This book has just been published: Fundamentals of Water Security: Quantity, Quality, and Equity in a Changing Climate (1st Edition) by Jim F. Chamberlain and David A. Sanatini of the University of Oklahoma.
Water security is an important topic these days. Looking for a good book on the topic? Try Fundamentals of Water Security: Quantity, Quality, and Equity in a Changing Climate. I must admit that I reviewed the book for the two authors, who are friends of mine. I cannot think of a better book on the topic. Jim is using it in a course of his this term; he's teaching in the new OU Hydrology & Water Security online Master's program.
The book's blurb:
Burgeoning populations and the ever-higher standards of living for those in emerging countries increase the demand on our water resources. What is not increasing, however, is the supply of water and the total amount of water in earth’s biosphere—water that is integral to all standards of living. Fundamentals of Water Security provides a foundation for understanding and managing the quantity-quality-equity nexus of water security in a changing climate.
In a broad sense, this volume explores solutions to water security challenges around the world. It is richly illustrated and pedagogically packed with up-to-date information. The text contains chapter learning objectives, foundation sections reviewing quantitative skills, case studies, and vignettes of people who have made important contributions to water security. To further aid comprehension, end-of-chapter problems are included—both qualitative and quantitative, with solutions available to instructors. Finally, extensive references feature books, journal articles, and government and NGO reports. Sample topics discussed include:
- How the study of water resources has evolved from a focus on physical availability to include social factors and governance
- How water security affects multiple disciplines across environmental science and engineering, hydrology, geography, water resources, atmospheric science, chemistry, biology, health science, and social and political science fields
- How to achieve a sufficient quantity and quality of water to equitably meet both immediate and long-term human and ecological needs
- Analysis of water security in an integrated manner by underscoring the complex interactions between water quantity, water quality, and society
Students taking courses on hydrology, water security, and/or water resource management, along with scientists working in fields where water security is a factor will be able to use Fundamentals of Water Security as a comprehensive textbook to understand and achieve water security.
Enjoy!
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Geoscience Bulletin Board - 26 September 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
M6.9 earthquake and numerous aftershocks hit Taiwan
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000i90q/executive
- Images: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/strong-earthquake-shakes-taiwan-see-toppled-building-derailed-train-torn-up-roads/ss-AA11XU0V
- Mega bridge failure: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/taiwan-gaoliao-bridge-destroyed-earthquake-videos-2002373-2022-09-20
M7.5 earthquake struck SW Mexico – prompted evacuations & building swayed in Mexico City & caused 4-ft seiche at Devils Hole in Death Valley
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00rigy8l/region-info
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/southwest-mexico-struck-by-7-5-magnitude-earthquake-buildings-sway-in-capital/ar-AA120AM0
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mexico-quake-had-0-00075-chance-of-repetition-expert-says/ar-AA121alU
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/mexicos-earthquake-coincidence-drives-anxiety-for-many/NUV24U2FVJKJDRIBNNJQFPVZWE/
- Coincidence: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/earthquake-mexico-michoacan-b2171505.html
- Seiche: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/mexican-earthquake-triggers-4-foot-waves-in-death-valley-national-park/ar-AA128isH
Lipad Mud Volcano erupts in Malaysia (video)
- https://uk.style.yahoo.com/rare-mud-volcano-erupts-malaysia-095953037.html
- https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2022/09/19/mud-volcano-in-tabin-not-precursor-to-bigger-quake-says-geologist
New Zealand raises alert level on Taupo Volcano – 700+ small earthquakes detected
Photo-essays: Exploring the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
- Ice Age Floods NGT – Part 1: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/06/photography-national-parks-exploring-along-ice-age-floods-national-geologic-trail-part-1
- Frenchman Coulee - Part 2: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2022/09/photography-national-parks-exploring-ice-age-floods-national-geologic-trail-part-2
Hydrologic cycle has been altered by human societies on local & global scales
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-were-reshaping-global-water-storage
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002848
Frequency & scale of earthquakes recorded in damage to Inca building of Cusco – archaeo-seismology
- https://eos.org/articles/written-in-stone-inca-buildings-remember-ancient-earthquakes
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618222002361
Nadir Crater may be roughly coincident with Chicxulub – formed from breakup of parent asteroid?
