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Monday, 16 May 2022

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 16 May 2022

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Here are Elaine's BBs as PDF and Word documents:

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The articles displayed herein are selected by Dr. Elaine J. Hanford. I do not necessarily agree with the viewpoints expressed and the article descriptions that precede each link.

Geoscience Bulletin Board – 16 May 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

Glacial ice is a metamorphic rock

Landslide buries road outside Lowell Point community near Seward, Alaska

Book Review:  Geopedia – a quirky look at geological topics

Summer vacations to view fossils

Geologic reconnaissance in Val d’Or in Quebec to assess mineral potential

Art exhibit in France focusses on geology of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

Collapse of bridge in Pakistan blamed on glacial lake outburst – but look closely at the poor structural integrity of the bridge before waters wash out footing

Ice jam on Tanana River causes flooding in Manley Hot Springs in Alaska

8 May 2022 Bijie large rockslide in China caught on video

What if the 7.3m 1886 Charleston Earthquake were to happen again today as seismic frequency in the area has increased?

Porphyry copper deposits may be result of failed volcanic eruptions

Levels of atmospheric helium may be rising – new technique used to detect helium

As should be expected, timing of ocean plankton blooms will shift with temperature regime

No surprise here – climate models overestimate future Afro-Asian Monsoon precipitation & runoff

Middle Eocene to early Oligocene pseudo horses were picky eaters

Glaciers affect the stability and short-term eruption cycle of volcanoes

Moderate earthquake and numerous aftershocks beneath Lake Erie could not be conclusively correlated with changes in lake levels and water loading

Successful deep-water test of polymetallic nodule collector vehicle is announced

US Army CRREL Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility continues to respond to challenges of building on permafrost

45 stolen Burgess Shale fossils recovered by Parks Canada - $20,000 fine levied

Better understanding is needed of glacial processes and changes

Shallow-water oceanic model consistent with satellite observations of atmospheric waves produced by underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai – biggest since Krakatoa

Understanding “dead pool”

General Mining Law of 1872 has not changed in 150 years

Deep-sea microbes have special affinity for adhering to plastic debris

Paradigm shift on the origin of ancient fossil nucleosides

Primary fluid inclusions in 830 myo halite from Browne Formation contain organic solids & liquids

NOAA debuts first imagery from GOES-18

Exploring the uppermost layer of the ocean – the surface of the sea

Ice shards in clouds over Antarctica allow more solar energy transmission to Earth surface

New metric for quantifying amount of waste rock generated by mining for minerals

Toward new predictive models for wildfire behavior

1.3 byo Martian Nakhlite meteorite had limited exposure to water

Using multiple changes in tooth shape to decipher evolution of Tiger Sharks

This megalodon may have had a toothache

Interaction between sea ice and ice shelves in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula

Mapping heat flow beneath Greenland – mean heat flow of only 44 mW per square meter

The need for research to quantify soil heavy meatal risks surrounding mining areas

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 16 May 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

In memoriam:  80 years since Auschwitz Concentration Camp opened and began exterminations

Analysis of UK government data shows covid vaccines kill more than they save

Calling wildlife a “catastrophic risk” to power grid – what about risks to wildlife from power grid?

Saltwater crocodiles eat a lot of feral hogs in Australia – maybe we need to import a few crocs

WHO says there is “no good evidence” that 4th covid vaccine dose is beneficial

Perspective:  “Grotesque” transgender surgeries should not be called “gender-affirming care” for children

Current covid vaccines do not prevent the virus – death rates of vaxxed are increasing – is a new “better” vaccine needed? – virus continues to mutate, perhaps spurred on by vaxxing – just wait for the next round of draconian mandates to combat “cases”

Debating the pros and cons of private land conservation in Virginia

Perspective:  There is still no evidence that masks work against covid

Asian insects being considered to fight back against invasive Chinese tallow tree in Alabama

20M acres of cropland in US may be contaminated from PFAS-tainted sewage sludge fertilizer

Demands for action with Lake Powell & Lake Mead at record lows – recall that these are 2 man-made reservoirs and human demands for water are high

Will a new “Office of Environmental Justice” solve any problem or just increase government spending?

Efforts to “restore” the Salton Sea could have serious adverse consequences

Certification programs that claim to verify ‘sustainability’ for fashion industry make “greenwashing” easier

Kansas residents question value of proposed $85M Wolf Creek-Blackberry transmission line to export nuclear power to Missouri

Government pushes solar power – but customers do not get fair value for excess power to grid

Mackinac National Park only existed for 20 years (1875-1895) before becoming a State Park

Basing national & global policy on a paltry 64-year record of CO2 measurements atop an active volcano that releases carbon dioxide and model assumptions is myopic

Technological hazard:  Big Tech & Disinformation Governance Board are threats to free speech

New bill in California aims to limit well drilling and over-pumping of groundwater

More EVS and charging stations but many charging stations do not work

What if the 7.3m 1886 Charleston Earthquake were to happen again today? How strong an earthquake would have to be to damage house

Valve failure resulted in sediment contamination of water system at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas

Why $628M contract was cancelled & 400M doses of covid vaccine were destroyed at Emergent Bayview facility in Baltimore, Maryland

Neighbors complain there are too many coyotes in Huntington Beach

Taking OTC ibuprofen with RSA inhibitor can result in acute kidney injury

Taking ibuprofen or other pain-relieving drugs may make back pain a chronic condition

Hometown of Rachel Carson and surrounding area emissions and impacts of closed power plant and shut down zinc smelting facility will be replaced by those from ethane cracking plant

WMO say there is now 50-50 chance that average annual temperature will spike above 1.5-degree Celsius cap outlined by 2015 Paris Agreement – either it will or it won’t

Central America is still ‘recovering’ from 1998 Category 5 Hurricane Mitch

 

Latest financial report on Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant raises total cost to more than $34B – Georgia Power costs only cover 45.7% - cost overruns far exceed original estimated cost of $14B

More than 100,000 overdose deaths in the US in 2021 – up 15% compared to previous year

Cochabamba species leaf beetle – destructive invasive species found at Texas-Mexico Border

OMG! There is a drought so LADWP customers can only water their lawn twice a week – water use in California increased by 15% compared to 2020 – urban use up by 19% to 27%

Underwater cleanup at Lake Tahoe removes more than 25,000 pounds of trash & litter

Great Basin National Park including Lehman Caves National Monument celebrates 100 years

Interpreting the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act – preservation or striking an appropriate balance between environmental interests and economic & social needs

Inflation will mean not only high energy costs but also blackouts over the coming summer

Palo Verde generating station seeking alternative source of cooling water for nuclear plant

Creating jobs through conservation in Montana – even better than the CCC

Will California heed good advice prior to spending beaucoup dollars on water infrastructure?

