{"id":1183,"date":"2015-03-17T03:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T03:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-12-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-17T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:38:22","slug":"heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-13\/","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.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/03\/science\/earth\/study-links-syria-conflict-to-drought-caused-by-climate-change.html?\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/03\/science\/earth\/study-links-syria-conflict-to-drought-caused-by-climate-change.html?', 'Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change']);\" >Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change<\/a> (New York Times) &#8211; Describes a new report in PNAS that suggests extreme drought in Syria was most likely a factor in the violent uprising that began there in 2011.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.circleofblue.org\/waternews\/2015\/world\/infographic-warm-snow-california-oregon-washington\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.circleofblue.org\/waternews\/2015\/world\/infographic-warm-snow-california-oregon-washington\/', 'Infographic: Too Warm to Snow in California, Oregon, and Washington']);\" >Infographic: Too Warm to Snow in California, Oregon, and Washington<\/a>\u00a0(Circle of Blue) &#8211; Article and accompanying infographic describe the locations and impacts of reduced snowpack due to increased winter temperatures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/news\/releases\/2015\/03\/11\/free-online-course-cu-boulder-tackles-water-issues-american-west?sthash.sTHBB2Ym.mjjo\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/news\/releases\/2015\/03\/11\/free-online-course-cu-boulder-tackles-water-issues-american-west?sthash.sTHBB2Ym.mjjo', 'Water In The Western States MOOC ']);\" >Water In The Western States MOOC <\/a>(CU-Boulder News) &#8211; <em>Water in the Western United States<\/em>, CU-Boulder\u2019s latest massive open online course, or MOOC, will unfold over four and a half weeks, allowing students the opportunity to explore the scientific, legal, political and cultural issues impacting water and climate in the West.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/on_the_river_nile_a_move_to_avert_a_conflict_over_water\/2855\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/on_the_river_nile_a_move_to_avert_a_conflict_over_water\/2855\/', 'On the River Nile, a Move to Avert a Conflict Over Water ']);\" >On the River Nile, a Move to Avert a Conflict Over Water <\/a>(Yale e360) &#8211; Article on GERD and progress toward an international agreement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EJQf1vtxH58&amp;feature=share\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EJQf1vtxH58&amp;feature=share', 'The Nile Project &#8211; Full Performance (Live on KEXP) ']);\" >The Nile Project &#8211; Full Performance (Live on KEXP) <\/a>(You Tube) &#8211; 42 minute video of full musical performance from the Nile Project. For more background see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/09\/14\/347733976\/the-nile-project-producing-harmony-in-a-divided-region\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/09\/14\/347733976\/the-nile-project-producing-harmony-in-a-divided-region', 'The Nile Project: producing harmony in a divided region']);\" >The Nile Project: producing harmony in a divided region<\/a> (NPR Weekend Edition).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/water.tallyfox.com\/groups\/general-water-wastewater-news\/blog\/young-entrepreneurs-building-water-startups\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/water.tallyfox.com\/groups\/general-water-wastewater-news\/blog\/young-entrepreneurs-building-water-startups', 'Young Entrepreneurs Building Water Startups']);\" >Young Entrepreneurs Building Water Startups<\/a> (Tally Fox Water Network Groups) &#8211; Short profiles of two startups\u00a0focused on water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Contributed by Margaret Garcia,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam', 'Shafik Islam']);\" >Shafik Islam<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and Amanda Repella<\/em><\/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 Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change (New York Times) &#8211; Describes a new report in PNAS that suggests extreme drought in Syria was most likely a factor in the violent uprising [&#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-1183","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\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1186"}],"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=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}