- https://eos.org/articles/impact-crater-off-the-african-coast-may-be-linked-to-chicxulub
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn3096
1,000-year history of monsoons and severe droughts in India revealed by stalagmites – synchronicity with historical events
20-million-year-old secrets of Agate Springs
380 myo armored fish fossil includes oldest preserved heart, liver & intestines – Devonian placoderm from Gogo lagerstätte
Continental large igneous province (LIP) eruptions exhibit linear relationship between eruptive rate and magnitude of mass extinctions
Protocodium sinense – first and oldest green alga Ediacaran species
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/protocodium-sinense-11219.html
- Paper: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-022-01394-0
Byzantine solar eclipse records reveal 5 total eclipses with information on location, timing & totality and variability of Earth rotation in 4th to 7th centuries
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220915104743.htm
- Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ac6b56
Measuring abyssal turbidity-current sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
- https://phys.org/news/2022-09-ocean-scientists-sediment-plume-deep-sea-mining.html
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn1219
Toward predicting locations of wildfires in the Great Basin
- https://phys.org/news/2022-09-advances-great-basin-wildfires.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742422000756
Linking shale gas fracking & legacy energy development to groundwater contamination in Pennsylvania
Refining the date of the Thera eruption on Santorini
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220921113133.htm
- Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274835
Swarm of 25 small earthquakes in the Salton Sea in Southern California over 24 hours
“Disrespectful” people tossing coins and trash into vents on Kilauea volcano
Eruption of Home Reef seamount has created new island
RADARSAT-2 has taken 1 million images
- https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/blog/2022/09/21/radarsat-2-reaches-milestone-of-one-million-images.asp
130,00-year-old sediment record reflects climate history in Thirlmere Lakes near Sydney, Australia
- https://theconversation.com/we-helped-fill-a-major-climate-change-knowledge-gap-thanks-to-130-000-year-old-sediment-in-sydney-lakes-187784
- https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/water/wetlands/research/thirlmere-lakes-research
2 landslides in Southeast Alaska – one onto Ellsworth Glacier & one onto Lamplugh Glacier
- https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/09/20/scientists-intrigued-by-2-southeast-alaska-landslides-1-week/
- Ecstall: https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2022/09/21/ecstall-river-1/
- Lamplugh: https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2022/09/23/lamplugh-glacier-1/
Monitoring landslide at Barry Arm in Prince William Sound near Whittier, Alaska – speed varies
Update: Geologist urges reconsideration of decision to backfill Jagersfontein open pit
First continents were unstable, sank into the planet before rising up
- https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-first-continents-sank-into-the-planet-before-rising-up-again
- Paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2201226119
Book Review: The Scenic Geology of Alberta
Boundary between European & African tectonic plates located & could cause large tsunamis
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/965745
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31895-z
Tonga eruption in January may have minor, if transient, impact on global climate
Palos Verdes fault zone in Southern California is system of interconnected, closely spaced planar fractures from Santa Monica Bay to waters off Dana Point – could be source of major earthquake
Cliff erosion poses potential threat to Tintagel Castle – birthplace of King Arthur – If you have not visited then I highly recommend seeing not only the Castle but also Merlin cave below – I found cassiterite crystals in the old tailings nearby
- https://planetradio.co.uk/greatest-hits/cornwall/news/tintagel-at-risk-from-coastal-erosion/
- https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-09-23/tintagel-castle-at-risk-of-crumbling-into-the-sea-amid-alarming-costal-erosion
- History: https://detritusofempire.blogspot.com/2014/04/tin-and-tintagel.html
Avalanche in catchment of Chorabari Glaciers triggers ice break near Kedarnath Temple
- https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/uttarakhand-kedarnath-temple-ice-break-chorabari-glacier-avalanche-kedarnath-dham-2003945-2022-09-23
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rfN3M5QTw
Environmental Science Bulletin Board - 26 September 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are out of control in the US – gonorrhea & syphilis rates rising and Monkeypox spreading among homosexual men – drug resistance increasing
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/amid-control-std-epidemic-calls-170300339.html
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/multi-drug-resistant-gonorrhoea
The consequence of legalizing marijuana? California seeing increasing illegal trade & political corruption
Carcinogenic Glyphosate herbicide used on crops (including certified sustainable wine grapes) in 43% of vineyards in Napa & 55% of vineyards in Sonoma
“Going Green” will require enormous amount of energy – estimated 40% to 2X as much energy by 2050 along with fortifying the grid – is it even possible?
