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David K. Kreamer: 'Perspectives on a Crucial Resource - The Importance and Vulnerability of our Water Supplies'

Dr. David K. Kreamer, UNLV Professor, friend, fellow U of AZ hydrology PhD grad, and President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists, gave this presentation during AGI's Earth Science Week in October. The video is shown below and is on YouTube.

Here is the blurb on the YouTube site:

The need for having sustainable water is a key element in global resilience to climate change, as a shield against ecosystem loss, and as a defense against human deprivation and poverty. Water is essential to the health of all living things. With the onslaught of climate change, drought and exploding population growth, water is a valuable but very vulnerable resource. Water can be an element of peace, supporting security and abundance, or a source of transboundary conflict fueling political ambitions.

Groundwater, in particular, is the underpinning of irrigated agriculture and energy production and it therefore supports food security and economic development. Groundwater provides drinking water to at least 50% of the global population, and worldwide, approximately 2.5 billion people depend solely on groundwater resources to satisfy their basic daily water needs (UNESCO, 2012). In these times of Covid-19, groundwater also promotes hand washing in isolated rural communities. But it is a hidden resource and not well understood.

Examples from around the nation and world illustrate the importance, vulnerability, and changing aspects of water quantity and quality. Some potential solutions and stopgap measures are on the horizon to preserve our water resources, but the challenges are immense.

I also want to give a shout-out to Dave for doing the global groundwater community a great service by revising C.W. Fetter's 'Applied Hydrogeology' (5/e). Ditto 'Contaminant Hydrogeology' (3/e). See here: https://bit.ly/3CNudcP. Thanks, Dave!

He will be a panelist on the free webinar 'Revisiting the Nile River Basin', 16 November, 10 AM - 11:30 AM EST. Register: https://bit.ly/3bAAuwt

Enjoy!

"The science of hydrology would be relatively simple if water were unable to penetrate below the earth's surface" -

Harold E. Thomas (thanks to Maria Gibson)

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 23 - 29 October 2021

The @onbeing Project with @kristatippett: Listen
to the amazing  @KHayhoe 'Our future is still in our hands' https://bit.ly/3b3XqE6

You'll be amazed as the enthusiastic, optimistic Dr. Hayhoe discusses climate change and our future. You'll enjoy it and be energized.  

Enjoy!

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Top Twenty-Five (More or Less)
From @AZWRRC: 'Weekly Wave' Newsletter - 29 October 2021. In this issue: MAR 5, IDWW, New Book, APW, Webinar, Dubai Expo, Photo Contest https://tinyurl.com/2z66dn5m #SWUSwater 

From @USATODAY by @janetwilson66: 'Climate Point' - 29 October 2021. @UN official decries 'morally indefensible' inaction; #COP26 in Glasgow; More! https://tinyurl.com/b9urt9vc #globalwater #cdnwater

CRS Report: 'U.S. Climate Change Policy' https://bit.ly/3mqJ7Aa #globalwater

CRS Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Pledges by Selected Countries - Nationally Determined Contributions & Net-Zero Legislation' https://bit.ly/3pKUVzk #globalwater

Guest column in @mtdemocratnews: California’s water shortage was created by a lack of leadership, not Mother Nature. https://bit.ly/3vSnqMc #cawater

From @TheEconomist: Stabilising the climate. https://econ.st/3BntkpR

From @pressanddakotan; Corps Ready For A Dry Winter https://bit.ly/3bhvQDw #PNWater

Webinar - @Stanford's @WaterintheWest: 'Covering Water in the West: A Conversation with Journalists' with @ByIanJames, @AbrahmL, @loishenry, @felicitybarr - Tuesday, 2 Nov, noon - 1 PM PT. https://bit.ly/2ZrZ7sZ

From @kcranews: Weekend rain helped Northern California reservoirs, but drought impacts still deep https://tinyurl.com/jrzvye8n #cawater

In @jaxdotcom After 34 years of growth, will Congress change how Florida's clean-water money is figured? https://tinyurl.com/tpcs699w

66th Annual New Mexico Water Conference: 'Reality and Resilience: Planning for New Mexico's Water Future' Free Virtual Conference 26-28 October 2021. Tuesday Conference Session Starts Today at 10:30 MT https://bit.ly/3mbVr73 #SWUSwater

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 25 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3b77xrF

The @onbeing Project with @kristatippett: Listen to the amazing  @KHayhoe 'Our future is still in our hands' https://bit.ly/3b3XqE6

From @JPRnews: Clean Water Act protections restored after lawsuit https://bit.ly/3jvILWU #PNWater

In @SpotlightNews Oregon to test for toxic 'forever chemicals' in public water systems. https://bit.ly/2ZjVBAa #PNWater

Guest Column in @jaxdotcom: Solutions to climate change start at the local level https://bit.ly/3b8vCPa #FLwater 

From @EPAMichaelRegan: Broad Coalition of Advocates, Community Leaders, and Officials Praise @EPA’s New Roadmap on PFAS https://bit.ly/3pA3QU7

CRS InFocus Report: '@usbr Water Storage Projects - Section 4007 of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act' https://bit.ly/3BadGxO #SWUSwater

From @witfnews: La Niña is coming. Here’s what that means for winter weather in the U.S. https://bit.ly/3baTf9q #NEWater

By @tonydavis987 in @TucsonStar: Fixing the ailing Colorado River: Where will the water savings come from? https://bit.ly/3B4aN1K #SWUSwater

