Emily Green has once again treated us to an excellent review of the water world for the past week. Her timing is excellent, as I am at wit's end reviewing a galley proof of one of my papers. So I can now be entertained by a real live journalist.
Emily cautioned me to take Prozac before reading.
First, here are three things you won't find in Emily's post:
1) Dr. Thomas Harter's detailed notes from the recent Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture conference, and his blog,Random Groundwater Notes.
2) David Zetland reviews James Powell's excellent Dead Pool. I did a three-part review of this book about 18 months ago beginning on 2 January 2009, then5 January 2009 and 8 January 2009. This book is a must for all WaterWonks, espcecially those in the Southwest USA.
3) The shale-gas drilling documentary Gasland is on HBO tonight. See it.
Emily's post this week is a humdinger - lots of stuff on oil and floods. Sounds like disaster week - floods in China, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and France, plus high flood insurance bills in California.
Tough week for BP CEO Tony Hayward. He had to testify before those nasty Congressmen and Congresswomen, then his yacht finished fourth in its group. Bummer, man, hope you get your life back soon!
And there is one more CEO who wants her life back - Pat Mulroy of SNWA. Pat, once hailed as a hero, now finds her agency treated just like any other Nevada entity (except the big casinos, of course). But the Nevada Sureme Court actually gave her a treat, ruling that SNWA does not have to refile applications for water rights in eastern Nevada. So that's sort of good news, certainly compared to what Hayward's been hearing.
The photo is by Green, from Spring Valley, NV.
And, if things are not bad enough, the flow in the river formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is no longer strong enough to keep the sea at bay. Maybe Tony Hayward should try yachting there.
Read Emily's post.
And it's nice to note the drought is over. Now, where's that Prozac?
“Our board basically said, if there’s no reason for restrictions, why are you going to ask people to conserve?” — Charles Hardy, a spokesman for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, “Water crisis over? Everywhere in the Bay Area but Santa Clara County,” Mercury News, June 16, 2010
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