Vaxx fatigue as people are getting 5th booster as part of pandemic – “Will this be the last booster shot?” as vaccine rates have stagnated
California allowing use of high-quality water for O&G industry – accurate accounting nearly impossible
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18092022/drought-wracked-california-allows-oil-companies-to-use-high-quality-water-but-regulators-error-strewn-records-make-accurate-accounting-nearly-impossible/
- Data: https://insideclimatenews.github.io/2022-09-ca-kern-oil-water/
Call for California to consider collateral impacts of $350M digesters to capture agricultural methane
- Part 1: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19092022/dairy-digesters-methane-california-manure/
- Part 2: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20092022/just-two-development-companies-drive-one-of-californias-most-controversial-climate-programs-manure-digesters/
China anticipates generating “clean energy” through nuclear fusion within next 6 years
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-fusion-power-just-6-174600584.html
- https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-fusion-china-z-pinch-machine-six-years-1743218
Product recalls to protect consumer safety include Colgate Optic White toothpastes & mouthwash
West Virginia announces plans for $3B 1,800 MW natural gas power plant
Plan to build pipeline from Nigeria to Morocco to supply gas to West African countries & export to Europe
Surge in EVs will mean more than 384 new mines to rape and pillage the Earth for resources by 2035 – 300M tons of lithium, 200,000 tons of cobalt, 3M tons of nickel, 6M tons of graphite
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/hundreds-of-new-mines-will-be-needed-to-source-the-raw-materials-to-make-evs/ar-AA120vqr
- https://www.benchmarkminerals.com/membership/more-than-300-new-mines-required-to-meet-battery-demand-by-2035/
Our Southern Border is still being invaded by illegal immigrants putting America & Americans at risk – 2.1M arrested thus far (many others evaded arrest)
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-migrant-statistic-joe-biden-didn-t-want-to-see-before-the-midterms/ar-AA122ixl
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-mayor-urged-to-abolish-90-day-shelter-rule-amid-migrant-influx/ar-AA121Wgq
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/broken-border-terrorist-watch-list-arrests-spike-as-migrants-flock-to-us-from-farther-countries/ar-AA121Smp
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/broken-border-terrorist-watch-list-arrests-spike-as-migrants-flock-to-us-from-farther-countries
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/watch-biden-called-biggest-coyote-ever-if-transporting-immigrants-is-illegal/ar-AA122AHW
Controversial medical waste company fined $2.3M by EPA moving from Utah to northern Nevada – failed emissions tests for more than a year – plans 2 waste incinerators in NV
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/controversial-medical-waste-company-fined-millions-by-epa-moves-to-northern-nevada/ar-AA120Gx4
- 2021 Settlement: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/justice-department-and-epa-announce-settlement-stericycle-inc-address-environmental
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument – Battle of the Greasy Grass
Romancing the River: The Colorado River Compact at 100
Human bodies can now legally be composted in California
Tesla Megapack Battery fire temporarily shut down Hwy 1 with residents ordered to shelter in place
- https://electrek.co/2022/09/20/tesla-megapack-caught-fire-giant-battery-project/
- https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/highway-1-closed-at-moss-landing-due-to-fire/
One-in-a-million White Spirit Bear sighted in Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Another stupid social media stunt – cooking chicken in NyQuil is unappetizing and very unsafe
Fund raising for proposed $6B transmission line to bring hydropower from Canada to New York City
New York City plan intents to cut commercial waste vehicle traffic in half & boost recycling – will it work?