From @OPB: Bitter Harvest: Klamath Basin farmers take stock of their losses. https://bit.ly/3EqMBsD

From @Gizmodo: After Dune, You’ll Never Think About Water the Same Way Again https://bit.ly/3b2uoVB (tnx @EAKoebele)

From @KVPR Fresno County farmers at a ‘crossroads’ as drought, climate change limit water supply. https://tinyurl.com/yftcyt2z #cawater

CRS Report: 'Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in the United States' Updated: 18 October 2021 https://bit.ly/30P9HKS

It's @Water_MDPI, Vol 13, Issue 20 (Oct-2 2021) - 143 Articles https://bit.ly/3b9xk2p

From @OSUCEOAS: 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 29 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3nGA7Gp #PNWater

From @AGU_Eos: Buzz Newsletter - 29 October 2021. Air Pollution Killed a Million People in Africa in 2019; Understanding Tremors Through Tree Rings; Melting Arctic Sea Ice Strengthens Tides; More! https://bit.ly/3Bw4Hao #globalwater

CRS Insight Report: '2021 Hurricane Outlook and Review of 2020 Hurricane Season' https://bit.ly/3vZInow

CRS Report: 'Dam Removal and the Federal Role' https://bit.ly/3mqJbjg

Books, Reviews and Related
From @Gizmodo: After Dune, You’ll Never Think About Water the Same Way Again https://bit.ly/3b2uoVB (tnx @EAKoebele)

Bottled Water, Beer, Drinking Water/TapWater
In @SpotlightNews Oregon to test for toxic 'forever chemicals' in public water systems. https://bit.ly/2ZjVBAa #PNWater

From @EPAMichaelRegan: Broad Coalition of Advocates, Community Leaders, and Officials Praise @EPA’s New Roadmap on PFAS https://bit.ly/3pA3QU7

Next Cleveland mayor needs to focus on equitable and safe drinking-water access: Opinion by Crystal Davis in @ThePlainDealer. https://bit.ly/2XEOq5f

Bullshit and Crap Detection
From @NPR and @AP: This city will rely on bottled water for weeks because of high lead levels. https://n.pr/3b2JwSH

California
In @RecordBee by @PaulRogersSJMN: Atmospheric river storm: How it affects California’s drought https://tinyurl.com/4vvj7pvy #cawater

Guest column in @mtdemocratnews: California’s water shortage was created by a lack of leadership, not Mother Nature. https://bit.ly/3vSnqMc #cawater

From @kcranews: Weekend rain helped Northern California reservoirs, but drought impacts still deep https://tinyurl.com/jrzvye8n #cawater

Via @NWSSacramento: Over just 24 hrs, Sac Exec Ap received 81.9% of total precip from the entire 2020 - 2021 water year! Here are some comparisons. Rain is still falling, so stay tuned for updates on the storm total precip amounts from this #AtmosphericRivers (tnx @D_Blodgett)

From @OPB: Bitter Harvest: Klamath Basin farmers take stock of their losses. https://bit.ly/3EqMBsD

From @FOX40: Study suggests flooding could reach never-before-seen levels in Sacramento, Central valleys https://bit.ly/3vFE8hG

From @KVPR Fresno County farmers at a ‘crossroads’ as drought, climate change limit water supply. https://tinyurl.com/yftcyt2z #cawater

Canada
From @CanadianWater B.C. residents say water is the top environmental issue: Poll https://bit.ly/3EmnJSF #cdnwater

From @CanadianWater 'The Droplet' Newsletter - 25 October 2021. Company of the Year: LuminUltra Technologies Ltd; B.C. residents say water is the top environmental issue: Poll; More! https://bit.ly/3vQ5jGJ

The @onbeing Project with @kristatippett: Listen to the amazing  @KHayhoe 'Our future is still in our hands' https://bit.ly/3b3XqE6

Climate, Climate Change, and Meteorology
From @USATODAY by @janetwilson66: 'Climate Point' - 29 October 2021. @UN official decries 'morally indefensible' inaction; #COP26 in Glasgow; More! https://tinyurl.com/b9urt9vc #globalwater #cdnwater

In @RecordBee by @PaulRogersSJMN: Atmospheric river storm: How it affects California’s drought https://tinyurl.com/4vvj7pvy #cawater

From @TheEconomist: Stabilising the climate. https://econ.st/3BntkpR

CRS Report: 'U.S. Climate Change Policy' https://bit.ly/3mqJ7Aa #globalwater

CRS Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Pledges by Selected Countries - Nationally Determined Contributions & Net-Zero Legislation' https://bit.ly/3pKUVzk #globalwater

The @onbeing Project with @kristatippett: Listen to the amazing  @KHayhoe 'Our future is still in our hands' https://bit.ly/3b3XqE6

From @witfnews: La Niña is coming. Here’s what that means for winter weather in the U.S. https://bit.ly/3baTf9q #NEWater

CRS Insight Report: '2021 Hurricane Outlook and Review of 2020 Hurricane Season' https://bit.ly/3vZInow

Colorado
By @tonydavis987 in @TucsonStar: Fixing the ailing Colorado River: Where will the water savings come from? https://bit.ly/3B4aN1K #SWUSwater

From @CBSDenver From Latest Projection: Lake Powell Could Reach Critically Low Water Level By July https://cbsloc.al/30Q40Mx

