Blog: Pipeline
Openly Materialistic
When it comes to water sustainability, materials matter and so does the process of selecting the best, brightest, and greenest of products and services. Take pipes, for instance. Different shapes, sizes, and materials with different strengths and [Continue Reading]
Upstream Winning
Improving and sustaining watersheds and communities always needs some upstream thinking and doing. This year's 3 winners of the U.S. Water Prize are succeeding in different ways and contexts but all share a willingness to think outside the "box"-- wh[Continue Reading]
"Cut and Dry"
Federal water budgets have never been as robust as water boosters would like, even during the brief and heady days of 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulation, but things are about to get leaner and meaner. Looming sequestration cut[Continue Reading]
"One Water" Resolution
I'm not keen on New Year's Resolutions (especially the ephemeral ones that come and go faster than desert rain, which I happen to love) but 2013 deserves at least one good and lasting Resolution. Here's mine: I resolve to partner with individuals a[Continue Reading]
Noel Net Loss
As friends and family gather for the holidays, I'm reminded of certain water policy rituals that once played out, like clockwork in December in the nation's capital, and I'm asking myself this question: Whatever happened to the "no net loss" of wetla[Continue Reading]
Weatherizing Water
Hurricane (turned Superstorm, turned painful lesson) Sandy underscores some of the basic challenges in the ever-swirling world of water, weather, and climate change. Through it all, water managers must find practical ways to cope with evolving condit[Continue Reading]
Scare City
Water stress can strike fear into the hearts of communities, businesses, and ecosystems but a publicly-supported, scientifically-defended reuse movement can ease the anxiety and pave the way for sustainability even in the face of scarcity. On Octo[Continue Reading]
Hippie Infrastructure
The greening of gray and the softening of hard has come a long way in the last 40 years, but this "nature-based," green infrastructure movement still has a ways to go. It got a boost, though, in September in Washington DC and it's going to get anot[Continue Reading]
Food for Thought
There’s no better time than now for the American public to appreciate the “water-energy-food nexus,” or as I like to call it, the “liquid triangle of life”. To farmers across the U.S., particularly the Midwest, it’s painfully obvious: The[Continue Reading]
Sparrows and Canaries
Water managers and innovators are only as good as the data they have and the tools they can use, and when it comes to today's toughest challenges--such as nutrients--they need all the help they can get to monitor, model, assess and predict. The U.[Continue Reading]
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