Historic steel industry created trace element contamination in soils in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/metal-pollutants-soil-study
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ac7cc2/pdf
Call for EPA to more vigorously address man-made chemicals (SF6, CF4 and C2F6) in the atmosphere
Hydrologic cycle has been altered by human societies on local to global scales & human population and demands for water keeps growing
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-were-reshaping-global-water-storage
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002848
Visualizing the US Utilities Decarbonization Index – top 30 for 2022
Visualizing one year of global waste & average annual per capita municipal waste generation
Visualizing the aging population of the European Union by the year 2100
20 quadrillion ants have a greater total mass than all birds and mammals combined
60 Bison relocated from Grand Canyon National Park North Rim to Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma & Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
PFAS forever chemicals found in dental floss
Pennsylvania becomes newest “sacrifice zone” for American addition to plastic
WH Conference on Hunger on September 28 will be “game-changing catalyst” or glorified press event
Biden calls pandemic “over” despite pathetic booster rates & fear-mongering new variants
The Earth has a natural nitrogen cycle
Tigris River is in its twilight – human activity has caused significant decline: dams, pollution and garbage, excess demand by growing population, desalination
Urban Waters Federal Partnership to invest $4M to improve urban waterways across the US
Improved air quality accelerated “global warming” in recent decades
- https://phys.org/news/2022-09-air-quality-global-decades.html
- Paper: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/12221/2022/
Urban hay fever impacted by pollen that travels long-distance in the atmosphere
- https://phys.org/news/2022-09-pollen-atmosphere-reveals-insights-urban.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-022-00294-y
Groundwater used for drinking water in California prison contaminated by arsenic
- https://phys.org/news/2022-09-potentially-dangerous-arsenic-california-prison.html
- Paper: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP10758
Dinosaurs & plants survived when atmospheric CO2 concentrations were up to 6,000 ppm & temperatures were hotter by 10 degrees C – why can’t humans survive modern conditions?
Desertification control plan is on the agenda of Forests, Rangelands, and Watershed Management Organization in Iran
Following M6.9 earthquake and on anniversary of deadly 1999 Jiji earthquake Taiwan marks Disaster Prevention Day
Fraud charges filed in siphoning pandemic relief funds program - $250M in Minnesota food program & $149M in false billings & theft - $128M in telehealth fraud & $5.6B in unemployment fraud
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/20/covid-19-child-meal-program-fraud-charges/10435117002/
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/20/suspects-charged-alleged-covid-fraud/7382675001/
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/12/coronavirus-watch-telehealth-fraud-cost-medicare-128-m-first-year-pandemic/8062955001/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-watchdog-estimates-45-6-billion-in-pandemic-unemployment-fraud/ar-AA128lbY
Homeless crisis in California – lawsuits, protests, political feuding as the problem worsens
Even if prescribed by a doctor, pharmaceutical drugs can come with serious or even deadly side effects
Push to build more nuclear power plants – but still no storage facility for high level radioactive waste
Fauci finally admits he knew ‘draconian measures’ would have “collateral negative consequences”
Wind & solar account for only 10% of global energy demand & solar “tripping” problem not yet solved
- https://about.bnef.com/blog/wind-and-solar-top-10-of-global-power-generation-for-first-time/
- https://www.eenews.net/articles/why-solar-tripping-is-a-grid-threat-for-renewables/
California energy “in a very bad situation compared to even the worst case that we anticipated”
Textiles industry needs to cut the staggering environmental impact of “fashion”
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02914-2
- Workshop Report: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.1500-207.pdf
Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 26 September 2022 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Warnings issued for remnants of Typhoon Merbok to hit Bering Sea and coastal Alaska – strongest storm in more than a decade – videos & images of storm surge – damage assessments begin