Conferences,Webinars, Workshops and Calls for Abstracts/Paper
Webinar - @Stanford's @WaterintheWest: 'Covering Water in the West: A Conversation with Journalists' with @ByIanJames, @AbrahmL, @loishenry, @felicitybarr - Tuesday, 2 Nov, noon - 1 PM PT. https://bit.ly/2ZrZ7sZ

66th Annual New Mexico Water Conference: 'Reality and Resilience: Planning for New Mexico's Water Future' Free Virtual Conference 26-28 October 2021. Tuesday Conference Session Starts Today at 10:30 MT https://bit.ly/3mbVr73 #SWUSwater

From @AWWA: 'Water Financing Dialogue: WIFIA in 2021: Helping to Move Drinking Water Forward', 5 November 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM MDT. https://tinyurl.com/2kvewntm #cowater

Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
From @EPAMichaelRegan: Broad Coalition of Advocates, Community Leaders, and Officials Praise @EPA’s New Roadmap on PFAS https://bit.ly/3pA3QU7

From @OPB: Bitter Harvest: Klamath Basin farmers take stock of their losses. https://bit.ly/3EqMBsD

Disasters: Droughts, Floods, Wildfires and More
In @RecordBee by @PaulRogersSJMN: Atmospheric river storm: How it affects California’s drought https://tinyurl.com/4vvj7pvy #cawater

From @kcranews: Weekend rain helped Northern California reservoirs, but drought impacts still deep https://tinyurl.com/jrzvye8n #cawater

In @SIadvance: NYC flash flood watch due to coastal storm in effect Monday through Tuesday https://bit.ly/3vQoK2o #NEWater

From @FOX40: Study suggests flooding could reach never-before-seen levels in Sacramento, Central valleys https://bit.ly/3vFE8hG

Daily Water Newsletters
California Water Daily
California Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/jesbanbb #cawater

California Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jMjZ52 #cawater

California Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Gv2AHA #cawater

California Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/4v92fzpz #cawater

California Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jydoei #cawater

California Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3B9tZev #cawater

California Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3B9Z1my #cawater

Colorado Water Daily
Colorado Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/yvrrkt44 #cowater 

Colorado Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3vW9eSk #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3CkvPe0 #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/4hkkzxp2 #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3nuJuJd #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Cc01b6 #cowater

Colorado Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3m73qCg #cowater

Florida Water Daily
Florida Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/3jwdrupz #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jOuaWS #FLwater  

Florida Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3GmkLiV #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/2a2j8yxm #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3vV5IYN #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Eb2Jye #FLwater

Florida Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Eejhp3 #FLwater

Idaho Water News Daily
Idaho Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/4k3rny2x #IDwater

Idaho Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3GzgxnZ #IDwater

Idaho Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3biDltL #IDwater

Idaho Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3pFYXsp #IDwater

Idaho Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jzlDXL #IDwater

Idaho Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3C9NZik #IDwater

Idaho Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/2XJDcN2 #IDwater

Northeast US Water Daily
Northeast US Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/4bu8m3as #NEWater

Northeast US Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Cq5rzn #NEWater

Northeast US Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3beg2kL #NEWater

Northeast US Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/yb9h4fb9 #NEWater

Northeast US Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/2ZmFZMj #NEWater

Northeast US Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3B9wuxw #NEWater

Northeast US Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Ggz8F9 #NEWater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily
Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/sep55pay #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3nFCfyc #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/2Zs6fWh #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/38tf2rz7 #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/30ZjgqG #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jtdzr9 #PNWater

Pacific Northwest Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jthxQO #PNWater

Portland (OR) Water News Daily
Portland (OR) Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/3umtxvda #PDXwater

Portland (OR) Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3EsJ1Om

Portland (OR) Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/2ZAVnVR #PDXwater

Portland (OR) Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/yft7yff4 #PDXwater

Portlasnd (OR) Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jBsfoh #PDXwater

Portland (OR) Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3puUkkT #PDXwater

Portland (OR) Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Eddbp0 #PDXwater

Eugene Water News Weekly - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3B79oYl #EUGwater

Southwest US Water Daily
Southwest US Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3Ex0PI7 #SWUSwater 

Southwest US Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/31cBaGw #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jK0D0t #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3bu4MkJ #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3pA2f0l #SWUSwater

Southwest US Water News Daily - 24 Octobere 2021. https://bit.ly/3jyU4Od #SWUSwater

Texas Water Daily
Texas Water News Daily - 29 October 2021. https://tinyurl.com/4a9tw3c2 #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 28 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3mlNIDs #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 27 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3pHox0h #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 26 October 2021. https://bit.ly/2ZlEgHg #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 25 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3BbWjgq #txwater

Texas Water News Daily - 24 October 2021. https://bit.ly/2Zko9ti #txwater

Texas Water News Daily -23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3jw3jyp #txwater

Education, Events, and Opportunities
From @UCBerkeley Video: 'Introduction to Groundwater Contamination' https://youtu.be/Oqkd_cjSHwg #cawater

From @OSUCEOAS: 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 29 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3nGA7Gp #PNWater

E-Newsletters and E-Newspapers
The @WaterNetwork1 Newsletter - 29 October 2021. Essential Industry Trending Technology~Editor's Choice~Articles & Knowledge Exchange~Featured Jobs~Online Course~Events~More! https://bit.ly/3CxeDlE #globalwater

From @AZWRRC: 'Weekly Wave' Newsletter - 29 October 2021. In this issue: MAR 5, IDWW, New Book, APW, Webinar, Dubai Expo, Photo Contest https://tinyurl.com/2z66dn5m #SWUSwater

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 25 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3b77xrF

From @OSUCEOAS: 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 29 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3nGA7Gp #PNWater

