{"id":1077,"date":"2015-01-12T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:02:07","slug":"heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.trend.az\/casia\/uzbekistan\/2348593.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/en.trend.az\/casia\/uzbekistan\/2348593.html', 'Uzbekistan to allocate $3B to mitigate consequences of Aral Sea disaster']);\" >Uzbekistan to allocate $3B to mitigate consequences of Aral Sea disaster<\/a> (Trend News Agency) \u2013 describes how funds will be used for projects between 2015-2018.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/45697408.cms?\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/45697408.cms?', 'New irrigation scheme to link villages to water sources\u00a0']);\" >New irrigation scheme to link villages to water sources\u00a0<\/a> (The Economic Times \u2013 India) \u2013 contingent solutions to deal with uncertainty and complexity. Describes a proposed plan that includes linked macro-level (river-linking) and micro-level (village level water irrigation infrastructure) projects and promotes innovative water conservation\/irrigation measures at the farm-level.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/12\/the-politics-of-drinking-water\/384081\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/12\/the-politics-of-drinking-water\/384081\/', 'The Politics of Drinking Water ']);\" >The Politics of Drinking Water <\/a> (The Atlantic) \u2013 a long-form article discussing the development of American drinking water across attitudes, infrastructure and politics from tap water to \u201cbottled-water backlash.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalwaterforum.org\/2014\/12\/09\/assessing-global-water-quality-the-data-challenge\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.globalwaterforum.org\/2014\/12\/09\/assessing-global-water-quality-the-data-challenge\/', 'Assessing global water quality: The data challenge']);\" >Assessing global water quality: The data challenge<\/a> (Global Water Forum Blog) \u2013 inconsistent data reporting, missing information contribute to the challenge of assessing and addressing water challenges (focusing on wastewater).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060011209\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060011209', 'Speaking for the trees, lawyer pushes unconventional doctrine']);\" >Speaking for the trees, lawyer pushes unconventional doctrine<\/a> (Energy Wire, EE Publishing) \u2013 Legal case in Pennsylvania may be testing ground for \u201crights of nature\u201d &#8212; ecosystem-centric (rather than human-centric) environmental perspective.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/naturejobs\/science\/articles\/10.1038\/nj7533-231a?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nature.com\/naturejobs\/science\/articles\/10.1038\/nj7533-231a?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews', 'Outreach: Speak up for science']);\" >Outreach: Speak up for science<\/a> (Nature) \u2013 \u201cWhether publishing contentious findings or defending evidence, the right tone is essential.\u201d Advice for presenting scientific information more effectively in various contexts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wrrc.arizona.edu\/phoenix-store-water-tucson?\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/wrrc.arizona.edu\/phoenix-store-water-tucson?', 'Phoenix to Store Water in Tucson']);\" >Phoenix to Store Water in Tucson<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/wrrc.arizona.edu\/publications\/awr\/arizona-water-resource-winter-2015\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/wrrc.arizona.edu\/publications\/awr\/arizona-water-resource-winter-2015', 'WRRC Newsletter']);\" >WRRC Newsletter<\/a>) \u2013 an example of a water sharing arrangement between cities in Arizona, U.S.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/water\/water-loss-reduction.asp?\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/water\/water-loss-reduction.asp?', 'Cutting our Losses']);\" >Cutting our Losses<\/a> (NRDC) \u2013 interactive map to compare how water loss reporting is approached in different U.S. water systems; paired with relevant links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Contributed by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam', 'Shafik Islam']);\" >Shafik Islam<\/a>, Amanda Repella, Mark P. Smith, and Mahdi Zarghami<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week&#8230; Uzbekistan to allocate $3B to mitigate consequences of Aral Sea disaster (Trend News Agency) \u2013 describes how funds will be used for projects between 2015-2018. New irrigation scheme to link villages to water sources\u00a0 (The Economic Times [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heard-read-seen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}