TVA contemplating switching coal fired power plants to natural gas

A “sustainable” 11-km highway link in Rotterdam intended to ease congestion, includes tunnel beneath Lage Bergse Bos recreational area – solar lighting – original cost estimate of EUR870M

Natural flood management guide published in the UK

“Immunity” fades rapidly after second & third booster doses of covid vaccines

Only 29% of global food harvest directly feed people – other uses increasing

Indigenous people have much to teach us about conservation – Traditional Ecological Knowledge

National Parks rebounding from wildfires

Proposed Flamingo 640 “glampsite” with music venue & helicopter pad would threaten protected wildlife & corridors & road safety near Yucca Valley – flooding, wildfire risk, high winds & dust

Report on sustainably managing groundwater in California during prolonged drought – perhaps it is time for regulators to read this report and take heed to manage demand

4 arrested for arson - 30 small fires deliberately set in drought-stricken Contra Costa County

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 16 May 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford 

US State Department monitoring investigations into deaths at Sandals Emerald Bay Resort

Potential of using offshore wind turbine bases to grow coral reefs

Beach erosion in Ocean City, New Jersey, during weekend storm

Another call for nature-based solutions to coastal flooding, including marshland restoration

Warnings were issued for high rip current risks in coastal Miami-Dade County

Starfish getting stranded along South Carolina coast

Efforts to save critically endangered estuarine pipefish on east coast of South Africa

Citizen science detects vast amounts of micro-plastics in Catalan coastal waters in the Mediterranean

Masts to be removed from WWII ship containing explosives in the Thames Estuary

Concern over Lyngbya or “gumbo algae” growing in Sarasota Bay

California lawmakers once again target trash in Tijuana River Valley that impacts coastal areas

Fauna in Liaodong Bay – video series on Liaohe River Estuary National Nature Reserve

Trying to identify best practices to save endangered Pacific Northwest salmon

HazardAware tool allows quick assessment of true cost to home owners from coastal hazards

Port of Long Beach hopeful that $1.5B rail project will facilitate cargo movement

$25M dike restoration being planned while Plymouth, Massachusetts aims to place 35,600 cubic yards of sand and cobble to 2,000-ft stretch of Long Beach barrier island

Staff of California Coastal Commission recommended denying proposed Poseidon Desalination Plant – subject to flooding, harmful to nearby habitats, seismic risk & higher costs – CCC unanimously rejects the project

Battling plastic pollution washing ashore at National Seashores

Storms help replenish beaches – all part of the long-term natural process

Future of desalination technologies

3 offshore drilling lease sales were cancelled in Alaska & Gulf of Mexico

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/canceled-lease-sales-raise-new-questions-for-offshore-drilling/ar-AAXhDbf

"Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror." - George Carlin

Posted on Monday, 16 May 2022 at 12:50 PM in Blogs, Twitters, WWW sites, e-Newsletters, & Lists, Elaine Hanford's Bulletin Boards, Readings, Journals, Videos, Films & Visuals | | Comments (0)

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Sunday, 15 May 2022

Letter from Colorado: Water Gossip and More!

Rocky-mountain-national-park 2500177A very good friend of mine for 40+ years, a retired water guy, sent me his annual birthday greeting (13 May) and as is his custom, went on about some water and related observations in his home state of Colorado and environs. I asked if I could post them and he agreed. I added the graphics,

We also discussed the merits of Bill Deal and the Rhondels but that discussion is too deep for most of you.

Here goes:

The fearsome local winter for 2022 was a bust. Little snow and sadly deficient in cold.  The northern part of the county was the beneficiary of a Christmas week atmospheric river that dropped nearly 12 inches or water at 10,000 feet, but my part of the county was missed almost entirely.  Then spring arrived early (somewhat of a blessing), but the west wind cam and dust came with it. Snow at 10,000 feet is long gone, and most snow below 11,000 feet is gone.  We accumulated about 9 inches of water from 120 or so inches of snow.  That is maybe 65 percent of normal.  As a friend or mine used to say, maybe also means maybe not.    

Here the dominant water-news topics are Reclamation’s promise to release 500,000 acre-feet of water from Flaming Gorge (Utah/Wyoming) to prop up water levels in Lake Powell, and another scheme to divert groundwater from the great San Luis Valley. Since the announcement of promised water from Flaming Gorge, the forecasted inflows to Lake Powell have declined by 200,000 ace-feet. I once heard a Reno card dealer use the expression using good money to chase bad money; perhaps this applies to Colorado River planning, er, promise making, based on forecasted amounts.   

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Some south Denver metro group, headed up by former governor Owens, wants to pump 20,000 acre-feet of water from the valley (it is a geological wonderland!) and divert it to Castle Rock, CO.  It has all the trappings of rural water transfers to urban areas.  Promises of money, and no depletion, and heaven for all.  Since about 1975 water has been transferred from the Arkansas valley to south metro with the promise of financial mitigation.  The mitigation promise was indeed kept – Colorado opened 6 (maybe 7) prisons out east in Crowley and Kiowa counties.  They hired locally!  When mining jobs declined in my beloved former home state it did the same thing, and turned the rural counties into “prisonville”.  Six prisons there, too. 

With regard to the previous two paragraphs perhaps the dominant water-news issue here and everywhere west of the 100th meridian should be the New Mexico wildfires.  The west is drying up and it (climate-change drought) is taking more than just western landscapes with it.  I have a fond spot in my heart for Las Vegas, NM.  It was there that I was introduced to New Mexico green chilies over eggs.  Gift enough!  The downtown plaza, though, is so New Mexico, and it was there that I first really saw New Mexico for the wonderful place it is. The wildfire is an ecological, but also a cultural disaster.  A centuries old way of life is being burned up.   

Enjoy!

"Never work with an Oscar winner who is shorter than the statue." - writer Larry Gelbart, referring to Dustin Hoffman

Posted on Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 11:17 AM in Current Affairs, People, Readings, Journals, Videos, Films & Visuals, Western USA | | Comments (1)

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Saturday, 14 May 2022

By Ellen Hanak of PPIC via RNRF: 'Sustainably Managing California’s Groundwater in the Midst of a Prolonged Drought'

This brief report 'Sustainably Managing California’s Groundwater in the Midst of a Prolonged Drought' from the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation was delivered remotely by Ellen Hanak on 9 June 2021 and later posted.

