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Water, 7(10) - October 2015: Special Issues and Lots More! (Open Access)

Happy Halloween!

Now available! Water, Volume 7, Issue 10 (October 2015), Pages 5203-5875.

All articles are freely downloadable. If you cannot download the articles here, visit the issue's WWW site.

Special Issues. You'll note there are several 'Special Issues' in this issue, some with just one or a few papers and some of which have appeared before. Water has many special issues in progress at any given time. What happens is that when a special issue paper is accepted, it immediately goes into the next online issue of Water. If you click on the special issue title, it should take you to all the current papers in that special issue. 

Enjoy!

Table of Contents

 

Special Issue Microbial Impacts on Water Resources: From Contamination to Remediation

Article: Microbiological Confinement of Two Adjacent Water Wells in Lake Karla Basin, Greece     Supplementary Files
by Konstantinos Ar. Kormas, Alexandra Meziti and Theodoti Papadimitriou
Water 2015, 7(10), 5272-5283; doi:10.3390/w7105272

Article: Effects of Seasonal Thermal Stratification on the Functional Diversity and Composition of the Microbial Community in a Drinking Water Reservoir
by Xiao Yang, Tinglin Huang and Haihan Zhang
Water 2015, 7(10), 5525-5546; doi:10.3390/w7105525

 

Special Issue Sustainable Water Management and Decision Making under limited Data Availability

Article: Optimizing Water Allocation under Uncertain System Conditions in Alfeios River Basin (Greece), Part A: Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Model with Deterministic Boundary Intervals
by Eleni Bekri, Markus Disse and Panayotis Yannopoulos
Water 2015, 7(10), 5305-5344; doi:10.3390/w7105305

 

Special Issue Hydro-Ecological Modeling

Article: Catchment-Scale Modeling of Nitrogen Dynamics in a Temperate Forested Watershed, Oregon. An Interdisciplinary Communication Strategy
by Kellie Vaché, Lutz Breuer, Julia Jones and Phil Sollins
Water 2015, 7(10), 5345-5377; doi:10.3390/w7105345

 

Special Issue Recent Advances in Riverflow Research

Article: Effect of Submergence and Apron Length on Spillway Scour: Case Study
by Seungho Hong, Celio Biering, Terry W. Sturm, Kwang Seok Yoon and Juan A. Gonzalez-Castro
Water 2015, 7(10), 5378-5395; doi:10.3390/w7105378

Article: Assessing the Performance of In-Stream Restoration Projects Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Transponders
by Bruce MacVicar, Margot Chapuis, Emma Buckrell and André Roy
Water 2015, 7(10), 5566-5591; doi:10.3390/w7105566

 

Special Issue Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Large Asian River Basins

Article: Water-Energy-Food Nexus within the Framework of International Water Law
by Antti Belinskij
Water 2015, 7(10), 5396-5415; doi:10.3390/w7105396

Article: Water-Energy-Food Nexus in a Transboundary River Basin: The Case of Tonle Sap Lake, Mekong River Basin  Supplementary Files
by Marko Keskinen, Paradis Someth, Aura Salmivaara and Matti Kummu
Water 2015, 7(10), 5416-5436; doi:10.3390/w7105416

Article: Methods of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
by Aiko Endo, Kimberly Burnett, Pedcris M. Orencio, Terukazu Kumazawa, Christopher A. Wada, Akira Ishii, Izumi Tsurita and Makoto Taniguchi
Water 2015, 7(10), 5806-5830; doi:10.3390/w7105806

 

Special Issue Water Resources Management: Innovation and Challenges in a Changing World

Article: Understanding Groundwater Storage Changes and Recharge in Rajasthan, India through Remote Sensing
by Pennan Chinnasamy, Basant Maheshwari and Sanmugam Prathapar
Water 2015, 7(10), 5547-5565; doi:10.3390/w7105547

 

Special Issue Impact of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms—Unifying Principles and New Paradigms

Editorial: Impact of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms—Unifying Principles and New Paradigms
by Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Mike Thorndyke and Sam Dupont
Water 2015, 7(10), 5592-5598; doi:10.3390/w7105592

 

Special Issue Water Resource Variability and Climate Change

Article: Runoff and Sediment Yield Variations in Response to Precipitation Changes: A Case Study of Xichuan Watershed in the Loess Plateau, China
by Tianhong Li and Yuan Gao
Water 2015, 7(10), 5638-5656; doi:10.3390/w7105638

Article: Optimal Choice of Soil Hydraulic Parameters for Simulating the Unsaturated Flow: A Case Study on the Island of Miyakojima, Japan
by Ken Okamoto, Kazuhito Sakai, Shinya Nakamura, Hiroyuki Cho, Tamotsu Nakandakari and Shota Ootani
Water 2015, 7(10), 5676-5688; doi:10.3390/w7105676

Article: MODIS-Derived Spatiotemporal Changes of Major Lake Surface Areas in Arid Xinjiang, China, 2000–2014
by Qingting Li, Linlin Lu, Cuizhen Wang, Yingkui Li, Yue Sui and Huadong Guo
Water 2015, 7(10), 5731-5751; doi:10.3390/w7105731

Article: Water Discharge and Sediment Load Changes in China: Change Patterns, Causes, and Implications
by Chong Jiang, Linbo Zhang, Daiqing Li and Fen Li
Water 2015, 7(10), 5849-5875; doi:10.3390/w7105849

 

Special Issue Water Resources Assessment and Management in Drylands

Article: Quantification of Environmental Flow Requirements to Support Ecosystem Services of Oasis Areas: A Case Study in Tarim Basin, Northwest China
by Jie Xue, Dongwei Gui, Ying Zhao, Jiaqiang Lei, Xinlong Feng, Fanjiang Zeng, Jie Zhou and Donglei Mao
Water 2015, 7(10), 5657-5675; doi:10.3390/w7105657

 

Special Issue Watershed Protection and Management

Article: Modeling Water-Quality Loads to the Reservoirs of the Upper Trinity River Basin, Texas, USA
by Taesoo Lee, Xiuying Wang, Michael White, Pushpa Tuppad, Raghavan Srinivasan, Balaji Narasimhan and Darrel Andrews
Water 2015, 7(10), 5689-5704; doi:10.3390/w7105689

 

Special Issue Geospatial Modeling of River Systems

Article: Numerical Simulation of Groundwater Flow in a River Valley Basin in Jilin Urban Area, China
by Shuwei Qiu, Xiujuan Liang, Changlai Xiao, He Huang, Zhang Fang and Fengchao Lv
Water 2015, 7(10), 5768-5787; doi:10.3390/w7105768

 

Special Issue Hydrologic System Analysis, Patterns, and Predictions for Arid and Semi-arid Environment

Article: Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Water Table and Vegetation Status of a Deserted Area
by Limin Duan, Tingxi Liu, Xixi Wang and Yanyun Luo
Water 2015, 7(10), 5788-5805; doi:10.3390/w7105788

 

