{"id":1093,"date":"2015-01-26T21:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2015-01-26T21:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:30:22","slug":"heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-6\/","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\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingcircular.veolia.com\/en\/innovations\/tweet-me-river\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.livingcircular.veolia.com\/en\/innovations\/tweet-me-river', 'Tweet me a river']);\" >Tweet me a river<\/a> (Living Circular) &#8211; details a project in which gauged rivers in the U.K. are given their own twitter account, providing updates about river conditions several times a day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsecuritybeat.org\/brokenlandscape\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.newsecuritybeat.org\/brokenlandscape\/', 'Broken Landscape: Confronting India&#8217;s Water-Energy Choke']);\" >Broken Landscape: Confronting India&#8217;s Water-Energy Choke<\/a> (Environmental Change and Security Program) &#8211; highlights the current struggle between coal mine owners facing\u00a0new government regulation, and those who live downstream where rivers have run dry taking away their livelihood, food, and drinking water.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/04\/18\/water.school.children\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/04\/18\/water.school.children\/', 'For schoolchildren, where&#8217;s the water?']);\" >For schoolchildren, where&#8217;s the water?<\/a> (CNN.com) &#8211; U.S. children may not always be able to easily access the drinking water available at their school.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/books\/how-china-s-policy-affects-asia-s-great-rivers-1.1441192\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/books\/how-china-s-policy-affects-asia-s-great-rivers-1.1441192', 'How China&#8217;s policy affects Asia&#8217;s great rivers']);\" >How China&#8217;s policy affects Asia&#8217;s great rivers<\/a> (Gulf News) &#8211; book review includes M. Buckley&#8217;s <em>Meltdown in Tibet<\/em>, which discusses the implications of China controlling five major Asian rivers which originate in Tibet, and the effect it has on those who live downstream.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2214581814000457\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2214581814000457', 'A case of groundwater depletion in Balochistan, Pakistan: Enter into the void']);\" >A case of groundwater depletion in Balochistan, Pakistan: Enter into the void<\/a> (Journal of Hydrology) &#8211; a December 2014 article about the lack of action taken over the depletion of groundwater in Kuchlagh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran-blog\/2015\/jan\/23\/iran-lake-urmia-drying-up-new-research-scientists-urge-action?CMP=twt_gu\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran-blog\/2015\/jan\/23\/iran-lake-urmia-drying-up-new-research-scientists-urge-action?CMP=twt_gu', 'Lake Urmia: how Iran&#8217;s most famous lake is disappearing']);\" >Lake Urmia: how Iran&#8217;s most famous lake is disappearing<\/a>\u00a0(The Guardian) &#8211; details the\u00a0shrinkage of Iran&#8217;s most famous lake as it is now about 90% of what it was in the 1970s, and many worry that the lake may have reached a tipping point.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs40518-014-0022-5\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs40518-014-0022-5', 'Water for Energy: Inconsistent Assessment Standards and Inability to Judge Properly']);\" >Water for Energy: Inconsistent Assessment Standards and Inability to Judge Properly<\/a> (Current Sustainable\/ Renewable Energy Reports) &#8211; a report from January 2015 argues that\u00a0there are many inconsistencies in evaluating the\u00a0impact of energy production on water resources.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthmagazine.org\/article\/100-year-flood-fallacy-return-periods-misleading-communication-flood-risk\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.earthmagazine.org\/article\/100-year-flood-fallacy-return-periods-misleading-communication-flood-risk', 'The &#8216;100-year flood&#8217; fallacy: Return periods misleading in communication of flood risk']);\" >The &#8216;100-year flood&#8217; fallacy: Return periods misleading in communication of flood risk<\/a>\u00a0(Earth Magazine)-\u00a0the term &#8216;100-year flood&#8217; provides people with a false sense of security as averages and taken as absolutes, and in a changing climate how it is necessary to think of these events in new ways.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/soapbox\/article6686850.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/soapbox\/article6686850.html', 'Work is just beginning for California water policy']);\" >Work is just beginning for California water policy<\/a> (Sacramento Bee) &#8211; despite new legislation allocating money to help California handle the current drought,\u00a0action needs to be taken to rethink and transform water infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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, Gregory Sixt, and Tahira Syed<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\u2026 Tweet me a river (Living Circular) &#8211; details a project in which gauged rivers in the U.K. are given their own twitter account, providing updates about river conditions several times a day. 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