Perhaps a bit dated for some readers but not for me. 

I have pasted the entire report below. If some of the links are broken, go here to read the report online. Click on the graphics to enlarge them.

Ellen Hanak, vice president of the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and director of the PPIC Water Policy Center, spoke Staffphoto-hanak at a virtual meeting of the Washington Round Table on Public Policy on June 9, 2021. Her talk was titled, “Sustainably Managing California’s Groundwater in the Midst of a Prolonged Drought.”

Background
The Western region of the United States, west of the 100th meridian, has a drier and more variable climate than the East, as shown in Figure 1. Both of these characteristics are becoming more pronounced as the climate changes, leading to new challenges in water management. California’s climate is extremely variable, and while droughts have always been a recurring feature, climate change is making them more common and more severe compared to historical conditions. Warmer temperatures also make drought management more complex due to increased evaporation, lower soil moisture, and higher water temperatures—which stress many fish species and cause water quality problems (Mount et al. 2018).

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Water management in most Western states has historically been conducted under the assumption that every summer will bring dry weather. California is no exception. Home to the largest agricultural sector in the nation, it has always needed irrigation to grow its crops during the summer months. Water is stored in both surface and undergroundreservoirs for use during summers, as well as in dry years. Stored surface water tends to be used early in droughts, so groundwater proves very valuable as a reserve in multi-year droughts. Hanak explained that it is fine to rely on groundwater during dry years as long as this is done in a sustainable way. In some parts of the state, this has not been the case – even in non-drought years, some areas have either continued to deplete reservoirs or not replenished them sufficiently to maintain stable storage levels in the long-term. This has led to a chronic, serious overdraft problem in some areas.

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

During the last drought, which lasted from 2012 to 2016, this overdraft problem led to the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in 2014. Hanak said that this act was “100 years in the making” – California’s modern water code for surface water was enacted in 1913 and went into effect in 1914. 100 years later, the state enacted comprehensive groundwater legislation. It was the last Western state to implement a statewide groundwater management system.

While SGMA is a state law, it is primarily implemented by local agencies and jurisdictions. Under the act, local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies are formed to manage groundwater and develop and implement Groundwater Sustainability Plans. To ensure that local jurisdictions do this, state agencies can take control over groundwater management in a basin if the act is not being satisfactorily implemented there. Thus far, this motivating factor has been successful. Implementation has been proceeding and jurisdictions are seeking to comply with the new law.

There are about 85 priority basins that have to develop these sustainability plans. They are mostly in agricultural areas, where there is less pressure to sustainably manage groundwater compared to urban areas. (In many urban areas that rely  on groundwater—both in Southern California and Silicon Valley—more intensive local groundwater oversight has been in place for decades.) Deadlines for the development of groundwater sustainability plans are either in 2020 or 2022 depending on how serious the overdraft of groundwater is in the basin. Critically overdrafted basins, which had to submit their plans in 2020, are largely located within the San Joaquin Valley, plus some parts of the Central Coast. After submitting their plan, agencies have 20 years of implementation to achieve groundwater sustainability, but they must also avoid significantly unreasonable, undesirable effects of pumping in the interim. Plans must be updated every five years and include data on the status of their implementation. These are early days in SGMA implementation, but the law is already shifting how water is managed in California.

The San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley is the largest agricultural region in California and “ground zero” for the implementation of the SGMA (Hanak et al. 2019). Hanak said that if you eat fruits and nuts in the US, and even some brands of wine, they likely came from the San Joaquin Valley. While it is a booming agricultural region, it is very dry and relies heavily on bringing surface water in from the northern part of the state, as well as pumping groundwater. There is a large imbalance between supply and demand for water in this region – on average, there is a groundwater overdraft of about 2 million acre-feet per year, accounting for about 11% of net water use in the region. This is causing chronic depletion of groundwater basins that took millennia to fill.

During the last drought, California experienced the consequences of this depletion: dry wells, sinking lands, and reduced groundwater reserves available for use during future droughts. The wells that have gone dry include those used for agriculture but more commonly they are shallow drinking water wells used by residences, an important consideration from an equity perspective. Sinking land is harmful to urban infrastructure but can also be a problem in rural areas, causing damage to roads, bridges, and major water conveyance infrastructure.

Hanak explained that the issue comes down to a simple math problem: attaining balance and sustainability for groundwater either means increasing water supply from other sources, decreasing water use, or (most likely) a combination of both. There is an important economic component to this problem as well. Some solutions are more costly than others; in particular, some methods of supply augmentation like ocean desalinization are very expensive. Ultimately, agriculture is a business, so supply must be managed in a way that is cost effective.

More than 90% of net water use in the San Joaquin Valley is for crop irrigation. For this reason, agriculture is the sector that will require the most adaptation to achieve sustainability. Inflexible cuts to local water use are not preferable because they tend to cause the largest crop revenue losses, diminished farm-related GDP and job losses, and land fallowing. Water trading (both locally within basins and valley-wide) allows water to move to the most productive lands; this could reduce the costs of adjustment by more than 60%. There is also some scope for augmenting supplies cost-effectively, such as through groundwater recharge, which is a process of actively storing water in the ground. Different parts of this region have varied access to surface water, making cooperation very important.

Over-Reliance on Supply Management

Hanak noted that the groundwater sustainability plans that have been submitted so far in the San Joaquin Valley largely do a good job of recognizing the problem of groundwater overdraft in their basin. Agencies had to submit plans for how they will address this problem through supply projects, demand projects, or a combination of both. In these first plans, 47% of the solutions submitted are based on augmenting supply, as shown in Figure 2. This is mainly done by capturing additional flood flows in wet years and recharging groundwater basins. A third of solutions involve shifting water use from one use to another, such as by treating surface water for residential use that was previously used for another purpose. While such solutions can augment the planning area’s supplies, they entail reductions in supplies used by other parties within the region—something not accounted for in the overall planning process.