Further Publications

Article: Estimation of Transport Trajectory and Residence Time in Large River–Lake Systems: Application to Poyang Lake (China) Using a Combined Model Approach
by Yunliang Li and Jing Yao
Water 2015, 7(10), 5203-5223; doi:10.3390/w7105203

Article: Can the Adoption of Desalination Technology Lead to Aquifer Preservation? A Case Study of a Sociotechnical Water System in Baja California Sur, Mexico
by Jamie McEvoy
Water 2015, 7(10), 5224-5238; doi:10.3390/w7105224

Article: Application of a 3D Layer Integrated Numerical Model of Flow and Sediment Transport Processes to a Reservoir
by Shervin Faghihirad, Binliang Lin and Roger Alexander Falconer
Water 2015, 7(10), 5239-5257; doi:10.3390/w7105239

Article: Applying a System Dynamics Approach for Modeling Groundwater Dynamics to Depletion under Different Economical and Climate Change Scenarios
by Hamid Balali and Davide Viaggi
Water 2015, 7(10), 5258-5271; doi:10.3390/w7105258

Article: Empirical Formulas for Calculation of Negative Pressure Difference in Vacuum Pipelines
by Marek Kalenik
Water 2015, 7(10), 5284-5304; doi:10.3390/w7105284

Article: Sustainable Supply of Safe Drinking Water for Underserved Households in Kenya: Investigating the Viability of Decentralized Solutions
by Pauline Chepchirchir Cherunya, Christine Janezic and Michael Leuchner
Water 2015, 7(10), 5437-5457; doi:10.3390/w7105437

Article: Assessing Nonstationary Spatial Patterns of Extreme Droughts from Long-Term High-Resolution Observational Dataset on a Semiarid Basin (Spain)
by Sandra G. Garcia Galiano, Patricia Olmos Gimenez and Juan Diego Giraldo-Osorio
Water 2015, 7(10), 5458-5473; doi:10.3390/w7105458

Article: Using the SPEI to Assess Recent Climate Change in the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin, South Tibet
by Binquan Li, Wei Zhou, Yaoyang Zhao, Qin Ju, Zhongbo Yu, Zhongmin Liang and Kumud Acharya
Water 2015, 7(10), 5474-5486; doi:10.3390/w7105474

Article: A Modified van Genuchten-Mualem Model of Hydraulic Conductivity in Korean Residual Soils
by Seboong Oh, Yun Ki Kim and Jun-Woo Kim
Water 2015, 7(10), 5487-5502; doi:10.3390/w7105487

Article: Conditional Order-m Efficiency of Wastewater Treatment Plants: The Role of Environmental Factors
by Ramón Fuentes, Teresa Torregrosa and Enrique Ballenilla
Water 2015, 7(10), 5503-5524; doi:10.3390/w7105503

Article: Towards A New Decision Support System for Design, Management and Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases Emission
by Donatella Caniani, Giovanni Esposito, Riccardo Gori and Giorgio Mannina
Water 2015, 7(10), 5599-5616; doi:10.3390/w7105599

Article: Bayesian Network Modeling to Improve Water Pricing Practices in Northwest China
by Yusuyunjiang Mamitimin, Til Feike and Reiner Doluschitz
Water 2015, 7(10), 5617-5637; doi:10.3390/w7105617

Article: Mitigating the Risk of Extreme Water Scarcity and Dependency: The Case of Jordan
by Joep F. Schyns, Arwa Hamaideh, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Mesfin M. Mekonnen and Marlou Schyns
Water 2015, 7(10), 5705-5730; doi:10.3390/w7105705

 

Article: Assessment of the Impact of New Investments on Flood Hazard-Study Case: The Bridge on the Warta River near Wronki
by Tomasz Dysarz, Joanna Wicher-Dysarz and Mariusz Sojka
Water 2015, 7(10), 5752-5767; doi:10.3390/w7105752

Article: Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Dike Erosion due to a Wave Impact
by Stefania Evangelista
Water 2015, 7(10), 5831-5848; doi:10.3390/w7105831

 

 

Enjoy!

 

From ghoulies and ghosties / And long-leggedy beasties / And things that go bump in the night, / Good Lord, deliver us! - Scottish poem

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 24 - 30 October 2015

Big weekend here in the USA. It's Halloween tomorrow and on 1 November @ 2 AM many of us will have to switch from daylight saving time to standard time. So we'll 'gain' an hour of sleep Saturday night.

If you don't turn your clock back you'll be an hour early (right?) for your Sunday meeting, or in my case, my Sunday flight to Baltimore for the Geological Society of America meeting.

And speaking of geology, here are a few 'Halloween-themed' maps from the USGS. You might have to enlarge them (click on the image) to see what I mean.

Enjoy!

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User's Guide - if you are new to this summary: each of the items here is a Tweet from my WaterWired Twitter account for the week ending today, arranged by category. It is not a comprehensive summary of the week's water news; it is my summary. 

To access a story, click on the link beginning with 'http://', 'is.gd', or 'bit.ly' (usually). Clicking on a link beginning with '@' will take you to that person's Twitter account;  clicking on a link beginning with '#' (hashtag) will take you to a Twitter list containing Tweets about a particular topic. Some items may not have a hot link to a story, which is fine - it may have been just an informational item or a personal message to someone. Or, I may have screwed up and forgotten the link!

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Scroll down to '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.

Terrific Twenty + Three
Map: @UCDavis maps farmland that can 'bank' groundwater during El Niño rains @KPCC http://bit.ly/1R3T7H1   View this photo 

Water, 7(10) - October 2015: Special Issues and Lots More! (Open Access) http://bit.ly/1kh6KYA 

@usbr Report: 'Technical Evaluation of the Gold King Mine Incident' http://bit.ly/1Ru3weW 

Yes! @bconantcwn & @CanadianWater: The science that's fundamental to every other science - hydrology http://ow.ly/TLtIs  @AQUARIUSinfo

@TDSIanJames in @MyDesert: Pipe water from Mojave Desert aquifer, sell to #cawater districts? Yep. #cadrought http://desert.sn/1hZ1vv0 

RT @POLISWater Primer Released: 'Resilience in a Watershed Governance Context' http://goo.gl/LnMlGI 

Via @bconantcwn: @SnowHydro on Canadian science in the post-#Harper era http://bit.ly/1WcFbB9  #scipolicy #cdnpoli

Catch up! Read the weekly geoscience & enviro-science news with Elaine Hanford's Bulletin Boards! http://bit.ly/1MdWIxD  #EJHBB

@bradplumer in @voxdotcom: Hurricane Patricia: Why a record storm did surprisingly little damage http://bit.ly/1H4DVDU 

Wow! In 1963, Dr. Charlotte Froese taught first Computer Science classes @UBC http://ow.ly/TRktZ  #UBC100  View this photo

@waltonwater in @circleofblue: Wisconsin Groundwater Dispute Is Warning Signal for Eastern US http://tinyurl.com/p8f67eu  tnx @GabrielEckstein

From @Sammy_Roth & @MyDesert: 'The Current' Water & Energy news. http://bit.ly/1ihFw2C  #cawater

