Water is a precious gift of nature, essential for human survival. Water is required for basic human needs such as drinking, cooking and bathing, for irrigation to grow crops, for hydropower to produce energy, for industry and for the environment. Water is also an inherent component of an ecological chain on which all life-supporting systems depend. Especially for the Nepali society water from the ... read more >>

Even in the Dominican Republic I cannot miss Emily Green's The Week That Was. Helps me stay in touch with all the good stuff happening in the water world. El gringo viejo did take some time to enjoy the beach in Puerto Plata with las Dominicanas bonitas.
But on 4 September I did learn some local water lore from Ing. H. Domingo Rodriguez, who is the regional director for the DR's equivalent of ... read more >>

Children displaced from flooded areas return to their village after flood water receded in Aazakhel Nowshera, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan on 05 September 2010. The United Nations called on 24 August for governments to provide at least 40 heavy-lift helicopters that can carry critical emergency supplies to some 800,000 Pakistanis trapped by floods. More than 17 million people have bee ... read more >>

Cookie Simpson was born in a tent in the Dog Head Reserve, near the shores of Lake Athabasca. Her access to clean drinking water was as good as any city kid's, but it didn't involve a tap. Instead, she scooped water right from the lake with a cup.

"The water was so clear and blue. When you looked down you could see the bottom."

A lot has changed in her 60 years. A major ... read more >>

Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes seems to have a habit of hitting the xenophia-flavored cool aid. April's recent post covered his ranting about how promoting bike riding is part of a world government conspiracy designed to steal personal freedoms. At the time I thought 'well...it might win him some Tea Party-style votes and he won't lose too many bike riders who otherwise wou ... read more >>

Most downloaded papers of Journal of Hydrology (April-June 2010) ... read more >>

The Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association built the first public drinking fountain in London in 1859, as an answer to some of the pressing problems of their times. Drinking fountains are also part of the answer to some of our own problems.

The anti-bottled water people have succeeded in making nearly everyone aware that bottled water is a problem, and the numbers of pe ... read more >>

In case you missed it, here is the State Department's Water for the Poor Act 2010 Report to Congress. I spent a few hours of my my first full day in the Dominican Republic at the National Botanical Garden, quite a beautiful spot. Ana Maria Peralta (shown at right) and Alexandra Barceló were my guides. As Ana Maria is a specialist in natural resources, she rattled off the scientific names of ... read more >>