Water Education Foundation
This is just one post in the Website News Category
Click here to view all posts

Weekend highlights: a $10K bet, DiFi’s letters, the Colorado River, and more

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on December 22, 2008 at 7:57 am

Weekend highlights, for those of you who were too busy preparing for the holidays to keep up with the fast paced, ever changing California world of water….

In Sunday’s Stockton Record, Jeffrey Michael, an economist at the University of the Pacific, thinks the PPIC has it all wrong and is willing to bet $10K he’s right.

In Sunday’s Sacramento Bee, Laura King Moon of the State Water Contractors wrote a commentary saying it’s not only the export pumps causing problems. Diane Feinstein apparently has the same thought in mind, as she’s written two letters to officials asking them to address Sacramento’s wastewater treatment plant’s discharges and the proliferation of invasive species.

The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Sunday paper included a comprehensive article on the future of the Colorado River, while a development in Arizona wins approval to use groundwater to irrigate a golf course.

Wired Science is reporting on a study which determined that ocean waves are getting bigger and stronger; good news for surfers but bad news for shorelines.

Weekend odds and ends: It’s how you operate the canal that matters, working landscapes for forestry and ag, limiting growth by water policy, water lecture series online, the earth as art, and check out the *new* water cycle!

Aqua Blog Maven needs some more peeps!

Holiday note: DWR Water News and the BC Water News may take a break over the holidays, but rest assured, all you water news junkies, Aquafornia will be open for the holidays, seven days a week, with news posted in most cases by 8am!

December 22, 2008 · Filed Under Website News

Comments

Leave a Reply