@AWRAHQ honors Oregon Water Resources Department http://bit.ly/1GvBxLA  via @BCWaterNews

@CanadianWater The Droplet Interview: Dream Team behind Mackenzie River Basin Agreements http://bit.ly/1OYxwCa   View this photo

@USGS Looking for places to trick-or-treat? Here are two suggestions...
View this photo   View this photo

RT @AGU_Eos Scientists discover what’s really decimating the cod fishery http://ow.ly/U2txi  @wildweatherdan   View this photo

@AGU_Eos Buzz Newsletter - 30 Oct 2015 - the latest Earth and Space Science news http://bit.ly/1NdHI8q 

@BrockUniversity WEPGN Report: 'Resilience in a Watershed Governance Context: A Primer' http://bit.ly/1PRYXO9  cc: @GWPnews @AWRAHQ

Via @UNFCCC 10 things we learned from the @UN’s top climate official @CFigueres via her @reddit_AMA http://goo.gl/JHWcvW  #COP21 #INDCs

RT @NatureNews: Week in science: Hurricane Patricia pounds Mexico, telescope shuttered in Hawaii and more http://ow.ly/TZmg4 

From @USGS: Track Water Quality of the Nation's Rivers and Streams http://bit.ly/1imnAUo   View this photo

Via @kirkenglehardt UCLA researchers estimate only 20% of people who cite papers actually read them http://ow.ly/U1f5J  #scicomm

Do You Know 'How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse'? Read This Paper! http://bit.ly/1N8yPNl 
 

Books, Films, and Reviews
From @OPBnews Long-lost 1950s @idfg 'Beaver Parachuting' film from Idaho. Beaver segment starts about 7 min. https://youtu.be/APLz2bTprMA 

Nice little (5 min) film from @americanrivers: 'Flint' - the Georgia river, not the city in Michigan. https://youtu.be/Wuhm8mHdx_4 

RT @CoyoteGulch The Great Divide" documentary focuses on importance of water http://bit.ly/1MvnEzk  via @CCDR_news #COWaterPlan

 

Bottled Water, Drinking Water/TapWater, and Source Water Protection
@CBCnews: Bad water: Innovative solution for remote northern Ontario First Nations http://bit.ly/1k7ym2c  (via @WaterPortal)

 

Bullshit and Crap Detection
@EricHolthaus in @Slate No, climate change won't make the Persian Gulf 'uninhabitable'. http://slate.me/1WkIL6Y  (tnx @jfleck)

@drvox in @voxdotcom: The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee http://bit.ly/1P1cAZB  (tnx @Tuff_Cookie)
 

California
@jfleck EVENT: @UCDavisWater Water Science & Policy Communications Workshop feat. @MavensNotebook 3 Nov, Davis,CA ​http://bit.ly/MavenOnMedia 

@mercnews California's Owens Valley #cawater once again flowing to Los Angeles after 6-month stoppage http://bayareane.ws/1M21RNC 

@MavensNotebook Daily Digest: CA lifts restrictions on sr. water rights; Feds must disclose GW well info; More http://bit.ly/1PUIE1W 

@CA_DWR & @CaWaterBoards: @GroundwaterAct Meeting, 5 Nov, Redding, Combined Tech Session & Public Forum: 1-4 PM http://bit.ly/1M02A1O 

@MavensNotebook: The truth be told: The Delta, the tunnels, and the tributaries, part 1 http://bit.ly/1ikafvO  #cawater

@CA_DWR #cawater Plan eNews-28 Oct 2015~Basin Boundaries~SGMA Models~Map Tool~Dlta Pln~Levee Pgm~Climate-Smart~More http://bit.ly/1KGeSqR 

From @Sammy_Roth & @MyDesert: 'The Current' Water & Energy news. http://bit.ly/1ihFw2C  #cawater

@CA_DWR & @CaWaterBoards: @GroundwaterAct Meeting & Webinar, 27 Oct, Sac. Tech Session: 1-4; Public Forum: 6-8 http://bit.ly/1M02A1O 

@MavensNotebook's #cawater Daily Digest: Almond growers join in GW study; Secret water sale broke state law? More http://bit.ly/1S7HwHE 

@TDSIanJames in @MyDesert: Pipe water from Mojave Desert aquifer, sell to #cawater districts? Yep. #cadrought http://desert.sn/1hZ1vv0 

Via @rbalesuc @stuartpalley, With #climatewarming #SierraNevada forests cannot be same. With political will, forest #sustainability possible

RT @TIME: @fema urged Californians to prepare for flooding http://ti.me/1MMzOhq  #caw

Map: @UCDavis maps farmland that can 'bank' groundwater during El Niño rains @KPCC http://bit.ly/1R3T7H1   View this photo

Canada
Via @Can_Limnology 2016 Frank Rigler Award to Bill Taylor @UWaterloo, http://socanlimnol.ca/?p=1170  @CCFFR_CCRP #CCFFR

Via @bconantcwn: @SnowHydro on Canadian science in the post-#Harper era http://bit.ly/1WcFbB9  #scipolicy #cdnpoli

Via @kirkenglehardt How science helped to swing the Canadian election. http://flip.it/MrIkC  @Guardian

RT @GlobalCalgary Alberta government announces $297 million for flood prevention: http://bit.ly/1We3Rnt 

@TimesColonist Les Leyne: Massive job begins with new BC water act http://bit.ly/1jLDRUE  (tnx @AqualityEnv) 

Wow! In 1963, Dr. Charlotte Froese taught first Computer Science classes @UBC http://ow.ly/TRktZ  #UBC100  View this photo

@MargaretAtwood on @drshow now http://bit.ly/1GvsRVJ 

Via @WaterPortal: Elbow River and Calgary flood mitigation projects announced by the Government of Alberta http://bit.ly/1H7SLth 

@CBCnews: Bad water: Innovative solution for remote northern Ontario First Nations http://bit.ly/1k7ym2c  (via @WaterPortal)

@CanadianWater The Droplet Interview: Dream Team behind Mackenzie River Basin Agreements http://bit.ly/1OYxwCa   View this photo

RT @WaterPortal: Another dam on the #PeaceRiver? Plans in motion for site near Dunvegan #abwater http://wtrpr.tl/1HgMgnO 

@BrockUniversity WEPGN Report: 'Resilience in a Watershed Governance Context: A Primer' http://bit.ly/1PRYXO9  cc: @GWPnews @AWRAHQ
 

Climate, Climate Change, Adaptation, and Meteorology
RT @ClimateNexus Developing nations push for tougher target in #climate change talks http://buff.ly/1PJ6Aqb  via @WSJ #COP21

Water Quality in the Era of Climate Change @LinkedIn http://bit.ly/1Nez0Xm  

RT @ClimateNexus Developing nations push for tougher target in #climate change talks http://buff.ly/1PJ6Aqb  via @WSJ #COP21

MT @ClimateCentral Entering time of year when El Niño has noticeable impacts on US weather: http://buff.ly/1Lot9dl 

Via @statesman Texas: downpours done, but light rain to continue http://atxne.ws/1KysJ2v 

