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5/12/2012 2:24:53 PM
In the work I’m doing now on the Colorado River Basin for my book, I’m trying to get beyond simply extrapolating supply and demand curves and then running around with my hair on fire. The hair-on-fire thing is easy to do, because the current supply and demand curves, as the Bureau of Reclamation frankly noted [...]
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4/29/2012 5:14:24 PM
Much has been made of the analogy that climate change is like steroids for our weather. But what if we’ve got the thing backwards? Here’s baseball sage Tim McCarver: It has not been proven, but I think ultimately it will be proven that the air is thinner now, there has been climactic changes over the [...]
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5/12/2012 8:09:10 AM
I went back two weeks ago to the Las Conchas fire zone, where an unprecedented blaze tore through New Mexico ponderosa forests that will never be the same – “Not in our lifetimes,” as one forester put it. My story: During a daylong hike last week across an area that once was dominated by ponderosa [...]
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4/28/2012 4:16:30 PM
The authors acknowledge that the result when they looked at the effect of piñon die-off from the Four Corners drought a decade ago seems counterintuitive: Basins with the most tree die-off showed a significant decrease in streamflow over several years following die-off, and this decrease was not attributable to climate variability alone. The result
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5/11/2012 2:11:28 PM
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4/28/2012 11:53:56 AM
Humans here in the West use and therefore value water for basically three sorts of reasons: for domestic use (cooking, bathing, drinking, flushing away waste) for economic purposes (agriculture being the most obvious, but also things like computer chip manufacturing) for environmental purposes (water in the river to look at and enjoy, for recreatio
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5/11/2012 1:53:53 PM
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4/23/2012 8:07:05 PM
Phil Isenberg, head of California’s Delta Stewardship Council, gets to the heart of the matter in the discussion of the possibility that California needs more water storage capability: The council agrees with Assemblyman Logue that water storage is a critical component of any solution to meet the state’s water supply and environmental n
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4/23/2012 7:55:36 PM
There’s this old joke. Two economists are walking down the street when one points to the ground and says, “Look, a ten dollar bill!” The second economist replies, “That’s crazy. If that was a ten dollar bill someone would have picked it up already.” I love it because there’s a really interesting dynamic in
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4/23/2012 4:37:33 PM
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5/7/2012 2:08:51 PM
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April 23,2012 --Transcript of the Apr. 23, 2012, edition of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast.....
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5/3/2012 7:17:29 AM
Jeffrey Michael runs the numbers and suggests the marginal cost of water from a new Peripheral Thingie (canal or tunnel beneath/around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta) will be prohibitive for agricultural users asked to foot a share of the bill: According to the draft BDCP, the marginal cost of new water the contractors get out of [...]
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4/20/2012 6:18:22 PM
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5/2/2012 7:39:08 PM
A: When April 1 falls on a Monday. That’s the conclusion of a clever bit of work by Tom Pagano, former NRCS forecaster who used to do the Rio Grande forecasts before he went on to bigger and better things. “Bigger and better” has included a stint in Australia and a current world tour of [...]
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4/20/2012 8:36:23 AM
Ed Kandl from USBR: If you want the one-word synopsis, it’s going to suck pretty bad. Related posts: River Beat: Updated Forecast Colorado River: January Forecast Worst since the Dust Bowl? Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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4/19/2012 10:00:39 PM
In southern California, the Metropolitan Water District is cranking up the rate meter, squeezed in the conservation v. cost vice: As more people conserve water, MWD sells less water, and that means revenues go down. But MWD’s costs of delivering that water remain essentially the same: Thus, prices go up. Related posts: Capillaries and the [..
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4/19/2012 7:02:26 PM
I’d love to have been in on the meetings that lead to this paper. “I agree, we really need a better way to get to the question of whole-ecosystem metabolism and basin-scale carbon budgets. Lava Falls will be critical.” Related posts: Go ‘Topes A remarkable bit of science policy ignorance Desal Tough Nut to Crack [...]
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