"Rebooting Urban Watersheds"
"Activists restore blighted San Francisco Bay Area creeks -- and impoverished communities."
Source: High Country News, 06/09/2009
Water & Oceans
Glacial Rebound Affects Great Lakes Levels
"Even today the Great Lakes landscape is bouncing back from the glaciers that retreated 10,000 years ago. A key question researchers recently sought to answer is whether that has anything to do with fluctuating lake levels."
Source: Great Lakes Echo, 06/09/2009
"S.S. Badger Coal Ash Dumping Surprises Many"
A historic ferry that carries cars and passengers across Lake Michigan is still dumping ash from its coal-fired engines into the Lake -- legally.
Source: Muskegon Chronicle, 06/08/2009
"Learning To Live With Less Water"
"Droughts are nothing new for the Western US. But lately, even some parts of the country surrounded by water have gotten a taste of droughts. Rebecca Williams reports as our population grows, some experts say we're going to have to learn to live with less water."
Source: Environment Report, 06/05/2009
Feds Cut Water to California
"Farmers and urban users will see about a 5% to 7% annual reduction from actions intended to help salmon and other fish."
Source: LA Times, 06/05/2009
El Nino Could Develop as Hurricane Season Opens
"The El Nino weather pattern, which can bring global weather chaos such as droughts and floods, could develop within weeks, [NOAA's] Climate Prediction Center ...ssid."
Source: Reuters, 06/05/2009
"Crime Scene Cleanup" in Kelly AFB Toxics Case
New evidence indicates the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry fails to protect communities from dangers such as the now-disappearing plumes of toxic groundwater carrying cancer-causing chemicals far beyond the Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio, TX.
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Suit Aims To Stop Logging Near Rio Grande
Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging a National Fores logging project in Colorado that would impact the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
Source: ENS, 06/03/2009
Book Shelf, Book 1 - Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People And The Environment
Exploring the legacy of dams and human delusions of grandeur
DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Jacques Leslie
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $15.75
Reviewed by NANCY BAZILCHUK
A dam may not be forever, even if constructions like the Hoover Dam are expected to survive for a thousand years. A dam's environmental and social impacts, though, are enormous, extensive and essentially irreversible.
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"Deadly Water -- Black Falls: Water Sources, But None To Drink"
Drought is driving some people in the Navajo Nation to drink water that is contaminated with uranium and other contaminants.
Source: Gallup Independent, 06/02/2009
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