@EricHolthaus in @Slate No, climate change won't make the Persian Gulf 'uninhabitable'. http://slate.me/1WkIL6Y  (tnx @jfleck)

RT @LamontEarth New paper: The darkening of the Greenland ice sheet: trends, drivers & projections: http://ow.ly/TOx9h  @EGU_TC

@ScienceDaily Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation, climate http://bit.ly/1k5ggxM 

@TechnologyOrg Evaporation for review - and with it global warming. http://bit.ly/1R9mSWF 

In @terradaily: More rain leads to fewer trees in the African savanna http://bit.ly/1LSjNH0In 

@business Weather on Demand: Making It Rain Is Now a Global Business http://bloom.bg/1WjhjGx 

RT @NASA_EO Land-Facing, Southwest Greenland Ice Sheet Movement Decreasing http://go.nasa.gov/1Wks2jY   View this photo

Via @nytimes This Greenland river is one of a network of thousands at the front line of climate change. http://nyti.ms/1kdGpdR 

MT @qz: @IBM is going to change how we forecast the weather with @IBMWatson http://qz.com/535345 

Via @UNFCCC 10 things we learned from the @UN’s top climate official @CFigueres via her @reddit_AMA http://goo.gl/JHWcvW  #COP21 #INDCs

RT @AGU_Eos Scientists discover what’s really decimating the cod fishery http://ow.ly/U2txi  @wildweatherdan   View this photo

RT @AGU_Eos International scientists team up to study glaciers in the tropical Andes http://ow.ly/TWQEY 

Via @ClimateComms in @nytimes: Catholic Church leaders issue appeal on climate change http://nyti.ms/1R9C71T 

RT @ThePhoenixSun A hotspot for warming, NM's Lesson for forecasters. http://bit.ly/1N5mTfa  by @LauraPaskus in @NMInDepth @sejorg

@bradplumer in @voxdotcom: Hurricane Patricia: Why a record storm did surprisingly little damage http://bit.ly/1H4DVDU 

Conferences, Webinars, Workshops and Calls for Abstracts/Papers
@jfleck EVENT: @UCDavisWater Water Science & Policy Communications Workshop feat. @MavensNotebook 3 Nov, Davis,CA ​http://bit.ly/MavenOnMedia 

2016 @AWRAHQ Spring Specialty Conference: 'Water - Energy - Environment', Anchorage, AK, 25-27 Apr. Abstracts: 1 Dec http://bit.ly/1LxfO4G 

@earthcharter Two more EC+15 webinars in November - 5th & 17th http://bit.ly/1WgsKih 

RT @geosociety Traveling to #GSA2015? Here’s some ground transportation info for getting around Baltimore: http://bit.ly/1Hhmlvu 

 

Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
Via @AndersJagerskog Healing the wounds of conflict through water diplomacy (@TheSource) http://bit.ly/1Lu1f1Z 

Tnx @jfleck: Paper: 'How science makes environmental controversies worse' http://bit.ly/1Kzyi0q  (free PDF)

@waltonwater in @circleofblue: Wisconsin Groundwater Dispute Is Warning Signal for Eastern US http://tinyurl.com/p8f67eu  tnx @GabrielEckstein

@CanadianWater The Droplet Interview: Dream Team behind Mackenzie River Basin Agreements http://bit.ly/1OYxwCa   View this photo
 

Droughts, Floods, Fires, and Disasters
@ClimateCentral Sea level rise on display for Charleston. http://buff.ly/1MjhM5Y  What it means for rest of US  View this photo

Via @afreedma: Video from @NOAA_HurrHunter as it flew into Hurricane Patricia & found record-breaking intensity http://on.mash.to/1LUKjmB 

RT @FoxNews Storms flood roads, cause train derailment in Texas http://fxn.ws/1MKVsmd  #txwater

Why does El Nino cause drought in some places and floods in others? New @columbiawater research: http://bit.ly/1kMHZnx 

World Ocean Observatory: 'Water Consciousness in a Global Crisis' http://bit.ly/1PQRJc4 

In @csENGINEERmag: Floods in South Carolina set 17 USGS streamgage records http://bit.ly/1S6OVqC 

RT @TIME: @fema urged Californians to prepare for flooding http://ti.me/1MMzOhq  #caw

RT @NOLAnews Flood watches issued for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, coastal Mississippi http://bit.ly/1PKkLLt 

@Sammy_Roth: @Slate Patricia now peaked at 8.3 on 8.0 intensity scale, bound for MX http://slate.me/203HmGy 

@denverpost Review: Gold King Mine spill was preventable, disaster potential not understood http://dpo.st/1PJSxQZ 

Education and Communication
@OSUCEOAS Graduate Student Lauren Smitherman Studies Arsenic in Rural Oregon http://bit.ly/1KGDaks   View this photo

Via @kirkenglehardt in @LSEImpactBlog Why academics & students should take blogging /social media seriously. http://ow.ly/TUs9U  @fp2p

RT @RockefellerFdn: The #Resilience Academy: A Model for Implementing Resilience http://ow.ly/TJB2X 

Via @kirkenglehardt UCLA researchers estimate only 20% of people who cite papers actually read them http://ow.ly/U1f5J  #scicomm

Opportunities-MS & PhD students: @umanitoba: Oceanography & Biogeochem of Arctic Estuarine Systems http://bit.ly/1GvRQrQ  #JobWaWi @CGU_UGC

Via @kirkenglehardt Why open access publishing creates more networking opportunities for young scientists. http://ow.ly/TJtoI  @propicee

PhD Assistantship Opp - Human Dimensions of Dams. @universityofri. App priority: 11 Dec. 'Student Opps' @ http://bit.ly/1H7r6sm  #JobWaWi

E-Newsletters and E-Newspapers
Via @NEMWIUpperMiss: @TulaneWaterLaw TUWaterWays e-newsletter October 27 http://ow.ly/TUNok 

Catch up! Read the weekly geoscience & enviro-science news with Elaine Hanford's Bulletin Boards! http://bit.ly/1MdWIxD  #EJHBB

From @Oregon_Law: @UOENR News & Insight, Fall 2015 - Engaging the Law to Support Sustainability on Earth http://bit.ly/1LypgVB 

@CA_DWR #cawater Plan eNews-28 Oct 2015~Basin Boundaries~SGMA Models~Map Tool~Dlta Pln~Levee Pgm~Climate-Smart~More http://bit.ly/1KGeSqR 

@AGU_Eos Buzz Newsletter - 30 Oct 2015 - the latest Earth and Space Science news http://bit.ly/1NdHI8q 

@IISDRS Natural Resources Policy & Practice - Natural Resources Update - 28 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1KFO4qM 

@geosociety 'The Hydrogeologist' - Hydrogeology Division Newsletter - Fall 2015. http://bit.ly/1KFNitG 

@IISDRS Natural Resources Update - 27 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1WgPMLj 

@TxWRI & @TxIRNR Get latest TX land, #txwater & wildlife news and research – Conservation Matters - October 2015 http://bit.ly/1Xx5u26 

