research/academic jobs

GoodWorkCanada - Canada's Green Jobs Site

Congressional Research Service Positions 

Check out  - Vacancies in aid, development, humanitarian & nonprofit sector (volunteers, consultants or F-T employment) 

UN Jobs in Water Resources

UN Jobs in Water Management

UN Jobs in Water and Sanitation

Global Water Jobs

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Academic Jobs Online

Higher Education Job Site

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State of Washington Careers

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OSU Water Resources Program

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Academic Jobs in Schools of Physical/Earth Sciences

Mac's List - Jobs in Portland and Beyond!

New Zealand Hydrological Society Jobs Board

California Water Jobs 

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Association of Oregon Counties Job Postings

Soil Science Societies Career Center

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Posted on Wednesday, 17 July 2019 at 12:17 PM in Josh Newton's Water Jobs & More!, Opportunities & Positions, World Water | | Comments (0)

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Tuesday, 16 July 2019

UNESCO and ICIWaRM Publication: 'Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) - Collaborative Water Resources Planning for an Uncertain Future'

CRIDA1UNESCO and ICIWaRM (International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management) are proud to present this seminal publication:

Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA): Collaborative Water Resources Planning for an Uncertain Future

Authors:
Guillermo Mendoza (US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources, USACE IWR • Ad Jeuken (Deltares) • John H. Matthews (Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, AGWA) • Eugene Stakhiv (USACE IWR) • John Kucharski (USACE IWR) • Kristin Gilroy (TRACTABEL - ENGIE GROUP)

Contributors:
Will Logan (International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management, ICIWaRM) • Koen Verbist (UNESCO IHP) • Patrick Ray (University of Cincinnati) • Casey Brown (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) • Marjolijn Haasnoot (Deltares) • Rutger van der Brugge (Deltares) • Rolf Olsen (USACE IWR) • Jennifer Olszewski (USACE IWR) 

Download CRIDA_June_2018

Check out more CRIDA resources here.

Foreword
Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros
Director of the Water Sciences Division
Secretary of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) UNESCO

Over the last decade, climate change is accelerating and is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting livelihoods, particularly through the impact on water and water-related hazards. For each degree of global warming, an additional 4 percent of the global land area will face a water resources decrease of more than 30 percent. The impact of water-related hazards is also felt more in developing than in developed countries, both in terms of economical and human losses, reinforcing inequality and poverty.

Adequate planning for water resources management is therefore at the heart of disaster risk reduction, as defined by the Sendai Framework, and has been also integrated in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Paris Agreement highlights the importance of averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, and the role of sustainable development in reducing the risk of loss and damage. Comprehensive risk assessment and management is specifically proposed as a mechanism to address these challenges. The agreement also requests the UN agencies to support their Member States in order to enhance action on adaptation, highlighting adequate planning for policy making, as well as the identification of adaptation strategies.

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Although global assessments of climate change impact can provide a rough indication of trends and expected impacts, the local conditions define how vulnerable the communities are to these water security threats. Adaptation to this climate stress is therefore a local process that requires the design of tailored solutions.

In this context, the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme presents therefore the Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA). This approach provides a crucial framework to enable water managers and policy makers to assess the impact of climate uncertainty and change on their water resources and work towards effective adaptation strategies.

This multi-step process embraces a participatory, bottom-up approach to identify water security hazards, and is sensitive to indigenous and gender-related water vulnerabilities. By engaging local communities in the design of the analysis, the information provided by scientific modeling and climate analysis can be tailored and thus provide more useful answers to the challenges they are facing. They are also providing a more informed starting point to assess the different options for adaptation, and design robust adaptation pathways, in line with the local needs.