From @AGU_Eos: Buzz Newsletter - 29 October 2021. Air Pollution Killed a Million People in Africa in 2019; Understanding Tremors Through Tree Rings; Melting Arctic Sea Ice Strengthens Tides; More! https://bit.ly/3Bw4Hao #globalwater

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

From @World_Waters: The Renaissance Dam and the Question of Water Rights on the Nile River. https://bit.ly/3DRH6mt #globalwater

Florida Water
The @SWFWMD will hold a virtual workshop on minimum flows for Lower Shell Creek in Charlotte County. https://bit.ly/3GpUK25 #FLwater 

In @jaxdotcom After 34 years of growth, will Congress change how Florida's clean-water money is figured? https://tinyurl.com/tpcs699w

Guest Column in @jaxdotcom: Solutions to climate change start at the local level https://bit.ly/3b8vCPa #FLwater 

From @witfnews: La Niña is coming. Here’s what that means for winter weather in the U.S. https://bit.ly/3baTf9q #NEWater

Global Water
From @USATODAY by @janetwilson66: 'Climate Point' - 29 October 2021. @UN official decries 'morally indefensible' inaction; #COP26 in Glasgow; More! https://tinyurl.com/b9urt9vc #globalwater #cdnwater

CRS Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Pledges by Selected Countries - Nationally Determined Contributions & Net-Zero Legislation' https://bit.ly/3pKUVzk #globalwater

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 25 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3b77xrF

The @onbeing Project with @kristatippett: Listen to the amazing  @KHayhoe 'Our future is still in our hands' https://bit.ly/3b3XqE6

From @Gizmodo: After Dune, You’ll Never Think About Water the Same Way Again https://bit.ly/3b2uoVB (tnx @EAKoebele)

It's @Water_MDPI, Vol 13, Issue 20 (Oct-2 2021) - 143 Articles https://bit.ly/3b9xk2p

From @World_Waters: The Renaissance Dam and the Question of Water Rights on the Nile River. https://bit.ly/3DRH6mt #globalwater

From @AGU_Eos: Buzz Newsletter - 29 October 2021. Air Pollution Killed a Million People in Africa in 2019; Understanding Tremors Through Tree Rings; Melting Arctic Sea Ice Strengthens Tides; More! https://bit.ly/3Bw4Hao #globalwater

Groundwater and Hydrogeology
From @UCBerkeley Video: 'Introduction to Groundwater Contamination' https://youtu.be/Oqkd_cjSHwg #cawater

Hydrofracking, Shale Gas, and Energy
CRS Report: 'Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in the United States' Updated: 18 October 2021 https://bit.ly/30P9HKS

NE Water #NEWater
In @SIadvance: NYC flash flood watch due to coastal storm in effect Monday through Tuesday https://bit.ly/3vQoK2o #NEWater

From @AP: Beavers wreaking havoc on New York town’s water supply. https://bit.ly/3vVCj0B #NEWater

From @witfnews: La Niña is coming. Here’s what that means for winter weather in the U.S. https://bit.ly/3baTf9q #NEWater

Next Cleveland mayor needs to focus on equitable and safe drinking-water access: Opinion by Crystal Davis in @ThePlainDealer. https://bit.ly/2XEOq5f

From @NPR and @AP: This city will rely on bottled water for weeks because of high lead levels. https://n.pr/3b2JwSH

Personal, People, Interviews, and Quotes
"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Albert Einstein

"If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else." - Yogi Berra

"Wealth is like seawater; the more we have, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame." - Arthur Schopenhauer (quoted in @TheAtlantic via @TheWeek). And power, too!

It's never too late to become what you might have been." - George Eliot (quoted in @IBDinvestors via @TheWeek)

You cannot adapt to extinction.” - @vanessa_vash

"I don’t mind. The mass extinction of the Earth compared to one day of school." - Anna, 17, UK, on school strike, February 2019

PNW Water
From @pressanddakotan; Corps Ready For A Dry Winter https://bit.ly/3bhvQDw #PNWater

From @JPRnews: Clean Water Act protections restored after lawsuit https://bit.ly/3jvILWU #PNWater

In @SpotlightNews Oregon to test for toxic 'forever chemicals' in public water systems. https://bit.ly/2ZjVBAa #PNWater

From @OPB: Bitter Harvest: Klamath Basin farmers take stock of their losses. https://bit.ly/3EqMBsD

From @OSUCEOAS: 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 29 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3nGA7Gp #PNWater

Policy, Planning, Law, Governance, Economics, IWRM, and Management
From @aspenpubradio: Talking about demand management and how to leave more water in the Colorado River https://bit.ly/3aM60r9 #cowater #SWUSwater

CRS Report: 'Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in the United States' Updated: 18 October 2021 https://bit.ly/30P9HKS #NEWater

CRS Report: 'U.S. Climate Change Policy' https://bit.ly/3mqJ7Aa #globalwater

From @AWWA: 'Water Financing Dialogue: WIFIA in 2021: Helping to Move Drinking Water Forward', 5 November 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM MDT. https://tinyurl.com/2kvewntm #cowater

Positions Open  #JobWaWi
Josh's Water Jobs and More! - 26 October 2021 (+ Wellspring blog) https://bit.ly/3nqYVC9

Check out jobs @ @OregonState's Water Resources Graduate Program https://oregonstate.edu/gradwater/jobs #JobWaWi

Check out @WaterDistJobs! https://waterdistrictjobs.com  #JobWaWi

For the latest @TVAjobs Employment opportunities visit https://tva.me/4mRN6k  #JobWaWi

