This American Life - Good Story about Colorado

This American Life- Hot in My Backyard

good stories about climate change that you might not have heard over and over and over, including one about summer 2012 in Colorado

low cost solar water pumps

helping third world farmers irrigate their crops.
less fossil fuels, more opportunity.

high plains aquifer is diminishing

Kansas farmers can no longer tend their fields. Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nebraska are affected as well. A new Dustbowl is coming. The graphic of the aquifer is telling.

climate refugees - melting ice

Newtok, Alaska will become unihabitable in the next decade. Its residents are the first climate refugees.

Shutoken Gaikaku Housui Ro, or the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel

Tokyo is unafraid of scale.

here and here, for starters. 

you must bring your own interpreter in case there is a flood and evacuations need to occur quickly.

courtesy

BASILICA CISTERNS OF ISTANBUL

gorgeous photos of an underground marvel

Justinian understood the beauty of infrastructure

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syria, politics and water

if the land can't produce food, people aren't going to put up with it for long.

“...the “Jafaf,” or drought, [is] one of the key drivers of the Syrian war. In an age of climate change, we’re likely to see many more such conflicts.

“The drought did not cause Syria’s civil war,” said the Syrian economist Samir Aita, but, he added, the failure of the government to respond to the drought played a huge role in fueling the uprising.”

mines and bacteria in old water

Oldest Water On Earth Found In Canadian Mine, May Hold Clues To Ancient Life

also, here 

crop insurance, politics and taxes in colorado

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/us/politics/record-taxpayer-cost-is-seen-for-crop-insurance.html?ref=us&_r=0

global warming is swamping us

New Levees for New Orleans

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2013/01/global_warming_is_swamping_us.html

safe drinking water elusive in california

Why Federal Efforts to Ensure Clean Tap Water Fail to Reach Faucets Nationwide

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/us/safe-drinking-water-elusive-for-many-in-california.html?hp&_r=1&

#wellwater

#nitrates

According to Jared Blumenfeld, the regional administrator of the E.P.A., nearly a quarter of all the small water systems in California are in the Central Valley. One-quarter of these dispense water that fails to meet all of the E.P.A’s health requirements

the world without water

now that we are at the end.

i want to share this with you. although it is most pertinent to graduates, i think all of you will find value in listening to these thoughts from david foster wallace.

this is water.

getting close....

Neat Idea..go green

http://www.houzz.com/photos/3669800/A-Sacred-Space-to-Bathe-by-siol-contemporary-bathroom-san-francisco