Another excellent weekly compendium of water world events awaits us once again from the mind of Emily Green.
Yes, it is time for another The Week That Was, 15-21 August 2010.
So what is this a picture of? Looks like something from my old stratigraphy and sedimentation book (remember Krumbein and Sloss?). Emily will tell you its significance. Looks like I should have saved some of those cross sections I drew lo those many years ago.
Sad story from Pakistan - more flood woes. Click here if you want to help.
And something unusual from - where else - the Balkans. In 1992 so many people in Bosnia were being killed and dumped into a lake that the bodies were clogging the culverts at a dam in Serbia. See what happens when you lose a battle in 1389 and can't let it go?
EPA announced that the allowable sediment load into Chesapeake Bay will be between 6.1 and 6.7 billion pounds per year. Whew, that's a relief! Last year it was 8.09 billion pounds. We're making progress!
And, from North Dakota, I learned this tidbit: "... the decision to build large-scale water projects usually is driven by political power rather than economic considerations." Perspicacious folks, those NoDaks!
And speaking of the above, read about the Kern Water Bank. Seems the state got fleeced on that one.
And Penn State says, 'FRAC you," but not to a bunch of spelling-challenged Battlestar Galactica fans. They've now got a Marcellus Shale Center in Happy Valley.
Some more stuff: Las Vegas water; Hershey's syrup and the Gulf spill; watering lawns in LA; North Korea rains; hot Julys; precipitation in SoCal; wastewater treatment.
Emily's always entertaining and informative! Give her a read.
“...stop throwing bodies into the lake because they were clogging up the culverts in the dam.” -- appeal from Serbia to people in Bosnia who were throwing bnodies into a lake (1992)
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