Only 20% of current proposed solutions utilize demand-management solutions. Hanak said that this number needs to be much higher to achieve groundwater sustainability. There is a reason that demand-management plans are lagging behind where they need to be; demand management is a difficult conversation to have. Over the next twenty years, PPIC research estimates that between 500,000 and 750,000 acres of agricultural land will have to come out of production to achieve groundwater sustainability (Hanak et al. 2019 ). This is 10-15% of irrigated acreage in the region.

People are understandably worried about impacts on local communities and economies as water demand is managed. During the Q&A session, Hanak explained that concerns are not limited to job and revenue losses. Depending on how land is managed, fallowed land could cause increased dust in areas that already have air quality issues. Fallowed land can also create pest and weed problems for neighboring farms. Potential solutions include intermittent fallowing (for instance, only fallowing land in dry years), as well as using land for habitat recovery to benefit endangered species. Using former farmland for utility-scale solar power installations is also an option, but ensuring that this creates benefits for local economies is important. Hanak expressed confidence that as implementation of SGMA proceeds, people will devote increasing attention to implementing demand-management solutions.

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Addressing the Negative Consequences of Groundwater Overdraft

While groundwater sustainability agencies have 20 years to achieve sustainability, they have to do so in a way that will avoid significant undesirable impacts of groundwater depletion. The law is very comprehensive in outlining these undesirable consequences and explicitly dictates that plans need to explain how they will be addressed. The undesirable consequences of groundwater overdraft include:

  • Lowering groundwater levels
  • Reduction of storage
  • Land subsidence
  • Seawater intrusion
  • Surface water depletion
  • Degraded water quality

Options include limiting pumping enough to avoid these problems, or mitigating the effects, for instance by providing alternative water supplies to those whose wells are adversely affected. Mitigation is not always a viable option; some issues can only be addressed by prevention. This could require some basins to attain groundwater sustainability before the end of the 20-year SGMA window.

PPIC reviewed how plans address two of these impacts that are particularly salient in the San Joaquin Valley: the lowering of groundwater levels (which has major implications for shallow drinking water wells) and land subsidence.

Lowering Groundwater Levels

The most immediate impact that arises from lowering groundwater levels is to shallow drinking water wells, which are common in many rural areas. During the last drought, an estimated 2,600 domestic wells went dry, and roughly 150 small community water systems were at risk of shortages. This was one of the major reasons that the SGMA was passed. Some groundwater sustainability plans submitted thus far intend to maintain sufficient water level thresholds to prevent wells from going dry, and some have mitigation plans to drill wells deeper. But plans in some of the areas that experienced the greatest impacts in the last drought have no program to prevent or mitigate dry wells—a considerable planning gap.

Land Subsidence

Many San Joaquin Valley plans also allow for significant land subsidence to continue—in some cases by as much as 10-15 feet over the next 20 years. This is already causing infrastructure damage, including to major water conveyance infrastructure like the California Aqueduct and the Friant-Kern Canal. Subsidence can also cause compaction of the aquifer system that leads to a permanent reduction of groundwater capacity. This phenomenon was also observed during the previous drought. Hanak noted that these basins will probably have to reevaluate how they are addressing land subsidence.

Avoiding Impacts to Surface Water and Ecosystems

One important innovation of the SGMA is that it formally connects groundwater and surface water law. This creates more of an implementation challenge for less overdrafted basins (those that are not “critically overdrafted,” largely in the northern region of the state) because they are more likely to be in an area where groundwater is still closelyconnected to river flow. This means that these basins have to be more careful not to pump too much groundwater during droughts, since pumping can quickly reduce streamflow. This can have ecosystem impacts, including on endangered salmon and steelhead populations in Northern California.

The Current Drought & Short-Term Priorities

California presently is in the second year of another severe drought, the first since the one that prompted the California legislature to pass the SGMA in 2014. Water scarcity makes the supply-demand balancing act much more difficult. Drinking water impacts for rural communities are expected to escalate as more farmers turn to groundwater for irrigation.

The transition to sustainable management of groundwater in California is a long process, but to get off to a strong start and take into account the added challenges of ongoing drought, Hanak closed her presentation by identifying some priorities for the short-term:

  • Address undesirable impacts of groundwater overdraft (including dry rural wells, ecosystem impacts in places with strong surface water-groundwater connections, and land subsidence).
  • Develop strong water accounting frameworks and allocating pumping budgets. This incentivizes careful utilization of the resource, including trading and saving water.
  • Assess smart infrastructure investments. This includes identifying where it makes sense to build new conveyance infrastructure to enable more recharge, expand trading, and allow for the use of surface water reservoirs alongside groundwater.
  • Launch broad-based planning for both water and land. This includes finding the least harmful and most beneficial ways to take land out of agricultural production.
  • Pilot innovative approaches to water trading, groundwater recharge, and land stewardship.

Hanak concluded by noting that efficient, equitable solutions to the multi-faceted challenges of managing groundwater will require increased cooperation among multiple parties, both within and across basins. And while this process is fundamentally one that requires local leadership, the state and federal governments can help with financial and regulatory incentives.

– Stephen Yaeger, RNRF Program Manager

The PowerPoint presentation Hanak used during the round table can be viewed here.

In her presentation, Hanak referenced a list of studies and reports for further reading on this topic. They include the following:

“Droughts in California” (fact sheet, April 2021)

“California’s Latest Drought in 4 Charts” (PPIC blog, May 2021)

“A Review of Groundwater Sustainability Plans in the San Joaquin Valley” (blogseries and public comments submitted to DWR May 2020)

“Water and the Future of the SJ Valley” (report, Feb 2019)

“Managing Drought in a Changing Climate” (report, Sept. 2018)

“Replenishing Groundwater in the SJ Valley” (report, April 2018)

Enjoy!

"I don’t know why faculty complain about the challenges of being a parent while on the tenure track. They should just find a good nanny. That’s what I did!" - @ass_deans

Posted on Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 09:05 PM in Extremes: Droughts, Floods, etc., Groundwater and Hydrogeology, Water Quantity & Availability, Western USA | | Comments (0)

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Friday, 13 May 2022

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 7 - 13 May 2022

Some awesome postcards from the groundwater geek herself, Maria Gibson. She recently formed the nonprofit AmericanAquifers and will use the PCs to get the word out.

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Enjoy!

