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Odds and ends: Salmon vs smelt, bloggers react to drought, Judge Wanger a workaholic, snow to water ratios, another great website for water news, check out the water jet pack, and awesome aerial shots of the Delta & more

Posted by: Maven on January 31, 2009 at 8:22 am

Something other than drought news to lead the blog today…. let’s have some fun!

Salmon over smelt: Relaxing the Delta outflow rules to be considered, says Spreck Rosekranz of the EDF’s On the Waterfront blog: The request will be officially made by the Water Operations Management Team (WOMT), comprised of representatives of fishery and water project agencies. They are expected to cite the extremely low storage volumes in principal State Water Project and Central Valley Project reservoirs, and explain that it is essential to conserve cold water in those reservoirs to protect endangered salmon later in the year. It could also mean a little more water for cities and farms. Check it out here from On the Waterfront: Smelt vs. salmon: Agencies to consider proposal to relax Delta outflow rules

Bloggers react to the drought – here’s a sampling: California’s water woes are of our own making, says a realtor from Redding, while the Leakbird blog says it’s both a service crisis and a resource crisis.  California’s turning into a dust bowl, says the Calitics blog, while the Nature Conservancy wonders what it will take to get us to change our water wasting ways, and this blogger, well he’s just pissed.

Judge Wanger shatters the criteria required of Federal court judges, notes the Fresno Bee’s political notebook: As judge on senior status, for instance, Wanger was to have presided over five trials this past year. Wanger’s number: 48. His trial hours were 16 times the expected amount for a judge on senior status, and he closed 25 times the number cases expected of him. Wanger works nights and weekends, as do the other two district judges. Check it out from the Fresno Bee’s Political Notebook: Wanger’s caseload shows Fresno needs for more federal judges

All about snow to water ratios: The CoCoRaHS blog (not a breakfast cereal, mind you) tells you all about it:  The standard that most people learn in a science class is 10 to 1, written was 10:1.  This means every ten inches of snow typically melts to about an inch of water. It is ok to use that standard for classroom purposes, and I think in real life more times than not that comes out to be true for many.  BUT — location, time of the year, temperature, the source of water and the upper air connection to that source of water — all these factors play a big role in what the ratio will actually be. Check it out here: Snow to Water Ratios

Does reading Aquafornia leave you thirsting for more? This website has to be the mother of all water news sites, putting together links from numerous water news sources, including Aquafornia & more. Check it out here: All the top water news Also, check out the newly redesigned Revive the San Joaquin website.

Check out the Water Jet Pack: who doesn’t want a toy like this?

For a less elegant version and a few chuckles, check out this Japanese video: click here.

From the beautiful to the bleak:  Beautiful aerial shots of the Delta taken just days ago from former Modesto Bee photographer Adrian Mendoza.  Check it out here:  Logo en la Cabeza from Amenphoto.  Contrast the Delta to the bleak pictures from the Salton Sea from the Apertura Photography blog:  Salton Sea

January 31, 2009 · Filed Under Aquafornia News & Exclusives

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2 Responses to “Odds and ends: Salmon vs smelt, bloggers react to drought, Judge Wanger a workaholic, snow to water ratios, another great website for water news, check out the water jet pack, and awesome aerial shots of the Delta & more”

  1. Abendigo on February 1st, 2009 5:47 am

    Hi, nice roundup on water Aquafornia. This is Ben @ LeakBird. We actually didn’t say “the water crisis is more service than resource crisis”.

    We said that it’s BOTH resource crisis AND service crisis. And cited examples of people leaning more toward one or the other.

    There’s obviously a huge service crisis in California, however, as David Zetland has been key in pointing out.

  2. Aqua Blog Maven on February 1st, 2009 6:12 am

    I stand corrected.

    Thank you, Ben!

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