@AWRAHQ Connections Newsletter - October 2015 http://bit.ly/1PNXNTQ 

The @WaterFootprints Daily is out! http://paper.li/WaterFootprints?edition_id=abd37bf0-7af8-11e5-aa0d-0cc47a0d164b … … Stories via @LADWP @waterguru2 @WaterWired

Ethics, Gender, Spirituality, and Rights 
RT @World_Waters @onedrop Interesting article about sanitation-related psychosocial stress for Indian women http://bit.ly/1LTimeN 

Wow! In 1963, Dr. Charlotte Froese taught first Computer Science classes @UBC http://ow.ly/TRktZ  #UBC100  View this photo

Linking the Red Sea to the Dead Sea: is it truly ethical? http://bit.ly/1MpVlSV 
View this photo

Events and Opportunities
J. @AWRAHQ seeks Water Policy & Planning Assoc Editor. Closes: 20 Nov. Scroll to bottom @ http://bit.ly/1PNXNTQ 

Florida
We'll miss you and your wit and wisdom, Tom. Best of luck! @tmtall Flowing in new directions http://bit.ly/1S3ubAc #FLwater

@AWRAHQ Florida Section: Register Today for ShORE 2015 - a FREE Symposium, 6 Nov http://www.daytonastate.edu/shore/  #FLwater  View this photo

Via @BCWaterNews in @MiamiHerald Beyond the high tides, South Florida water is changing http://hrld.us/1Mw55Lm  #FLwater

 

Groundwater and Hydrogeology
Map: @UCDavis maps farmland that can 'bank' groundwater during El Niño rains @KPCC http://bit.ly/1R3T7H1   View this photo

@geosociety 'The Hydrogeologist' - Hydrogeology Division Newsletter - Fall 2015. http://bit.ly/1KFNitG 

@CA_DWR & @CaWaterBoards: @GroundwaterAct Meeting, 5 Nov, Redding, Combined Tech Session & Public Forum: 1-4 PM http://bit.ly/1M02A1O 

@waltonwater in @circleofblue: Wisconsin Groundwater Dispute Is Warning Signal for Eastern US http://tinyurl.com/p8f67eu  tnx @GabrielEckstein

@TDSIanJames in @MyDesert: Pipe water from Mojave Desert aquifer, sell to #cawater districts? Yep. #cadrought http://desert.sn/1hZ1vv0 

Personal, People, Prizes, and Quotes
@AWRAHQ Recognizes Oregon Water Resources Department and @onedrop with IWRM Awards cc: @GWPnews http://bit.ly/1WaOH7A

Via @Can_Limnology 2016 Frank Rigler Award to Bill Taylor @UWaterloo, http://socanlimnol.ca/?p=1170  @CCFFR_CCRP #CCFFR

Congrats! @nativehydro received 'Contributions to Indian Education' Award from @UofA American Indian Alumni!  View this photo

@MargaretAtwood on @drshow now http://bit.ly/1GvsRVJ 

"What an elder sees sitting, the young cannot see standing." - Gustave Flaubert (in @TheWeek)

Awesome! Dr. John C. Tracy, friend & @AWRAHQ President, is @TxWRI's new director! http://bit.ly/1WgNG8V  #txwater

November 2015 @AWRAHQ President’s Message - John C. Tracy http://bit.ly/1WmijPG 

@AWRAHQ honors Oregon Water Resources Department http://bit.ly/1GvBxLA  via @BCWaterNews

Via @UNFCCC: @CFigueres says on @reddit_AMA that her children keep her focused http://bit.ly/1kRPJET  #COP21

@EPA: Leadership shuffle at agency as water Ken Kopocis chief retires http://bit.ly/1kVTXLC 

Policy, Planning, Law, Governance, Economics, IWRM, and Management
By @ShogrenE in @highcountrynews: @JebBush outlines plans to limit federal control of Western lands http://bit.ly/1LUUdVe 

Via @HuffingtonPost Farmers Are Embracing Sustainability -- You Just Aren't Hearing About It http://huff.to/207h71X 

@BrockUniversity WEPGN Report: 'Resilience in a Watershed Governance Context: A Primer' http://bit.ly/1PRYXO9  cc: @GWPnews @AWRAHQ

@BrettEWG “Future Farmer” Sophie Mendelson has a nice piece on @HuffPost about the need for compromise in ag policy http://huff.to/1XC4IAM 
 

Positions Open #JobWaWi 
Joshua Newton's Water Jobs & More - 27 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1H7r6sm 

Positions (6) @GonzagaU (Spokane,WA) - 6 T-T Asst Profs Engr: Civil, Computer, Geotech,Elec. Scroll to (45) http://bit.ly/1H7r6sm  #JobWaWi

Check out @BCWaterNews Jobs. Click 'View Jobs' @ http://bcwaterjobs.com 

Positions: @EcologyWA - Current Openings - Updated 28 October 2015 http://1.usa.gov/1evxlPd  #JobWaWi

Previous Weeks' Positions Open - Go To  #JobWaWi
Then click on 'Top' at #JobWaWi
Joshua Newton's Water Jobs and More! - 20 October 2015 Check out #WASH jobs! http://bit.ly/1PDUz46 

Check out @BCWaterNews Jobs. Click 'View Jobs' @ http://bcwaterjobs.com 

Positions: @EcologyWA - Current Openings - Updated every few days  http://1.usa.gov/1evxlPd  #JobWaWi

 
Previous Weekly Water Summaries - Go To #WaWiNews
Twitter: Click on 'Top' at #WaWiNews
On the WaterWired blog - click here 
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 24 - 30 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1kh5Pr9  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 17 - 23 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1hYCpMR  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 10 - 16 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1VWRBHM  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 3 - 9 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1GAvcJ8  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 26 September - 2 October 2015 http://bit.ly/1OMMs62  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 19 - 25 September 2015 http://bit.ly/1iAkgWh  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 12 - 18 September 2015 http://bit.ly/1V0h7eC  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 5 - 11 September 2015 http://bit.ly/1J41ps5  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 29 August - 4 September 2015 http://bit.ly/1Ng6C7R  #WaWiNews

TGIF Weekly Water News Summary, 22 -28 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1PDpKdn 

TGIF Weekly Water News Summary, 15 - 21 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1KArBfj  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 8 -14 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1PdfBUs  

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 1 - 7 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1hoP8sH  #WaWiNews

 

Reports, Publications, and Journals 
@usbr Report: 'Technical Evaluation of the Gold King Mine Incident' http://bit.ly/1Ru3weW 

Water, 7(10) - October 2015: Special Issues and Lots More! (Open Access) http://bit.ly/1kh6KYA 

Halverson & Fleming Paper: 'Complex Network Theory, Streamflow, and Hydrometric Monitoring System Design' http://bit.ly/1Gplkrh 

Via @kirkenglehardt Why open access publishing creates more networking opportunities for young scientists. http://ow.ly/TJtoI  @propicee

@kirkenglehardt Civil disobedience? Copyright violation? Getting expensive papers free with a hashtag http://ow.ly/TI7x8  @aamnamohdin