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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. If a link does not work, paste the URL into your browser.
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Top Twenty-Five (More or Less)
Next week it's #AWRA2022's #WebinarWednesday! William (Bill) Alley & Rosemarie Alley will discuss: 'The Water Recycling Revolution: Tapping into the Future', 18 May 1-2 PM EDT. Be there! tinyurl.com/3xw4xtvr

It's @Water_MDPI Volume 14, Issue 9 (May-1 2022) – 206 articles. mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/9 #scicomm

In @TIME The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels. tinyurl.com/43ccbmt4 #scicomm

Sharon B. Megdal: 'Water Policy Options as Arizona Adapts to a Drier Colorado River: A Perspective' bit.ly/3FHvPqI#SWUSwater

From @AspenJournalism: Heather Sackett was awarded 1st Place in Climate Reporting for her work covering river systems and aridification in the upper Colorado River basin in the @spj_tweets Top of the Rockies contest. Read award-winning series here l8r.it/ZCWq
@scicomm
 
It's @USATODAY Climate Point - 12 May 2022. Las Vegas outlaws 'non-functional' turf, should California follow? Plus: A wildfire costs $65 million in New Mexico and a May heat wave challenges summer temperature records. tinyurl.com/2p9cbvcs #scicomm
 
CRS InFocus Report: '@EPA Water Infrastructure Programs and FY2022 Appropriation bit.ly/3FAOGDQ #water
 
Via @AP: Bodies in Lake Mead recall Las Vegas' organized crime days. tinyurl.com/yc5drde6 #SWUSwater
 
From @pbpost Algae issue needs attack at source, not pretend study tinyurl.com/5cy4p49k #FLwater
 
Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 9 May 2022 #EJHBB bit.ly/3kWrpCY
 
CRS InFocus Report: 'The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - FY2022 Appropriations and Background' bit.ly/3shqfpt #water4climate
 
Lisa's Lovely Lake Lore: 'Ghosts, Ghouls, Crimes of the Lakes; Edmund Fitzgerald Controversy; and Haunted Hydrology' bit.ly/3w5Z7uI
 
From @TucsonStar: Colorado River's water deficit keeps growing, with no end in sight. tinyurl.com/mw69nsyx #SWUSwater
 
In @The_CBH: Hanford mitigation report released. tinyurl.com/2p8zsdw4 #PNWater
 
In @LancasterNews: @SenBobCasey, @USDA
 promise $22.5 million to help farmers reduce runoff to Chesapeake Bay. tinyurl.com/bdz99jt5
 
Via @WYPublicRadio Deep groundwater in Wind River and Bighorn basins could be key for the extractive industry future tinyurl.com/2p98bxpv #groundwater #cowater
 
In @NatGeoTravel: This Canadian river - the Magpie - is now legally a person. It’s not the only one. (tnx @groundwatergeek) tinyurl.com/27fum7s4 #cdnwater

Books, Reviews and Related
This book showed up in my mailbox yesterday, sent by author, Andrea Ballestero 'A History Future History of Water' (published in 2019) Looks interesting. tinyurl.com/2p8a46te 

 
From @egies - can't wait! 'Water Always Wins'. Gies

LauraFrom @LauraPaskus (tnx@granttosterudwx & @jfleck)

 

Bottled Water, Beer, Drinking Water/TapWater

From @KLCCOregon: Thanks to the McKenzie River, Eugene drinking water exceeds quality standards- again! tinyurl.com/mpyh8832

Via @TheTakeawayDrinking Recycled Wastewater Could be Our Future for Water. tinyurl.com/ym5f4p7h #cawater

Hoffa Harbor? From @FoxNews: Lake Mead drought exposes more human remains. tinyurl.com/yh6h75y3 #SWUSwater

From @UCDavisWater: 'Five “F”unctions of the Central Valley Floodplain' tinyurl.com/2p84a38t #cawater

California
In @NewYorker: The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States tinyurl.com/yc6rs5fx #cawater #scicomm

In @presstelegram: Long Beach injection well designed to increase groundwater supply. tinyurl.com/mr3v9vsa #cawater

Via @TheTakeawayDrinking Recycled Wastewater Could be Our Future for Water. tinyurl.com/ym5f4p7h #cawater

From @UCDavisWater: 'Five “F”unctions of the Central Valley Floodplain' tinyurl.com/2p84a38t #cawater

In @Bakersfieldcali: LOIS HENRY (@SJVWater): Local districts pull out of Kern Groundwater Authority. tinyurl.com/3t4r4jt5 #cawater

The @CA_DWR Water News - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/4vcthbc3 #cawater

The @CA_DWR Water News - 12 May 2022 tinyurl.com/4y4c2d2k #cawater

The @CA_DWR Water News - 11 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2s6t8hvv #cawater

The @CA_DWR Water News - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/5t3aawdu #cawater

The @CA_DWR Water News - 9 May 2022. tinyurl.com/mwyrbs7b #cawater

Canada
From @CanadianWater: 'The Droplet' Newsletter - 9 May 2022. Canada’s largest water infrastructure projects; Celebrate with us at the Water’s Next gala!; Policy must accelerate to keep pace with emerging water concerns; More! tinyurl.com/4rn9rnwh #cdnwater

In @NatGeoTravel: This Canadian river - the Magpie - is now legally a person. It’s not the only one. (tnx @groundwatergeek) tinyurl.com/27fum7s4 #cdnwater

Climate, Climate Change, and Meteorology
From @AspenJournalism: Heather Sackett was awarded 1st Place in Climate Reporting for her work covering river systems and aridification in the upper Colorado River basin in the @spj_tweets Top of the Rockies contest. Read award-winning series here l8r.it/ZCWq @scicomm

It's @USATODAY Climate Point - 12 May 2022. Las Vegas outlaws 'non-functional' turf, should California follow? Plus: A wildfire costs $65 million in New Mexico and a May heat wave challenges summer temperature records. tinyurl.com/2p9cbvcs #scicomm

Colorado
From @TucsonStar: Colorado River's water deficit keeps growing, with no end in sight. tinyurl.com/mw69nsyx #SWUSwater

In @TheAspenTimes: Colorado’s stream management planning watered down by agriculture. tinyurl.com/yzha7vcz #cowater

In @NatGeoTravel: This Canadian river - the Magpie - is now legally a person. It’s not the only one. (tnx @groundwatergeek) tinyurl.com/27fum7s4 #cdnwater

Conferences,Webinars, Workshops and Calls for Abstracts/Paper
Next week it's #AWRA2022's #WebinarWednesday! William (Bill) Alley & Rosemarie Alley will discuss: 'The Water Recycling Revolution: Tapping into the Future', 18 May 1-2 PM EDT. Be there! tinyurl.com/3xw4xtvr