Amazing resource! Follow @joshswaterjobs and visit his website: https://www.joshswaterjobs.com  #JobWaWi

Check out @FLWaterDaily #FLwater jobs! https://tinyurl.com/jpffgoh  #JobWaWi

Positions: @CA_DWR - Various locations and types: enviro science, geology, engineering, restoration, etc.https://bit.ly/1XaG4sw  #JobWaWi

Positions: @SeaGrant - Various positions across the USA. Updated regularly. https://1.usa.gov/1SYL5RQ  #JobWaWi

 @BCWaterNews Jobs Click 'View Jobs' at https://bcwaterjobs.com 

@EcologyWA - Current Openings - Updated every few days https://1.usa.gov/1evxlPd

Current Positions: @NYCDEP (New York City & environs) - Various. https://tinyurl.com/zoq6jqc

Positions (many): @nature_org - Various locations and duties. https://jobs.nature.org/jobs/  #JobWaWi

Previous Weeks' Positions Open    #JobWaWi
Josh's Water Jobs and More! - 19 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3jejalo

Josh's Water Jobs and More! - 12 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3mQgtYe

Previous Weekly Water Summaries - Go To #WaWiNews
TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 23 - 29 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3Eqluh4

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 16 - 22 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3Ga3dq2

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 9 - 15 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3FV0ktg

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 2-8 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3mxxeqE

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 25 September - 1 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3a3MZ2Z

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 18 - 24 September 2021 https://bit.ly/3i6CgJw

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 11 - 17 September 2021 https://bit.ly/2XsAgUZ

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 4 - 10 September 2021 https://bit.ly/3z2Ol83

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 21 August - 3 September 2021 https://bit.ly/2WPVBr4

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 14 - 20 August 2021 https://bit.ly/2UAULgx

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 7 - 13 August 2021 https://bit.ly/2UfEWf4

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 31 July - 6 August 2021 https://bit.ly/3lF3OIo

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 24-30 July 2021 https://bit.ly/2VpvGFe

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 17 - 23 July 2021 https://bit.ly/3BzE7hT

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 10 - 16 July 2021 https://bit.ly/2UjN2U

Reports, Publications, and Journals
CRS Report: 'U.S. Climate Change Policy' https://bit.ly/3mqJ7Aa #globalwater

CRS Report: 'Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in the United States' Updated: 18 October 2021 https://bit.ly/30P9HKS  

CRS Insight Report: '2021 Hurricane Outlook and Review of 2020 Hurricane Season' https://bit.ly/3vZInow

CRS Report: Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Pledges by Selected Countries - Nationally Determined Contributions & Net-Zero Legislation' https://bit.ly/3pKUVzk #globalwater

CRS Report: 'Dam Removal and the Federal Role' https://bit.ly/3mqJbjg

CRS InFocus Report: '@usbr Water Storage Projects - Section 4007 of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act' https://bit.ly/3BadGxO #SWUSwater

It's @Water_MDPI, Vol 13, Issue 20 (Oct-2 2021) - 143 Articles https://bit.ly/3b9xk2p

Science, Medicine, Health, and Technology
Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management - 25 October 2021 https://bit.ly/3b77xrF

From @KNBC: @NASA Launches a Tool That Uses Satellite Images to Measure Water Loss in the U.S. West https://bit.ly/3vAQVCg #cawater #cowater #SWUSwater

From @AGU_Eos: Buzz Newsletter - 29 October 2021. Air Pollution Killed a Million People in Africa in 2019; Understanding Tremors Through Tree Rings; Melting Arctic Sea Ice Strengthens Tides; More! https://bit.ly/3Bw4Hao #globalwater

Southwest Water  #SWUSwater
From @AZWRRC: 'Weekly Wave' Newsletter - 29 October 2021. In this issue: MAR 5, IDWW, New Book, APW, Webinar, Dubai Expo, Photo Contest https://tinyurl.com/2z66dn5m #SWUSwater

66th Annual New Mexico Water Conference: 'Reality and Resilience: Planning for New Mexico's Water Future' Free Virtual Conference 26-28 October 2021. Tuesday Conference Session Starts Today at 10:30 MT https://bit.ly/3mbVr73 #SWUSwater

By @tonydavis987 in @TucsonStar: Fixing the ailing Colorado River: Where will the water savings come from? https://bit.ly/3B4aN1K #SWUSwater

From @CBSDenver From Latest Projection: Lake Powell Could Reach Critically Low Water Level By July https://cbsloc.al/30Q40Mx

Southwest US Water News Daily - 23 October 2021. https://bit.ly/3vBRRGq #SWUSwater

Streams, Wetlands, Dams, Lakes, and Ecosystems
In @capitalpress: Flood Irrigation Forever: Farmers provide crucial habitat for migratory waterfowl, recharge aquifer. https://bit.ly/3b8tWVv #PNWwater

In @csmonitor: Untaming a river: The stakes behind America’s largest dam removal - Klamath River. https://bit.ly/3C1RdEK

CRS Report: 'Dam Removal and the Federal Role' https://bit.ly/3mqJbjg

Texas   #txwater
From @witfnews: La Niña is coming. Here’s what that means for winter weather in the U.S. https://bit.ly/3baTf9q #NEWater

Free version in its entirety! (tnx @ProfessorJepson): Op-Ed in @dallasnews by@H2OWonk: If you think the Texas electrical grid is fragile, take a look at our #txwater infrastructure. https://bit.ly/3DQqmMe #SWUSwater