J. @AWRAHQ seeks Water Policy & Planning Assoc Editor. Closes: 20 Nov. Scroll to bottom @ http://bit.ly/1PNXNTQ 

@MDPIOpenAccess Water, Volume 7, Issue 10 (October 2015) http://bit.ly/1jUfJPQ 

RT @POLISWater Primer Released: 'Resilience in a Watershed Governance Context' http://goo.gl/LnMlGI 

 

Science, Medicine, and Technology
RT @csmonitor When did life first emerge on Earth? Ancient crystals hold surprising answer. http://trib.al/OkPr7bN 

RT @csmonitor 'Spooky' asteroid to zoom past Earth at 78,000 m.p.h. on Halloween http://trib.al/OaO7pF7 

Yes! @bconantcwn & @CanadianWater: The science that's fundamental to every other science - hydrology http://ow.ly/TLtIs  @AQUARIUSinfo

Via @bconantcwn: @SnowHydro on Canadian science in the post-#Harper era http://bit.ly/1WcFbB9  #scipolicy #cdnpoli

Catch up! Read the weekly geoscience & enviro-science news with Elaine Hanford's Bulletin Boards! http://bit.ly/1MdWIxD  #EJHBB

Via @kirkenglehardt How science helped to swing the Canadian election. http://flip.it/MrIkC  @Guardian

Do You Know 'How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse'? Read This Paper! http://bit.ly/1N8yPNl 

@AGU_Eos Buzz Newsletter - 30 Oct 2015 - the latest Earth and Space Science news http://bit.ly/1NdHI8q 

RT @csmonitor: @NOAA refuses to comply with House science committee subpoena (+video) http://trib.al/Fvf0gvm 

RT @NatureNews: Week in science: Hurricane Patricia pounds Mexico, telescope shuttered in Hawaii and more http://ow.ly/TZmg4 

Streams, Dams, Lakes, and Ecosystems
Halverson & Fleming Paper: 'Complex Network Theory, Streamflow, and Hydrometric Monitoring System Design' http://bit.ly/1Gplkrh 

By @ben_a_goldfarb in @highcountrynews: To save Washington's Yakima Basin fish, just add water. http://bit.ly/1i4WwsS 

@highcountrynews opinion: Why are the feds sticking with a racist name for a Washington lake? http://bit.ly/1OOCFMV 

.@World_Waters MT @GuardianGDP River runs black:pollution from Bangladesh's tanneries – pics http://gu.com/p/4d9a4/stw 

Via @DurangoHerald Proposed federal rule would protect streams near mines http://bit.ly/20cKNKZ 

@freep Great Lakes states guard water — even from neighbors http://on.freep.com/1LZRDd9 

Visuals and Infographics
@World_Waters MT @GuardianGDP River runs black:pollution from Bangladesh's tanneries – pics http://gu.com/p/4d9a4/stw 

WASH and Development
@UNICEF Deputy ED's opinion in @ipsnews: “Sanitation, Water & Hygiene For All” Cannot Wait for 2030 http://bit.ly/1idn6jv 

RT @ClimateNexus Developing nations push for tougher target in #climate change talks http://buff.ly/1PJ6Aqb  via @WSJ #COP21

RT @World_Waters @onedrop Interesting article about sanitation-related psychosocial stress for Indian women http://bit.ly/1LTimeN 

RT @NEPADWater Sudan: Media Report - Military Residues Contaminate Sudan's White Nile http://tinyurl.com/nbur4mk 

RT @NEPADWater Health 'time-bomb' as Yemen runs dry. http://tinyurl.com/oueawde 

Water/Land Quality and Contamination
Via @AqualityEnv from @WTOL11Toledo: Lucas County wants western Lake Erie designated "Impaired" http://goo.gl/alerts/y3D3 

Water Quality in the Era of Climate Change @LinkedIn http://bit.ly/1Nez0Xm 

RT @NEPADWater Sudan: Media Report - Military Residues Contaminate Sudan's White Nile http://tinyurl.com/nbur4mk 

@OSUCEOAS Graduate Student Lauren Smitherman Studies Arsenic in Rural Oregon http://bit.ly/1KGDaks   View this photo

New @USGS Study—U.S. Rivers Show Few Signs of Improvement from Historic Nitrate Increases http://bit.ly/1P7TPUu 

From @USGS: Track Water Quality of the Nation's Rivers and Streams http://bit.ly/1imnAUo   View this photo


Water Supply, Quantity, Reuse, Conservation, Infrastructure
@DeseretNews Utah lawmakers eye reforms for Utah water supplies, delivery. http://bit.ly/1KxkeEI 

Western wildfires threaten water supplies, study finds http://usat.ly/1RVMQhh  via @usatoday

RT @gabe_klein: @dcwater head @GeorgeHawkinsDC has terrific advice for #WMATA to regain the public trust: http://ggwash.org/28485 

WTF?
From @OPBnews Long-lost 1950s @idfg 'Beaver Parachuting' film from Idaho. Beaver segment starts about 7 min. https://youtu.be/APLz2bTprMA 

So 'Wisconsin' is an Algonquian word meaning 'Don’t be stupid about the water'? Okay! http://ow.ly/TUNok 

WTF? RT @jfleck That's right, kids, the United States has not ratified the nuclear test ban treaty. @TomCollina: http://bit.ly/1jOqN0T 

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Brock University WEPGN Report: 'Resilience in a Watershed Governance Context: A Primer'

 From the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance I got this newly-released 30-page report: Resilience in a Watershed Governance Context: A Primer, by Katrina Krievins, Julia Baird, Ryan Plummer, Oliver M. Brandes, Allen Curry, Jack Imhof, Simon Mitchell, Michele-Lee Moore, and Åsa Gerger Swartling. 

From the website:

This primer is a first step in establishing resources that practitioners can turn to when applying resilience thinking to watershed governance. It introduces key ideas associated with resilience and how they may be applied by those engaging in various facets of governance in Canada. Released by Brock University's Water Economics, Policy and Governance Network (WEPGN), the primer is the product of collaboration involving Canadian and international researchers as well as Canadian watershed practitioners.

Download WEPGN_Resilience_Watershed_Governance_Context

Here are the first few paragraphs from the Introduction:

Watersheds are complex systems involving social, economic, and ecological dimensions that are constantly interacting and influencing each other. Often the interactions among the different dimensions in a watershed are unpredictable and uncertainty is inevitable.

Think for a moment about the countless factors that influence water quality in a watershed. The effect of making decisions on any one factor is like a chain reaction. For example, consider how agricultural commodity prices factor into decisions that influence the types of crops grown, animal stocking rates, and general land management practices undertaken by farmers. Those decisions, in turn, will have an impact on the quality of the environment both locally and throughout the watershed. For individuals living downstream, that impact can affect their ability to enjoy the natural environment and to live a healthy life. For fish, poor water quality can be fatal or impair their ability to migrate upstream to spawning habitats. This causes impacts throughout the whole watershed

Watershed governance involves a large and diverse cast of actors — representatives of government, public organizations, researchers, conservationists, communities, etc. Their varied interests and conflicting objectives serve to add to the complexity and difficulty in deciding what is best for the watershed and people.

