- A new online journal, Water, has this nice review paper: "Market-Driven Solutions to Economic, Environmental, and Social Issues Related to Water Management in the Western US"
- Good background on the Kern County Water Bank, and the effort to take it back from farmers/corporations that bought it from the State.
- Read Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water, which includes "The daily average for water gathering in 1997 across East Africa was 91.7 minutes daily, triple the time spent three decades earlier." [p. 23]
- "The Golden State’s agricultural earnings have reached historic highs during the so-called three-year drought"
- "In sub-Saharan Africa, the proportion [of rain-irrigated land] is 94 percent... where water storage infrastructure is least developed. The report cautioned against over-reliance on single solutions such as big dams, and said an integrated approach combining large- and small-scale storage was a better strategy..."
15 September 2010
Speed blogging
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That YubaNet article about the farm receipts is kind of a mess. Somebody did a really crappy job of assembling a document with multiple authors and totally botched the editing.
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