From @epheraldpost: Haunted Water? One @EPWater employee shares his paranormal encounters. https://bit.ly/3jdkNja #txwater

Visuals, Audios, Podcasts and Infographics
From @UCBerkeley Video: 'Introduction to Groundwater Contamination' https://youtu.be/Oqkd_cjSHwg #cawater

Water/Land Quality and Contamination
From @JPRnews: Clean Water Act protections restored after lawsuit https://bit.ly/3jvILWU #PNWater

Water Supply, Quantity, Reuse, Conservation, Infrastructure
From @AP: Beavers wreaking havoc on New York town’s water supply. https://bit.ly/3vVCj0B #NEWater

CRS InFocus Report: '@usbr Water Storage Projects - Section 4007 of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act' https://bit.ly/3BadGxO #SWUSwater

By @tonydavis987 in @TucsonStar: Fixing the ailing Colorado River: Where will the water savings come from? https://bit.ly/3B4aN1K #SWUSwater

From @CBSDenver From Latest Projection: Lake Powell Could Reach Critically Low Water Level By July https://cbsloc.al/30Q40Mx

From @KVPR Fresno County farmers at a ‘crossroads’ as drought, climate change limit water supply. https://tinyurl.com/yftcyt2z #cawater

From @KNBC: @NASA Launches a Tool That Uses Satellite Images to Measure Water Loss in the U.S. West https://bit.ly/3vAQVCg #cawater #cowater #SWUSwater

WTF?
From @epheraldpost: Haunted Water? One @EPWater employee shares his paranormal encounters. https://bit.ly/3jdkNja #txwater

"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Albert Einstein

G. Tracy Mehan III Reviews Books by Nordhaus and Yergin: Are Green Taxes the Answer to Pollution?

G. Tracy Mehan III, a frequent contributor to WaterWired, is executive director
for government affairs at the American Water Works Association and adjunct professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. He writes great book reviews (and other things) so when he sends me something I post it.

Here he reviews two books:

The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World  by Nobel Prize winner William D. Nordhaus and The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin. The review will be publsihed in the January/February 2022 issue of the The Environmental Forum. 

Download Nordhaus Yergin Review

The entire review is pasted below.

Over thirty years ago, as a callow youth running the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, I wrote an op-ed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch calling for the substitution of revenue-neutral pollution fees for existing taxes on income and productivity — which I believed made sense environmentally, economically, and politically.

Quoting from the likes of TEF contributor Robert Stavins, Peter Drucker, Jack Kemp, and Lester Brown in State of the World 1991, I reasoned that revenue-neutral fees would “internalize the externalities,” imposing costs on the party that generated the pollution, and could be offset by reductions in corporate or marginal tax rates and Social Security taxes. I did not use the term at the time, but they would generate a supply-side economic boost.

“Using these levies on pollution as a substitute for existing, counterproductive taxes on productivity, environmental costs can be incorporated into how America does business to forge a new environmental policy for the next century.” It seemed a surefire way to find common ground between the left and right sides of the political spectrum. It constituted a “no regrets” approach to dealing with a low probability but potentially catastrophic challenge regarding which I was unqualified to assess.

The “next century” is here, but the idea has not caught on, although the New York Times reports that Senate Democrats are now looking at a carbon tax in a desperate quest for revenues for their massive $3.5 to $5 trillion budget. This is not exactly what I had in mind.

Their plan includes rebates to mitigate regressive impacts for lower-income citizens, but there is no supply-side kick from reducing marginal tax rates, capital gains, etc. Quite the opposite in fact. Revenue-neutrality was the key to my proposed political compromise, but that seems out of the question. More on this subject below.

Given my youthful flirtation with pollution fees, I was pleased to take up Nobel Prize-winning economist William D. Nordhaus’s new book, The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World, a very useful introduction to and argument for market-based approaches, with an emphasis on “Green Taxes,” which he deems “the holy grail of public policy.” Moreover, “They are the holy trinity of environmental policy: they pay for valuable public services, they meet our environmental objectives efficiently, and they are nondistortionary” — assuming they are grounded in solid cost-benefit analysis. That first part of the trinity would indicate his lack of enthusiasm for the revenue-neutrality element I held near and dear decades ago.

Nordhaus, a Yale professor, surveys  the basic concepts pertaining to externalities (positive and negative), market efficiency and failure, public and private goods, cost-benefit analysis, and the English economist Arthur Pigou, from whom the “analytical thinking behind the Green movement originated.” The chapters are solid and useful for anyone unfamiliar with environmental economics — and often stimulating and informative even if you are not a stranger to the subject matter. 

Nordhaus also pursues newer ideas, such as green national accounting, sustainability, ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance), socially responsible investments, and the social cost of carbon. On this latter point, he seems to see a price of $40 or $50+ per ton as just the start of the bidding. This is the range established by the Obama and Biden administrations. He thinks there is justification, nay, necessity for as much as $200 per ton to effectively address the challenge of climate change, which he believes is “a major threat to humans and the natural world” and “the ultimate challenge for Green policies.” 

“Global warming is one of the defining issues of our time,” writes Nordhaus. Indeed, mitigating climate change or reducing carbon emissions will cost in the range of 2 to 6 percent of world income or “roughly, $2 trillion to $6 trillion annually at today’s level of income.” 