It's #AWRA2022! Annual Water Resources Conference Call for Abstracts - Due 16 May! After 13 years we return to the Seattle area, 7-9 November, at the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington. tinyurl.com/5ev4zk8r

Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
Kira Jacobs of EPA: 'How to Develop Innovative Partnerships and Find Funding: 3 Projects to Inspire You! bit.ly/3KPLfdG #globalwater 

It's @thewaterloop podcast #142: 'Two Nations, One Park'. tinyurl.com/u4c84rdf #scicomm

Disasters: Droughts, Floods, Wildfires and More
In @NewYorker: The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States tinyurl.com/yc6rs5fx #cawater #scicomm

From @TucsonStar: Colorado River's water deficit keeps growing, with no end in sight. tinyurl.com/mw69nsyx #SWUSwater

Daily Water Newsletters
California Water News Daily
California Water News Daily - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/yc7w9euh #cawater

California Water News Daily - 12 May 2022. tinyurl.com/hbk8hevc #cawater

California Water News Daily - 11 May 2022. tinyurl.com/4yvwmdd5 #cawater

California Water News Daily - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/8sm7y7m5 #cawater

California Water News Daily - 9 May 2020. tinyurl.com/nhz3bxe9

California Water News Daily - 8 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p8zwvps #cawater

California Water News Daily - 7 May 2022. tinyurl.com/49r76j7v #cawater

Colorado Water New Daily
Colorado Water News Daily - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/mramudte #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 12 May 2022. tinyurl.com/35m7kujc #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 11 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2s3a4rtp #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/s2r99v7m #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 9 May 2022. tinyurl.com/mtvyx4ty #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 8 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p8wfcbr #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 7 May 2022. tinyurl.com/3xhsmasb #cowater

Florida Water News Daily
Florida Water News Daily - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/v7wrbyvr #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 12 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p87xcns #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 11 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p9j4s3c #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/mrxaahpz #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 9 May 2022. tinyurl.com/4mzcn66m #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 8 May 2022. tinyurl.com/58d7t23b #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 7 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2pumpc3c #FLwater

Northeast US Water News Daily
Northeast US Water News Daily - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p84manp #NEWater

Northeast US Water News Daily - 12 May 2022. tinyurl.com/mvy8bp92 #NEWater
 
Northeast US Water News Daily - 11 May 2022. tinyurl.com/yckfc4nc #NEWater
 
Northeast US Water News Daily - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/3cy4ypkj #NEWater
 
Northeast US Water News Daily - 9 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2mbv6dkm #NEWater
 
Northeast US Water News Daily - 8 May 2022. tinyurl.com/bdnmt5c5 #NEWater
 
Northeast US Water News Daily - 7 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p85pzhr #NEWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily
Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/5n6jfcux #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 12 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p84w95y #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 11 May 2022. tinyurl.com/yckwc8p7 #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2p9asc65 #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 9 May 2020. tinyurl.com/5ytxaekz #PNWater

Eugene Water News Weekly - 9 May 2022. tinyurl.com/4nj84vtw #EUGwater

Pacific Nortwest Water News Daily - 8 May 2022. tinyurl.com/57u3t53a #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 7 May 2022. tinyurl.com/3myvuevb #PNWater

Southwest US Water News Daily
Southwest US Water News Daily - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/46vnnap6 #SWUSw

Southwest US Water News Daily - 12 May 2022. tinyurl.com/vu46x225 #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 11 May 2002. tinyurl.com/msjj9zbn #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/4kuhatkh #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 9 May 2022. tinyurl.com/5n7hmm79 #SWUSwater

Southwest US Wate News Daily - 8 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2np5erwr #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 7 May 2022. tinyurl.com/3zn8w9fc #SWUSwater

Texas Water News Daily
Texas Water News Daily - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/y7rdjn32 #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 12 May 2022. tinyurl.com/ms4baeu8 #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 11 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2yvtxsat #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 10 May 2022. tinyurl.com/yc7d35ac #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 9 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2fr3yf94 #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 8 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2v4s89dd #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 7 May 2022. tinyurl.com/2e6dhb2h #txwater

Education, Events, and Opportunities
From @OSUCEOAS 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/5n92crtu #PNWater

.@ConversationEDU: AU's future depends on science. What our next gov't. needs to do: tinyurl.com/yvm42az “Science is about far more than crisis management. It’s about how we understand our present and future, and realize our potential as people.” - John Shine @Science_Academy

E-Newsletters and E-Newspapers
From @OSUCEOAS 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/5n92crtu #PNWater

From @AZWRRC 'Weekly Wave' Newssletter - 13 May 2022. In This Issue: WRRC Conference, New Publication, Colorado River, APW, 104(b) and More! tinyurl.com/2rpmr9tj #SWUSwater cc:@SbmWater

The @WaterNetwork1 Newsletter - 13 May 2022. Essential Industry Trending Technology~Editor's Choice~Articles & Knowledge Exchange~Featured Jobs~Online Course~Events~More! tinyurl.com/mr2sfn43 #scicomm

It's @USATODAY Climate Point - 12 May 2022. Las Vegas outlaws 'non-functional' turf, should California follow? Plus: A wildfire costs $65 million in New Mexico and a May heat wave challenges summer temperature records. tinyurl.com/2p9cbvcs #scicomm

It's @Nature Briefing - 12 May 2022. First image of galaxy’s black-hole heart; How life could have begun in an ‘RNA world’; Young brain fluid boosts old mice’s memory; A worm by any other name; How NASA plans to get back to Moon; It all depends on water. tinyurl.com/yvb5ythn

It's @Nature Briefing - 11 May 2022. Bats buzz like hornets to scare off owls; Largest ‘marsquake’ ever detected; Big ships are killing huge sharks; Why menopause matters in academia; Sort out your units of measurement; Search for A. Grothendieck tinyurl.com/5bthyv79 #scicomm

It's @Nature Briefing - 10 May 2022. A more predictable future for SARS-CoV-2?; Guilty verdict in China Initiative trial; Methods combine to decode tuberculosis; Crowdfunders support researcher parents; When war breaks the ties that bind us' More tinyurl.com/2p85d2sj #scicomm

It's @Nature Briefing - 9 May 2022. How sunscreen turns into a coral killer; China expands control over genetic research; Renewables on the top of the world; How Ukrainian scientists are surviving;The climate data recorded in old beams; More! tinyurl.com/3czdzmhd #scicomm

