Watershed Management Council
Advancing the Art and Science of Watershed Management Since 1987

  Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)     www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/CDRI   

Timescapes Timelapse: Learning to Fly from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

www.mdpi.com/journal/water/  

From the first article in the first issue: 
John Bridgeman
School of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

Abstract: That water is the world's most precious natural resource cannot be in doubt. Increasing demands for water due to growing population, increasing urbanization and industrial development exemplify its vital role in human life. Water touches us all, from the commercial private sector which either generates or uses the product potable water; through national and international government agencies (policy makers and regulators who attempt to maintain and improve our environment, whilst also making provision for the effective and safe treatment and distribution of potable water, and the collection, treatment discharge of our wastewater); to the general public whose lives depend upon the availability of sufficient quality and quantity.

"Fisheries Restoration and Science in a Changing Climate"

                        March 10-13, 2010, Redding Convention Center

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Lloyd G. Carter's provocative article about the Westlands Water District in California's Great Valley.

Get it here: pubs.usgs.gov/atlas/geologic/ 

The Shape of the Universe

Howard Reingold

If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two, and a key concept in fields as unrelated as vascular surgery and software design.

The Buddha knew this, and so do neurologists, database programmers, and mythologists.

And he talks about water and restoration. We have arrived gang.www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB 

Jamie Workman's book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, is being released today. It's next on my 'must read' list.