For some time now, those involved in watershed governance have been aware that watersheds offer a logical and effective framework for tackling land and water management problems. Moreover, many of the concerns and issues being addressed by water resource managers and stewards today are similar to those from the past.

However, growing awareness of the uncertainty confronting watersheds and the dynamic interconnections between watershed dimensions is driving demand for new approaches to watershed governance.

In this time of complexity and change, infusing conventional watershed governance with resilience thinking can help by offering a way to understand and navigate these emerging challenges.

What is Resilience Thinking?

As a concept, resilience thinking is described as the ability of a social-ecological system, such as a watershed and all the components within it, to persist, learn, change, and/or transform in response to a wide range of disturbances without compromising future adaptability. Disturbances can come from outside the system, a heavy rainstorm for instance. Or disturbances can come from within, such as excessive fishing pressure. As well, disturbances may be anticipated, or they may come as a surprise.

Why Resilience, Why Now?

Understanding how to improve the ability of the system – including its ecological, economic, political, and social aspects – to adapt to any disturbance is increasingly acknowledged as important, especially when considering the great deal of uncertainty introduced by a changing climate and shifting social priorities and preferences.

As an emerging approach, resilience thinking can be used to help better understand watersheds as complex, dynamic systems of people and nature, and to assist in navigating different values and interests. Unlike approaches to watershed governance that seek to minimize or control change, a key difference of an approach based on resilience thinking is that it appreciates the value of thinking about complex systems, not in terms of managing against change, but rather, managing for change. 

 The last section:

Final Thoughts - What to Take Away from the Primer

Without a doubt, watersheds are complex social-ecological systems owing to their dynamic nature, the strong interconnections between the social and ecological dimensions, and the large number of diverse actors with a stake in the watershed. The reality of an uncertain and unpredictable future adds to this complexity and renders conventional approaches to watershed governance alone inadequate.

In this primer we have highlighted how infusing resilience thinking into watershed governance holds great promise. Throughout the document, six main attributes of resilience were introduced and discussed as a means of initiating a conversation about applying resilience thinking in a watershed governance context. The idea behind this primer was not to create a how-to guide for creating a resilient watershed. Rather, the primer is a critical first step to get individuals engaged in various aspects of watershed governance thinking about how these concepts might apply in their own watersheds.

We hope that this primer starts a conversation at a range of levels, from local to international; that it inspires watershed stewards, managers, and policy makers to ask questions about how watersheds are currently governed and how the attributes identified here could contribute to a more desirable, resilient system. We invite readers to use the techniques and resources identified in the primer to explore the attributes more fully within their own context.

It will take time to gain more experience with the attributes highlighted in this primer and with applying resilience thinking more broadly. Important further insights will also emerge. We encourage readers to share lessons learned and develop additional resources to provide further guidance to those actively engaged in enhancing the resilience of their watersheds.

 Very helpful.

Enjoy!

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie 

Do You Know 'How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse'? Read This Paper

WaterWonk extraordinaire John Fleck brought this 2004 paper by Daniel Sarewitz to my attention. I had not seen it before, much less read it. Provocative, to say the least. Read for yourself.

'How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse', Environmental Science and Policy, Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 355-434 (October 2004)

Sarewitz's paper was part of a special issue dealing with Bjorn Lomborg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist.

Download Science_SarewitzEnvSciPo

Abstract

I use the example of the 2000 US Presidential election to show that political controversies with technical underpinnings are not resolved by technical means. Then, drawing from examples such as climate change, genetically modified foods, and nuclear waste disposal, I explore the idea that scientific inquiry is inherently and unavoidably subject to becoming politicized in environmental controversies. I discuss three reasons for this. First, science supplies contesting parties with their own bodies of relevant, legitimated facts about nature, chosen in part because they help make sense of, and are made sensible by, particular interests and normative frameworks. Second, competing disciplinary approaches to understanding the scientific bases of an environmental controversy may be causally tied to competing value-based political or ethical positions. The necessity of looking at nature through a variety of disciplinary lenses brings with it a variety of normative lenses, as well. Third, it follows from the foregoing that scientific uncertainty, which so often occupies a central place in environmental controversies, can be understood not as a lack of scientific understanding but as the lack of coherence among competing scientific understandings, amplified by the various political, cultural, and institutional contexts within which science is carried out.

 

In light of these observations, I briefly explore the problem of why some types of political controversies become “scientized” and others do not, and conclude that the value bases of disputes underlying environmental controversies must be fully articulated and adjudicated through political means before science can play an effective role in resolving environmental problems.

John invoked Sarewitz's paper in the context of his excellent blog post about the controversial Cadiz groundwater project in Southern California.  Be sure to read it. Love this quote from John:

The more I learn about groundwater hydrology, the more I realize it is an epistemological task steeped in genuine uncertainties. You can’t really look underground directly, data’s sparse, resulting answers you get are based really importantly on the modeling assumptions you make. And so it is not surprising under any circumstances to have different scientists come up with different answers. You sorta expect it.

I don't recall this from any of my groundwater books or courses. Must've read it somewhere along the line.

 

Enjoy!

“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few. ” – George Berkeley

Joshua Newton's Water Jobs & More - 27 October 2015 (Updated 2 November)

Last one of October! Follow Josh on Twitter: (@joshnewtonH2O).

Josh's and other job notices are archived here. All the jobs I post are archived at Twitter; the hashtag is #JobWaWi.

Dates shown are closing dates unless otherwise indicated. 'None' means no closing date was indicated. 'Soon' means, well...soon!

As more jobs come in I will post them at the bottom (Additional Positions).  

Volunteer Position: J. AWRA seeks Water Policy & Planning Associate Editor. Closes: 20 Nov. Scroll to bottom @ http://bit.ly/1PNXNTQ 

Student Opportunities:

Opportunities - MS & PhD students: @umanitoba: Oceanography & Biogeochemistry of Arctic Estuarine Systems http://bit.ly/1GvRQrQ  #JobWaWi  @CGU_UGC

PhD Research Assistantship - Human Dimensions of Dams @ University of Rhode Island. Priority given to apps received by 11 December. Download PhD_URI_Human_Dimensions_of_Dams

Jobs:

 

1) Bridge Professorship (Water, Health and Security) - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy/Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University (Medford, MA, USA): 30 November

 

2) Economic and Environmental Officer - OSCE (Kyrgyzstan): 10 November

 

3) Rector - UNESCO-IHE (Delft, The Netherlands): 11 November

4) Associate Vice President (Ecosystems - Water) - Environmental Defense Fund (San Franscisco): No deadline provided

5) Program Director - Texas Living Waters (Austin, TX, USA): No deadline provided

6) Resource Efficiency Specialist (China Water Program) - IFC (Beijing): 16 November

 

7) German speakers: Project Manager (Water Risk Filter) - WWF-Germany (Berlin): No deadline provided

8) Corporate Supply Chain Engagement Manager (WWF Mondi Wetlands Programme) - WWF-South Africa (South Africa): 8 November