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 9 May 2022 #EJHBB bit.ly/3kWrpCY

Ethics, Gender, Indigenous People, Rights
Support Women in Water Scholarship Fund-Donate Now! bit.ly/2S63TVr

Postcards from @groundwatergeek's 501(c)(3) americanaquifers.org #groundwater

“You are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.” - John Wesley Powell, 1893

My Ten Cents: 1) Lists of Endangered Aquifers? 2) Personhood for Aquifers? bit.ly/374sbub

Florida Water
In @Fla_Pol New algae blooms expose @GovRonDeSantis' failure to fix pollution. #FLwater tinyurl.com/2raa2ff2

From @pbpost Algae issue needs attack at source, not pretend study tinyurl.com/5cy4p49k #FLwater

Op-Ed in @TB_Times: 'Thank you @GovDeSantis, for helping to protect Florida homes from water.' tinyurl.com/32scyjzj #FLwater

From @10TampaBay: @FLDEPNews approves conceptual closure plan for Piney Point site. tinyurl.com/2c25zvx8 #FLwater

Global Water
It's @Water_MDPI Volume 14, Issue 9 (May-1 2022) – 206 articles. mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/9 #scicomm

Lisa's Lovely Lake Lore: 'Ghosts, Ghouls, Crimes of the Lakes; Edmund Fitzgerald Controversy; and Haunted Hydrology' bit.ly/3w5Z7uI

Groundwater and Hydrogeology
Postcards from @groundwatergeek's 501(c)(3) americanaquifers.org #groundwater

In @presstelegram: Long Beach injection well designed to increase groundwater supply. tinyurl.com/mr3v9vsa #cawater

From @10TampaBay: @FLDEPNews approves conceptual closure plan for Piney Point site. tinyurl.com/2c25zvx8 #FLwater

In @Bakersfieldcali: LOIS HENRY (@SJVWater): Local districts pull out of Kern Groundwater Authority. tinyurl.com/3t4r4jt5 #cawater

Via @WYPublicRadio Deep groundwater in Wind River and Bighorn basins could be key for the extractive industry future tinyurl.com/2p98bxpv #groundwater #cowater

Hydrofracking, Shale Gas, and Energy
In @TIME The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels. tinyurl.com/43ccbmt4 #scicomm

In @The_CBH: Hanford mitigation report released. tinyurl.com/2p8zsdw4 #PNWate

NE Water
From @CBSDetroit: Otter Spotted In Detroit River For First Time In 100 Years tinyurl.com/ypa48d4r #NEWater

In @LancasterNews: @SenBobCasey, @USDA
 promise $22.5 million to help farmers reduce runoff to Chesapeake Bay. tinyurl.com/bdz99jt5

Personal, People, Interviews, and Quotes
"This is a stressful time of year for our students. It is especially stressful for the students who barely attended class & missed most of the assignments. Please respond quickly to their questions about grades and be supportive of their requests to make up work." - @ass_deans

"In honor of Mother’s Day, we are pleased to announce mandatory in-person professional development training “Succeeding in Academics and Parenthood” (SAP) starting the week after public schools are out for the summer!" - @ass_deans

Via @AP: Bodies in Lake Mead recall Las Vegas' organized crime days. tinyurl.com/yc5drde6 #SWUSwater

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Lakota proverb (tnx @SbmWater)

"Thank you to all the faculty and staff for their hard work this semester, especially the faculty and staff we won’t be able to renew after the reorganization." - @ass_deans

“You are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.” - John Wesley Powell, 1893

"Do the faculty realize that I don’t even read the grade appeals any more? I just click “approve” every single time. They spend hours brooding over giving little Trevor a D, and I spend 2 seconds making sure he gets a C. " - @ass_deans

"To write is human, to edit is divine.” – @StephenKing

“We basically take a discipline [high-quality Earth-science education] that’s very important to us and we downgrade it. We make like it’s a low-level science when it’s not.” - Dane Schaffer in @Nature tinyurl.com/3czdzmhd #scicomm

PNW Water
From @OSUCEOAS 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 13 May 2022. tinyurl.com/5n92crtu #PNWater

From @KLCCOregon: Thanks to the McKenzie River, Eugene drinking water exceeds quality standards- again! tinyurl.com/mpyh8832

In @The_CBH: Hanford mitigation report released. tinyurl.com/2p8zsdw4 #PNWate

Policy, Planning, Law, Governance, Economics, IWRM, and Management
Sharon B. Megdal: 'Water Policy Options as Arizona Adapts to a Drier Colorado River: A Perspective' bit.ly/3FHvPqI#SWUSwater

In @TheAspenTimes: Colorado’s stream management planning watered down by agriculture. tinyurl.com/yzha7vcz #cowater

Positions Open    
JAWRA Seeks New Editor-in-Chief - Open Until Filled. bit.ly/3yisCfK #globalwater #water4climate

Josh's Water Jobs and More! 10 May 2022. bit.ly/3vWvi14 #globalwater

Previous Weeks' Positions Open    
Josh's Water Jobs and More! 3 May 2022 bit.ly/3Fe4Z9K #JobWaWi

Josh's Water Jobs and More! 26 April 2022 bit.ly/37Lg1XB #JobWaWi

Previous Weekly Water Summaries - Go To #WaWiNews
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 7 - 13 May 2022 bit.ly/3wqG4vA

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 30 April - 6 May 2022 bit.ly/3P6cvYL #water4climate

TGIF! Bi-Weekly Water News Summary 16 - 29 April 2022 bit.ly/39veghJ

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 9 - 15 April 2022 bit.ly/36kYLYx

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 2 - 8 April 2022 bit.ly/35TW67Q

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 26 March - 1 April 2022 bit.ly/3uLvCOl

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 19-25 March 2022 bit.ly/3ITuoWt

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 12 - 18 March 2022. bit.ly/3CSy5Kz

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 5-11 March 2022 bit.ly/3CJ8iUX 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 26 February - 4 March 2022 bit.ly/3Kjs3Fi

Reports, Publications, and Journals
It's @Water_MDPI Volume 14, Issue 9 (May-1 2022) – 206 articles. mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/9 #scicomm

CRS InFocus Report: '@EPA Water Infrastructure Programs and FY2022 Appropriation bit.ly/3FAOGDQ #water

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 9 May 2022 #EJHBB bit.ly/3kWrpCY

