I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux.

This isn't the first time the government and capitalist systems have attacked human rights and tribal rights, and it won't be the last. Fighting for water rights is the right thing to do.

Totem carries unifying spirit into protest camp

VIDEO: Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray

Native Activist Winona LaDuke: Pipeline Company Enbridge Has No Right to Destroy Our Future

water in the ground is worth the wait

A behind-the-scenes battle to divert L.A.'s storm water from going to waste By: Joe Mozingo March 11, 2016

 
This article provides a simple and clear explanation of how culverting rivers makes them behave differently, the value of aquifers, and an abbreviated history of how water has been treated in southern California over the last century. 

It is great to see municipalities taking on the issue of aquifer recharge seriously.

what is the problem with paying for infrastructure??? UPDATE

Again, tunnel #3 in NYC is being delayed, although it remains a "high priority" to the De Blasio administration. This is shortsighted.  Right now, people pay a great deal more for their wifi than they do for water. Maybe if the priorities shifted, so would the markets. Apparently, all of the administrations of New York for the past 80 years have been gamblers, and so far so good, but not forever.

De Blasio Postpones Work on Crucial Water Tunnel By JIM DWYERAPRIL 5, 2016

Why New York City’s Waterworks Works  By EMILY S. RUEBAPRIL 1, 2016

 UPDATE: the money for the tunnel has been re-added to NYC's budget. De Blasio claims it was a mistake: 'The real reason the $336 million was pulled, Mr. de Blasio said, was that “we didn’t think that the estimate was accurate.” Now the $336 million has been replaced — with $357 million.'

De Blasio Adding Money for Water Tunnel in Brooklyn and Queens By JIM DWYERAPRIL 6, 2016

City Of Water: Can an intricate and antiquated maze of tunnels continue to sustain New York?  By David Grann

How New York Gets Its Water 

water information is almost as valuable as water itself

The Water Data Drought

By CHARLES FISHMAN

I like where this op-ed is going. Not only does the infrastructure physically need to be visible, the ways in which we use that infrastructure need to be visible as well. We are addicted to data. To only have every fifth year of data to work with, how are agencies and designers supposed to improve water efficiency and efficacy? 

"Water’s biggest problem, in this country and around the world, is its invisibility. You don’t tackle problems that are out of sight. We need a new relationship with water, and that has to start with understanding it."

isfahan is missing its water

The Empty River of Life

whoa

Water Level Rising at California's Folsom Lake, As Captured By USGS Satellite

Folsom Lake increases water outflow despite CA drought

Folsom Lake Dam, CA Opens Flood Gates for First Time in 4-Years | Lake Oroville up 20′ in 5-Days…

suburbia is great grading problem

here is a link to bldgblog to these crazy pictures of graded land for new planned communities. totally freaky. photographs by sergio belinchón, from his series "suburbia".
the whole post is amazing.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/-earthworks.html