Regarding the Green New Deal, Nordhaus wants to be supportive of Representative Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), the prime movers, but he notes its failure to “include any discussion of using market approaches such as prices, taxes, or tradeable permits as instruments of environmental policy.” He argues that “the inconvenient truth” of climate policies “require aggressive price-raising measures, probably through carbon taxes.” 

Professor Nordhaus concedes that green taxes are not common, although congestion pricing in Europe has been successful. But even putting carbon taxes in place will not solve the problem without an international enforcement mechanism, given the global nature of the problem. Of course, the undoing of the Kyoto and Paris agreements on climate has been the free-rider problem which, get ready for it, game theory calls “a noncooperative free-riding equilibrium,” and that’s not good. He recommends something nearly as ambitious as a steep carbon tax: an international club or compact of nations which imposes tariffs on free-riding or non-complying nations which do not put on equivalent green or carbon taxes. This, too, is being discussed by Senate Democrats. 

Nordhaus is a towering intellect, but he has strong views and is not shy about expressing them. He hates Trump, despises the Republican Party, abhors Koch Industries, and detests Facebook. That said, he provides a respectful discussion of his agreements and disagreements with his fellow Nobelist, libertarian economist Milton Friedman, and points to several conservative economists who support carbon taxes as the most efficient approach to coping with a changing climate. This is true, to a point; but he fails to mention that several of them would look for cuts in other taxes to compensate for the carbon taxes. For instance, Arthur Laffer of the eponymous “Laffer Curve” wrote a famous letter to the editor to the New York Times clarifying his support for a carbon tax. 

“I am an economist, not a climate scientist, and in my professional capacity I don’t have the slightest idea whether global warming exists or not, or whether mankind has caused it or not. What I do think is true is that a carbon tax offset dollar for dollar with an income tax rate cut would be a positive component of tax reform,” wrote Laffer. “I oppose any carbon tax at any time if it’s not fully offset by a cut in marginal tax rates.” 

Considering the magnitude of the carbon taxes required to achieve any thing substantive by way of mitigating greenhouse gases, and the failure of the Clinton administration in the early 1990s to pass a BTU tax, a rough, imperfect surrogate for a carbon tax not discussed by Nordhaus, it would seem that political reality, if not sound economics, would justify another look at revenue-neutrality by Green economists. 

Given the global nature of the climate issue, readers may want to consult Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin’s latest tome, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, a sequel to his magisterial volume The Quest, which I reviewed for the Forum nine years ago. Climate is just one part of the geopolitics of energy but is even more pressing since Yergin wrote his previous book.

“‘Climate’ will be a profound determinant of the new map of energy,” maintains Yergin. And “the momentum of climate policies — powered by research and observation, by climate models, and by political mobilization and regulatory power, social activism, financial institutions, and deepening anxiety — will transform the energy system.”

“Net zero carbon” will be the great challenge of the decades ahead, “not just politically but also in how people live their lives and the costs of achieving it.” Today, the world depends on oil, natural gas, and coal for over 80 percent of its energy, “just as it did thirty years ago.” But the shift to a more pluralistic mix of energy sources is underway and will continue over the decades ahead while “disagreement rages, both within countries and among them, on the nature of the transition: how it unfolds, how long it takes and who pays.”

The myth of “peak oil” has now been replaced by the question of “peak demand” for oil and gas. When might we witness such a thing. “The actual answer,” writes Yergin, “will be determined determined by a concantenation of many forces — from what national governments and cities do in terms of regulation and incentives, to economic growth, to the availability of minerals, to the legal liability around autonomous vehicles and the security of the cyber systems controlling them, to the values and lifestyles of millennials, to social media, to the increase in air travel and petrochemicals, to geopolitical conflicts and social instability, to start-ups that have not yet started and new scientific and engineering breakthroughs, and so on.”

There is also the issue of “intermittency” as a challenge to continued expansion of solar and wind and the stability of the grid. “They can flood the grid with electricity when the sun shines and the wind blows, but then almost disappear when the day is cloudy or there is only a murmuring breeze,” notes Yergin. New technologies will be key (another reason Nordhaus argues for internalizing the externalities with a carbon tax), especially storage and battery technology, a stumbling block for wind and solar, as well as advanced reactors and a new generation of small reactors that might jumpstart carbon-free nuclear power.

And what of consumers? “In the absence of a carbon tax or significant incentives or higher gasoline taxes, how many consumers will willingly pay more for greener energy . . . Some will, some won't,” says Yergin.

Economics must, inevitably, for good or ill, give way to politics, and the politics of climate will preoccupy us for a long time to come. Contingency, not certainty, will be the norm.

Enjoy!

"Man is the cruelest animal. No, wait - 13-year-old girls." - apologies to Friedrich Nietszche (via The Funny Times)

G. Tracy Mehan III Book Reviews: Counter-Reformation and Redeeming the Administrative State

Nothing like an unexpected treat - two book reviews by G. Tracy Mehan III He is a frequent contributor to WaterWired, executive director for government affairs at the American Water Works Association and adjunct professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. His review will appear in the July/August 2021 issue of the The Environmental Forum. 

These are the books:

1) Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Admisnistrative State by Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule 

2) Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health by Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz 

The review PDF: Download Mehan In the lit

Here is Tracy's introduction and some of the discussion of Book #1:  

The heretics, recently inside the cathedral of the administrative state, were just barely excommunicated in the 2020 election. The Trump administration did not cotton to social, economic, or environmental regulation that it deemed inimical to its plans to revive the economy. To the outrage of some, the president issued executive orders to repeal two regulations for every new one promulgated and mandating, in effect, a regulatory budget for the federal Leviathan, something Congress has not legislated given its historic aversion to facing trade-offs.