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/alaska-is-facing-its-strongest-storm-in-over-a-decade/ar-AA11SySm
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/harrowing-videos-and-photos-show-severe-alaska-flooding-amid-worst-storm/ar-AA11WPXa
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homes-knocked-off-foundations-roads-damaged-after-powerful-western-alaska-storm/ar-AA11YHX4
- https://news.yahoo.com/typhoon-merbok-fueled-unusually-warm-114555064.html
- https://apnews.com/article/floods-storms-united-states-alaska-typhoons-6bc502bdafc4876e6af40d924b3835e6
12 beaches on Maui are highly vulnerable to coastal threats
- https://mauinow.com/2022/09/17/12-maui-beaches-face-high-vulnerability-to-coastal-threats-from-sea-level-rise/
- Project: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/4823c0001269442091c5af315f04733f/page/Project-Overview/
- Map: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/4823c0001269442091c5af315f04733f/page/Adaptation-and-Mapping-Tool/
North Carolina DEQ issued NPDES permit for GAC filtration treatment system to removed PFAS chemicals from groundwater, surface water & stormwater
Reassessment of decaying north end jetty at Pawleys Island
Reassessment of decaying north end jetty at Pawleys Island
Saltwater intrusion along US East Coast areas causes “ghost forests” – caused mostly by over-pumping freshwater supplies
- https://www.circleofblue.org/2022/world/saltwater-intrusion-a-slow-poison-to-east-coast-drinking-water/
- https://www.circleofblue.org/2022/world/dead-tree-standing-saltwater-threatens-coastal-forests-and-ecosystem-services/
- https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3731671833e34567b783e9b881a8b36e
Jihadist conflicts plague coastal West Africa – history and needing a new approach to counter extremism
Progress on construction of $60M Harkers Island bridge
North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission staff to draft revised septic tank setbacks
North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission staff to draft revised septic tank setbacks
Typhoon Nanmadol impacts southern coastal areas of South Korea
Potential for using centuries-old solar still technology to convert saltwater to fresh in coastal areas
Technology not here yet, but Biden admin announced floating offshore wind turbine effort – “wind shot” to reduce costs of floating offshore wind energy by 70% by 2035 through $50M in subsidies – compare 28 terawatts to annual US consumption of more than 4,000 terawatts
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/us-launches-program-to-boost-floating-wind-turbines/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sets-target-floating-offshore-wind-farms-expansion-2022-09-15/
- Map: https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/new-wind-resource-assessment-finds-28-terawatts-floating-offshore-wind-energy
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/massive-wind-turbines-are-coming-to-a-coast-near-you-will-biden-s-audacious-goal-pay-off/ar-AA122IKB
- Wind shot program: https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/floating-offshore-wind-shot
Caltrans announces intent to build elevated road along Highway 37 along San Pablo Bay then through Marin, Sonoma, Napa & Solano Counties – also bridge construction between Novato & Vallejo
- https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/highway-37-could-be-under-water-decades-from-now-heres-caltrans-solution/
- https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/sea-level-rise-threatens-highway-37-leaders-prepare-billion-dollar-plan-to/
US Army COE outlines storm protection upgrades for Port Arthur – multi-billion-dollar project to adjust existing structures – total cost estimated at $40B for Savine Pass to Galveston Bay Coastal Storm Risk Management Program
900,000 menhaden netter, killed and dumped back into Gulf of Mexico
“Artificial Blowhole” created on Australian coast to test potential for generating electricity
US BOEM laid out plans to improve identification of future offshore wind energy sites
- https://renews.biz/80509/us-boem-to-improve-processes-for-identifying-weas/
- BOEM: https://www.boem.gov/newsroom/notes-stakeholders/boem-enhances-its-processes-identify-future-offshore-wind-energy-areas
- US BOEM Environmental Studies: https://www.boem.gov/environmental-studies
Shipping canal now links Polish port of Elblag on the Vistula Lagoon to the Baltic Sea
230 pilot whales stranded on coast of Tasmania are feared dead – 200 dead
- https://www.terradaily.com/reports/230_pilot_whales_stranded_in_Australia_about_half_feared_dead_999.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/200-whales-dead-35-rescued-after-beaching-on-ocean-beach-in-australia/ss-AA127OqP
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