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Is Stream Restoration Working?

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:27:10 +0000

Here in the Pacific Northwest, stream restoration is a growth industry (purely anecdotal – I have not done a study). The big issue is restoration as it relates to the salmon fishery: trying to undo the mess we’ve made of the environment. I’ve been told that the Columbia River produced something like 20 million adult [...]

JAWRA October 2009 Highlights JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association Volume…

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Carefree?

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:27:04 +0000

Vibrations, energy fields, and vortexes are stock-in-trade in the snake-oil business, owing probably to the fact that in the ill-defined contexts in which they typically appear, they are basically meaningless but convey enough mystery to appeal to the credulous public. I won’t waste much time on this one, because none of that nonsense makes any sense.

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Green Water

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:27:04 +0000

By the way, you have spent almost $6,500.00 on your rental equipment which you indicate is less than satisfactory. Renting equipment is a great deal… for the water treatment dealer, but bad for the consumer!

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Which Doctor?

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:27:08 +0000

It is not my intent to speak badly of nextScaleStop, but you asked the question and I have answered it. In fact, I have heard that nextScaleStop is no longer using the media that they used after switching from the DVGW-512 media. Yet, in their Watts One-Flow literature, they continue to refer to the DVGW-512, which is no longer applicable and more than a tad misleading.

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Watering the Southern High Plains Aquifer

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:27:08 +0000

In May 2009 I posted an item Saving the Ogallala (aka High Plains) Aquifer, in which I reported on an article from the March 2009 Scientific American.
The southern portion of the High Plains Aquifer is well-known for drastically lowered groundwater levels because of unsustainable pumping. Schemes have been proposed to recharge the aquifer, generally involving pumping water from [...]

Aquadoc’s Film Debut: Guaraní Aquifer Self-promotion alert! You may recall my WaterWired 18 April post …

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Ten Laws of Western USA Water

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:27:08 +0000

Thanks to Lloyd G. Carter for sending these my way. They are the product of Hugh Holub, a water attorney down Arizona way, who has given me permission to post these. You can also find them on his WWW site.
Holub was once asked to give a talk summarizing Western water law to non-lawyers, and this resulted. [...]

Two Reports: 1) Western Water Management Case Studies; 2) Western Water in the 21st Century Today, like all days, is Western Water Day! Two blockbuster…
Western Governors’ Association DC Workshop: Drought, Climate, and Water The Western Governors’ Association and the Western States Water Council…

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Pelican NatureSoft

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:27:02 +0000

So, right out of the chute, Pelican is giving you erroneous information, which begs the question “If what they say in the beginning is not true, what part do you believe?”

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Will a Saltless Water Softener Work?

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:27:04 +0000

Unless you have low pH, a water softener (using salt) will not shorten the life span of the water heater, copper and brass plumbing potable water system and some appliances. Absolutely not! In fact, it will dramatically increase the life of these things. There is no credible evidence to suggest that a water softener shortens the life of these appliances.

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Wally’s Warming World Warning

admin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:27:07 +0000

Time for a shout-out.
Thirty-five years ago, on this date in 1975, renowned geoscientist Wallace (Wally) Broecker published a seminal paper in Science titled,“Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?“. To say that Broecker was prescient is an understatement.
Here is the abstract:
If man-made dust is unimportant as a major cause of climatic change, then [...]

NAS Members on Climate Change and the Integrity of Science A group of National Academy of Sciences members, led by Peter…
Whom To Believe: Climate-Change Deniers or World’s Scientific Societies? Dr. Peter Gleick’s recent post is a wonderful summary of…

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Voodoo Volumetric Analysis: Relative Volumes of the Gulf of Mexico and Dispersant

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:27:11 +0000

A Tweet rolled across my screen the other day. I can’t recall the exact verbiage but it was something like this:
Gulf volume: 643 quadrillion gallons; dispersant volume: 1.5 million gallons. What’s the problem?
Sounds like the Tweeter had a great point: the volume of the Gulf is so huge relative to the volume of dispersant that [...]

To Save the Gulf, Free the Mississippi River Historian Douglas Brinkley, author of the excellent chronicle of Hurricane…
Gulf Oil Spill: An Open Letter From Coastal Scientists to Adm. Thad Allen Ken Reid sent me this letter. It’s from twenty-one coastal…

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