9) Policy Researcher - WaterAid (London): 15 November

10) Program Officer (Fund Raising) - WSSCC (Geneva): 15 November

11) Staff Writer - WSSCC (Geneva): 30 October

12) Lead Evaluation Officer - World Bank (Washington DC): 4 November


WASH:

13) WASH Officer - IRC (Somalia): No deadline provided

 

14) Senior Advocacy Officer (WASH) - SNV Netherlands Development Organization (Netherlands): 9 November

15) Technical Officer (WASH) - WHO (Geneva): 13 November

16) Project Manager (WASH) - Save the Children (KRI): 15 November

17) Technical Advisor (WASH) - Population Services International (Malawi): No deadline provided

18) WASH Program Manager - Care (Jordan): No deadline provided

19) WASH/Shelter Program Manager - Danish Refugee Council (Iraq): 11 November

20) French speakers: Délégué WASH - Croix-Rouge Française (Haiti): No deadline provided

21) WASH Specialist - Adventist Development and Relief Agency Organization (Philippines): 30 November

22) WASH Specialist - UNICEF (Mali): 16 November

23) WATSAN Technical Lead - American Red Cross (Washington DC): No deadline provided

24) In-Country Research Coordinator (WASH) - Abt Associates (Cape Verde): 27 November

Consultancies:

25) Economy-wide Adaptation to Climate Change - UNDP (Samoa): 29 October

 

26) Baseline Survey of the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Project - Kenya Red Cross (Kenya): 18 November

27) WASH Program Manager - ACTED (South Sudan): No deadline provided

28) Request for proposal for baseline study and designing of a monitoring and evaluation framework for Building Drought Resilience through Land and Water Management Phase 2 Project - IUCN (Kenya/Uganda): 4 November.
Download RFP_Baseline_Study

29) Climate Change Adaptation Consultant - UNDP (Beirut): 3 November

30) Consultancy and Advisory Services - MercyCorps (DRC): 6 November

31) Equity Specialist for the Cambodia Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Programme (CRSHIP) - Plan International (Cambodia): No deadline provided 

Internship:

32) Climate Resilient WASH - WHO (Addis Ababa): 6 November

Other:

33) Advanced online course on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers - UNITAR: 7 November:  Download Flyer_Course_Law_Transboundary_Aquifers

Additional Positions:

 34) Position: @EcologyWA (Union Gap, WA) - Hydrogeologist (entry-level0. Continuous. http://bit.ly/1Xol7J8  #JobWaWi

35) Position: @IWMI_ (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) - Sr Researcher: Ecosystem-based Water Management. Closes: 31 Oct http://bit.ly/1h2Oi50  #JobWaWi

36) Position: Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (Martinez, CA) - Maintenance Planner. Closes: 16 Nov http://bit.ly/1OZ1zbn  #JobWaWi
 

37) Position: @crd_bc (Victoria,BC) - Mgr, Enviro Planning - Core Area Liq Waste Mgmt Plan http://ow.ly/TRfjE  #JobWaWi via @CdnWaterNetwork
 

38) Position: @NCState (Raleigh, NC) - T-T Asst Prof, Water Resources Engineering. OUF; May close after 17 Nov. http://bit.ly/1RyeoIy  #JobWaWi
 

39) Positions (2): @EPA (Cincinnati, OH) - Drinking Water Engineers. OUF. http://bit.ly/1Mfm0eU  #JobWaWi

 

40) Position - Clemson University (Georgetown, SC). T-T Assistant Professor - Landscape Ecologist. Deadline: 1 November
Download Clemson_University _Georgetown_Position

 

41) Positions: @EcologyWA - Current Openings - Updated 28 October 2015 http://1.usa.gov/1evxlPd  #JobWaWi

 

42) Position: UC-Riverside (Riverside, CA) - T-T Asst. Professor, Groundwater Hydrology. OUF; App review: 6 January
Download Groundwater_Hydrologist_Job_Announcement

 

43) Position: @CAPArizona (Phoenix, AZ) - Senior Policy Analyst (Colorado River). Closes: 2 Nov. http://bit.ly/1S9nrRp  #JobWaWi

 

44) Position: @TualatinRiver (Tualatin, OR) - Environmental Education Coordinator. http://bit.ly/20av13f  #JobWaWi

 

Gonzaga University Engineering Faculty Positions:

 

45) Position: @GonzagaU (Spokane, WA) - T-T Asst. Professor, Electrical Engineering (Computer). Closes: 6 Jan http://bit.ly/1Hc0MNT  #JobWaWi

 

46) Position: @GonzagaU (Spokane, WA) - T-T Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering. Closes: 6 Jan 2016 http://bit.ly/1MtHdIg  #JobWaWi

 

47) Position: @GonzagaU (Spokane,WA) - T-T Assistant Professor, Computer Science Closes: 20 Jan http://bit.ly/1Mj3lyY  #JobWaWi

 

48) Position: @GonzagaU (Spokane,WA) - T-T Asst Prof, Engineering (Freshman/Sophomore Education). Closes: 6 Jan http://bit.ly/1GxucLC  #JobWaWi

 

49) Position: @GonzagaU (Spokane,WA) - T-T Asst Prof, Geotechnical Engineering. Closes: 6 Jan http://bit.ly/1PUPu7K  #JobWaWi

 

50) Position: @GonzagaU (Spokane, WA) - T-T Asst Prof, Environmental or Sustainable Engineering. Closes: 6 Jan http://bit.ly/1kSIf4D  #JobWaWi

 

Additional Positions:

 

51) Positions (3): OR DEQ (Portland, OR) - Natural Resource Specialists 4 (Materials Management). Closes: 18 Nov http://bit.ly/1MXQT8d  #JobWaWi

 

52) Position: @UofMaryland (DC area) - T-T Asst Prof, GIScience. OUF; Review: 16 Nov : http://bit.ly/1GPiTy1  #JobWaWi

 

53) Position: UC-Berkeley - T-T Asst/Assoc Professor, Human Geography of the Developing World. Closes: 15 December   Download UCB_Geog_Position 

 

54) Position: @fresH2Otrust (Ashland, OR) - Restoration Project Manager. Closes: 13 Nov http://bit.ly/1SdX38X  #JobWaWi

 

55) Position: @Augustana_IL (Rock Island, IL) T-T Asst Prof,Geography-Human-Environ Interactions. App rev: 9 Nov http://bit.ly/1RiBseO  #JobWaWi

 

56) Position: @binghamtonu (Binghamton, NY) - T-T Asst Prof - Climatology or Geohydrology. OUF; App rev: 30 Nov http://bit.ly/1NM0e6b  #JobWaWi

 

57) Position: OR DEQ (Hillsboro, OR) - Principal Executive/Manager (Technical Services Manager). Continuous. http://bit.ly/1Q6xlnA  #JobWaWi

 

58) Position: OR DEQ (Hillsboro, OR) - Principal Executive/Manager (Air Quality Monitoring Manager). Continuous http://bit.ly/1Hnj6n6  #JobWaWi

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