Conservatives, and libertarians such as those at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, rail against the “Ten Thousand Commandments” and the “hidden tax” of America’s regulatory state. CEI argues that the aggregate cost of federal regulation is more than $1.9 trillion annually, the cost to each U.S. household exceeding $14,000 annually on average. This is 18 percent of the average pre-tax household budget, second only to housing.

While the Trump administration accounted for fewer pages in the Federal Register than Obama’s, it still averaged 66,490 pager per year versus 80,420, according to CEI.

A more ominous development for defenders of the administrative state, several justices on the Supreme Court are harboring heretical thoughts and writing openly about restricting deference to regulatory agencies, even policing congressional delegation of regulatory authority they deem overbroad.

A counter-reformation has emerged from defenders of administrative law and cost-benefit analysis, the latter having fallen out of favor among some on the political Right.

In Law & Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State, Harvard Law professors Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule seek to reassure legal and judicial critics of federal agencies and regulation who “converge, above all, on one major concern: that the administrative state threatens the rule of law.” They concur with many of the usual defenses of administrative law and agencies, such as the validity of congressional authorizations and market failures. Nevertheless, “neither of us believes that the status quo is perfect; we might favor quite significant reforms, while not always agreeing on the forms they should take.”

Sunstein and Vermeule offer the critics of Leviathan “a structure that can transcend the current debates and provide a unifying framework for accommodating a variety of first-order views, with an eye to promoting the common good and helping to identify a path forward amid intense disagreements on fundamental issues.” They share the optimism of Justice Robert Jackson regarding the success of the Administrative Procedure Act, who, writing for the Supreme Court in Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath in 1950, stated that this statute, after “a long period of study and strife,” “settles long-continued and hard-fought contentions, and enacts a formula upon which opposing social and political forces have come to rest.”

Moreover, “it would be a disservice to our form of government and to the administrative process itself if the courts should fail, so far as the terms of the act warrant, to give effect to its remedial purposes where the evils it was aimed at appear.”

 Sunstein and Vermeule describe the development of a body of judge-made law, without clear constitutional or statutory grounding, which has evolved over the years, yielding principles which they deem “the internal morality of administrative law.” For example, agencies must follow their own rules; courts should disfavor retroactive rulemaking absent clear congressional intent. Courts and judges have posited “surrogate safeguards” to secure the rule of law for those subject to regulation without undermining the basic legitimacy of administrative law. 

Let's jump to Book #2 and take it to the end.

Professors Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz celebrate cost-benefit analysis in Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health, hoping to gain lost ground with Republicans and populists, as well as “Republican elites,” whom they used to consider supporters of the practice. They are reacting to what they consider the apostasy of the more populist Trump administration. This book complements their 2008 book, Retaking Rationality: How Cost- Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, in which they sought “to intervene in what we believed was a stale debate between conservatives and progressives over the use of cost-benefit analysis in government decisionmaking.” Indeed, “the progressive opposition to cost-benefit analysis was ineffective and counterproductive.”

Livermore, he of the University of Virginia Law School, and Revesz of New York University School of Law, both recognized experts in the field, have come to bury Trump and not to praise him. The book focuses mostly on health and climate issues. Waters of the United States, for instance, does not appear in the index. Co-benefits, indirect benefits, social cost of carbon, domestic-only benefits, and many other issues are discussed in counterpoint to the positions of the previous administration.

No doubt Fullerian morality and cost-benefit analysis have greatly improved regulatory policy and law in the United States over the decades. But is that the end of the story? Jonathan Adler, another legal scholar, often asks, What are the opportunity costs of regulation? Try this thought experiment: Can we, for instance, afford an infinite or unlimited number of cost-beneficial rules? A prior judgment, a prudential judgment, legislative or executive, must be made before undertaking to regulate even before applying corrective practices such as cost-benefit analysis or judicial intuition. Often lost in this discussion, although no fault, certainly, of the proponents of the “New Coke,” is the liberty interest of the citizenry.

In his classic study Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville described “What Kind of Despotism Democratic Nations Have To Fear.” There he provided the prescient warning against overweening regulation: “Thus, after taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.” And Tocqueville never read the Federal Register.

Donald Trump, love him or hate him, did not lose re-election because of his regulatory reform or rollback program (choose your own term). It may be one of the reasons why the election was so close. Supporters of reasonable regulation should keep that in mind going forward if the legitimacy of the administrative state is to be restored.

Enjoy!

 "The truth isn't always beautiful, but the hunger for it is." - Nadine Gordimer

G. Tracy Mehan III Book Reviews: 1) 'A Better Planet'; 2) 'The War on the EPA - America's Endangered Environmental Protections'

Nothing like an unexpected treat on the last day of January 2021. G. Tracy Mehan III, a frequent contributor to WaterWired, executive director for government affairs at the American Water Works Association and adjunct professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University reviews two books in a piece that will appear in the March/April 2021 issue of the The Environmental Forum. 

1) A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, edited by Daniel C. Etsy.

2) The War on the EPA - America's Endangered Environmental Protections', by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley.

Note that Mehan served as Assistant Administrator for Water at the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001-2003. Bill and Rosemarie are good friends of mine.

I usually reproduce a few paragraphs of the review before posting its PDF. I won't do that here. I'll go right to the good stuff.

Download A Better Planet and a War on EPA

Enjoy!

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." -  André Gide