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The CRIDA approach advocates hereby to move away from the “one size fits all” approach, and to pursue locally embedded solutions to the specific threats to water insecurity due to climate and other global changes. Therefore, this reference document is also an invitation to become part of a global water community that engages with the local stakeholders to identify their water security vulnerabilities, and to support their capacities to address their water management challenges under climate change

Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros
Director of the Water Sciences Division
Secretary of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) UNESCO

 

Foreword

by Will Logan, Director of ICIWaRM

Of all the sub-disciplines related to water science and policy, Water Resources Management is surely one of the most challenging. From hydrometeorology to surface water hydrology, from agricultural engineering to groundwater flow and transport, and from ecohydrology to aqueous chemistry—the water professional is inevitably faced with poorly constrained parameters, incomplete datasets, oversimplified models, and the need for “just one more sampling point.”

But water resources management takes all that, and adds the exasperating human element—institutions and infrastructure, policies and politics, demographics and demagogues, cooperation and conflict. The hard science and engineering run up against the soft science and culture. And as the water management truism states, “the soft parts are hard.” The hard parts are not so easy either.

Every situation is different, and integrated water resources management has distinct meanings in different political and cultural environments. It may mean elimination of waterborne diseases and poverty reduction in regions lacking safe drinking water and sanitation, or interannual water storage mechanisms to “flatten out the hydrograph.” Or it may emphasize ecosystem restoration and recreational opportunities in a society that has solved most of its basic health and safety challenges, and where most of the “hard” infrastructure was built out decades earlier.

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But sound management of water resources in the face of uncertainty is important in any context. The 2017 US Global Water Strategy recognized sound water management as one of four interconnected strategic objectives—with safe drinking water/sanitation/hygiene, cooperation on shared waters and strong governance, financing, and institutions. And developing methodologies to help humans and rivers to coexist may be our moral imperative as well. As the UN High-Level Expert Panel on Water and Disaster said back in 2007, “National and international hydrological institutes must... identify underlying analytical and data requirements to meet climate changes that are likely to be highly uncertain and so as to support structural and non-structural measures for disaster risk deduction.”

However, this may be easier said than done. Climate scientists may provide thousands of scenarios about possible future climates that lead to wide ranges of future hydrologic conditions. For example, climate projections used in the International Upper Great Lakes Study to recommend lake regulation protocols between the US and Canada showed that lake levels—a key planning parameter—could go either higher or lower in the future. Further complicating this uncertainty are demographic and land- use changes, as well as active stakeholder groups advocating for their interests under potentially water-insecure conditions. Water planners and managers need guidance that helps them move away from what we do not know about the future to what we do know. In other words, it may not be known what future flow will result from a 100-year return period storm event, but it may be easier to estimate the annual expected damages that will likely be unacceptable in 2050. Is this a possible paradigm shift that can help decision making under deep uncertainty?

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The goal of Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis, or CRIDA, is to help address this conundrum. By integrating hydrologic and climate science with systems modeling, economics, stakeholder collaboration, risk informed decision making and flexible pathways forward, CRIDA can help the water resources planner to navigate through an uncertain world toward imperfect but robust and socially acceptable solutions. Which is all we can ask of them.

No single institution can provide all the answers all of the time. The International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM), under the auspices of UNESCO, is one of many institutes and centers worldwide that are integrating new ideas into tried-and-true water planning and management approaches. We are especially grateful to our colleagues from other UNESCO “category 2” centers, such as IHE-Delft (The Netherlands), ICHARM (Japan), CAZALAC (Chile) and ICWRGC (Germany), who have freely shared their ideas and feedback. Our relationships with the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), Deltares, Rijkswaterstaat, The World Bank, and UNESCO IHP have been particularly fruitful.

We are also grateful to CRIDA’s authors, contributors and reviewers as well as to those who have provided support for them.

In conclusion, I am delighted that ICIWaRM, in partnership with UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme, has the privilege of co-publishing this important advance in water resources management and planning. I look forward in the coming years to seeing the CRIDA approach applied, tested, adapted, extended and perhaps occasionally stretched too far in a wide variety of human and natural environments around the world.

Enjoy!

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Posted on Tuesday, 16 July 2019 at 06:53 PM in Climate Change, Climate & Meteorology, Policy, Planning, Governance, IWRM & Management, Readings, Journals, Videos, Films & Visuals, World Water | | Comments (0)

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