CRS InFocus Report: 'The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - FY2022 Appropriations and Background' bit.ly/3shqfpt #water4climate

In @The_CBH: Hanford mitigation report released. tinyurl.com/2p8zsdw4 #PNWate

Science, Medicine, Health, and Technology
It's @Nature Briefing - 12 May 2022. First image of galaxy’s black-hole heart; How life could have begun in an ‘RNA world’; Young brain fluid boosts old mice’s memory; A worm by any other name; How NASA plans to get back to Moon; It all depends on water. tinyurl.com/yvb5ythn

It's @Nature Briefing - 11 May 2022. Bats buzz like hornets to scare off owls; Largest ‘marsquake’ ever detected; Big ships are killing huge sharks; Why menopause matters in academia; Sort out your units of measurement; Search for A. Grothendieck tinyurl.com/5bthyv79 #scicomm

It's @Nature Briefing - 10 May 2022. A more predictable future for SARS-CoV-2?; Guilty verdict in China Initiative trial; Methods combine to decode tuberculosis; Crowdfunders support researcher parents; When war breaks the ties that bind us' More tinyurl.com/2p85d2sj #scicomm

It's @Nature Briefing - 9 May 2022. How sunscreen turns into a coral killer; China expands control over genetic research; Renewables on the top of the world; How Ukrainian scientists are surviving;The climate data recorded in old beams; More! tinyurl.com/3czdzmhd #scicomm

.@ConversationEDU: AU's future depends on science. What our next gov't. needs to do: tinyurl.com/yvm42az “Science is about far more than crisis management. It’s about how we understand our present and future, and realize our potential as people.” - John Shine @Science_Academy

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 9 May 2022 #EJHBB bit.ly/3kWrpCY

CRS InFocus Report: 'The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - FY2022 Appropriations and Background' bit.ly/3shqfpt #water4climate

Southwest Water  #SWUSwater
Sharon B. Megdal: 'Water Policy Options as Arizona Adapts to a Drier Colorado River: A Perspective' bit.ly/3FHvPqI#SWUSwater

From @AZWRRC 'Weekly Wave' Newssletter - 13 May 2022. In This Issue: WRRC Conference, New Publication, Colorado River, APW, 104(b) and More! tinyurl.com/2rpmr9tj #SWUSwater cc:@SbmWater

Via @AP: Bodies in Lake Mead recall Las Vegas' organized crime days. tinyurl.com/yc5drde6 #SWUSwater

Hoffa Harbor? From @FoxNews: Lake Mead drought exposes more human remains. tinyurl.com/yh6h75y3 #SWUSwater
 
From @TucsonStar: Colorado River's water deficit keeps growing, with no end in sight. tinyurl.com/mw69nsyx #SWUSwater

Streams, Wetlands, Dams, Lakes, and Ecosystems
Sharon B. Megdal: 'Water Policy Options as Arizona Adapts to a Drier Colorado River: A Perspective' bit.ly/3FHvPqI#SWUSwater

Lisa's Lovely Lake Lore: 'Ghosts, Ghouls, Crimes of the Lakes; Edmund Fitzgerald Controversy; and Haunted Hydrology' bit.ly/3w5Z7uI
 
Hoffa Harbor? From @FoxNews: Lake Mead drought exposes more human remains. tinyurl.com/yh6h75y3 #SWUSwater
 
From @CBSDetroit: Otter Spotted In Detroit River For First Time In 100 Years tinyurl.com/ypa48d4r #NEWater
 
From @EPAGreatLakes: It's #AmericanWetlandsMonth! Do you know the vital role that wetlands play across the world? They provide numerous benefits for people, fish, and wildlife such as improving water quality, providing habitats, and storing floodwaters. #CleanWater
@EPAwater

Texas   #txwater
The @TxWRIis seeking applicants who are engaged in water resources-related research for the second annual Faculty Fellowship Program for FY2022-23. The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2022. Read more: bit.ly/3HrB1OP #txwater

Visuals, Audios, Podcasts and Infographics
It's @thewaterloop podcast #142: 'Two Nations, One Park'. tinyurl.com/u4c84rdf #scicomm

Water/Land Quality and Contamination
In @Fla_Pol New algae blooms expose @GovRonDeSantis' failure to fix pollution. #FLwater tinyurl.com/2raa2ff2

From @pbpost Algae issue needs attack at source, not pretend study tinyurl.com/5cy4p49k #FLwater

In @LancasterNews: @SenBobCasey, @USDA
 promise $22.5 million to help farmers reduce runoff to Chesapeake Bay. tinyurl.com/bdz99jt5

Water Supply, Quantity, Reuse, Conservation, Infrastructure
Sharon B. Megdal: 'Water Policy Options as Arizona Adapts to a Drier Colorado River: A Perspective' bit.ly/3FHvPqI#SWUSwater

CRS InFocus Report: '@EPA Water Infrastructure Programs and FY2022 Appropriation bit.ly/3FAOGDQ #water

WTF?
Via @AP: Bodies in Lake Mead recall Las Vegas' organized crime days. tinyurl.com/yc5drde6 #SWUSwater

"The board approved three models for firing tenured faculty under exigency: 1. The Ice Floe Model 2. The Eat Our Young Model 3. The Hunger Games Model May the odds be ever in your favor." - @ass_deans

Posted on Friday, 13 May 2022 at 08:28 PM in Blogs, Twitters, WWW sites, e-Newsletters, & Lists, Readings, Journals, Videos, Films & Visuals, Tweets Galore It's Friday!, World Water | | Comments (0)

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Thursday, 12 May 2022

Sharon B. Megdal: 'Water Policy Options as Arizona Adapts to a Drier Colorado River: A Perspective'

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This paper by Sharon B. Megdal, Director of the Arizona Water Resources Research Center was commissioned by the Renewable Resources journal, a free journal. Water Policy Options as Arizona Adapts to a Drier Colorado River: A Perspective, Sharon B. Megdal

Download Megdal_AZPolicyOptions_RRJ_9May2022

Enjoy!

"This is a stressful time of year for our students. It is especially stressful for the students who barely attended class & missed most of the assignments. Please respond quickly to their questions about grades and be supportive of their requests to make up work." - @ass_deans

Posted on Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 10:02 PM in Climate Change, Climate & Meteorology, Extremes: Droughts, Floods, etc., Policy, Planning, Governance, IWRM & Management, Water Quantity & Availability, Western USA | | Comments (0)

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