Archive for category: Water Issues
Regulating the Nation’s Drinking Water is Imperfect and Hard Work . . .

Tracy Mehan offers a review of the book, “Troubled Water; what’s wrong with what we drink,” authored by best...
Trump EPA ends Obama-era clean water rule. What Now? . . .

This week, the EPA finally drove a stake through the heart of the Obama-era clean water rule. While many...
“Nudging” versus “Coercion” – Balancing Environmental Protection with Liberty and Freedom

The recent controversy over the U.S. Government’s increased proclivity to secretly paw through the electronic communications and telephone records of Americans has...
We Need Cheap Water!

This past week, a group in California called Public Water Now, an anti-privatization movement aimed at re-municipalization of community...
Chesapeake Conservancy Advancing Smart Data for Smarter Decisions to Clean-up the Bay

Data, data, and more data! At times it seems we are drowning in data – information overload. But smart...
The Confounding Evolution of Federal Jurisdiction Over the Nation’s Streams, Rivers and Riffles

For those environmental policy wonks like me who simply can’t get enough of this stuff, the Congressional Research Service...
The World’s Water Crisis is Very Solvable – drop by drop

The statistics are sobering, nearly 700 million or 1 in 10 human beings on this earth lack access to...
GOP Leadership on the Defensive for Failing to Address Failing Water Infrastructure

The recent Fox News GOP debate had more lowlights than highlights, but one of the latter was a mention...
Flint Michigan Water Crisis – A Nonpartisan Disaster
The story of how Flint, Michigan’s children were poisoned with lead is long, complicated, and filled with human errors...
The Realm of Environmental Possibility – Good Samaritans to the Rescue

The tragic mining spill in the Animas River this summer has brought renewed vigor and attention on the need...
Mehan Urges “Creative Abandonment” to Great Lakes Commission

I share the following remarks by friend and great thinker, Tracy Mehan, with the Great Lakes Commission delivered on September...
Water is the New Oil – Price it Carefully

Water is indeed the new oil, with one exception – you need water to live. A very timely report...
Clean Water: America’s Great Unfinished Agenda
Sixty years ago, kids swimming in the Great Lakes could be up to their necks in water, look down,...
Congress Dips Its Toe Into Troubled Waters

On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee met to mark up the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Energy...
There Is No Such Thing As A “Rain Tax”

The water sector seems to be completely immobilized by the canard that a stormwater management fee tied to impermeable...
There Is No Such Thing As A “Rain Tax”

The water sector seems to be completely immobilized by the canard that a stormwater management fee tied to impermeable...
Water Infrastructure, Yes! New EPA Water Finance Center, No!
By Michael Curley, Guest Contributor Last Friday, the White House made a dramatic announcement about clean water on the...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane . . . no, it’s just some crazy kids providing water to the poor

Amazing death defying must see video of Sam Hardy and Nathan Jones of Project: Base doing some crazy wingsuit...
Global Groundwater Depletion – An overdraft of nature’s bounties posing economic collapse and regional instability

Water is the new oil, or so say those who understand the true value of water. This week 60 Minutes...
Lake Erie Bites Back with a Vengeance – Water Impacted by Harmful Algal Bloom

So what would you do upon waking one morning with coffee in hand, you turn on the news, and...
How to fill the water infrastructure investment gap in one easy lesson

We should all offer thanks for a new book by Environmental Law Institute visiting scholar Michael Curley, a former...
Natural Investment in Water Quality

A few weeks ago I posted an item regarding the release of World Resources Institute’s new report on natural...
Steady Progress in the ORB Means Improvements in the Gulf of Mexico

Many of you have probably detected a theme and undertone to this blog. That is, for us to fix...
How Safe is Our Drinking Water – Continued

I was asked to testify this week on behalf of United Water in a Senate hearing on the West...
How Safe is Our Drinking Water

I was interviewed yesterday by Elizabeth Shogren of NPR on the safety of tap water. Ms. Shogren was...
Peace Building in the Middle East – Let’s Begin with Water

Water is one of many contentious issues in the Middle East, a region where political, cultural, and religious unrest...
Protecting Water Resources While Safeguarding Against Government Overreach

Lots to cover on the water front this week, from the spill in West Virginia causing over 300,000 to...
Brent Fewell and I had the pleasure of participating in an interesting program on December 16th observing the 39th...
Water Infrastructure Investments – or the lack thereof

I’m linking here to an article in WaterWorld which reproduced my speech to the Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers...
Coping with Water Scarcity

Here is a link to my mildly optimistic article on America’s water supply challenges, Coping with Water Scarcity, Risk...
Water Might be Undervalued, But It Ain’t Overrated

Linking to a new EPA report hot off the press titled, Importance of Water to the U.S. Economy, which...
Health of Our Nation’s Streams – “B+” or “D-“

We’ve come a long way in the U.S. since our rivers used to catch on fire. Here’s a picture of...
Below is a sobering story of a yachtsman who, in a recent voyage from Australia to Japan, observed some disturbing...
Put this in the column of wacky Friday stories. In a story this week involving Portland, Oregon’s, drinking water...
Very encouraging news for the Pacific Northwest salmon fishery. Due to recent conservation efforts to restore beleaguered chinook populations, this...
By Brent Fewell I posted earlier this week on the enormous financial needs for restoring our water resources and infrastructure...
Connecting the Dots, Collecting the Drops

By Brent Fewell I love this picture – as it puts into perspective the importance of Earth’s finite water...
By Brent Fewell For water junkies like me, or those who care about environmental restoration, you might be interested...
EPA Goes Big with Air and Water Proposals

By Brent Fewell Toward the waning hours of every administration the pace of regulating at EPA picks up –...
EPA Scores Big Victory in Chesapeake Bay Decision

Last Friday, the U.S. EPA scored a big victory against industry opponents who challenged the Agency’s authority and efforts to...
More Chicken Wings, More Environmental Challenges

We have a lot of chickens in Maryland. And, in fact, we humans are outnumbered 1,000 to 1 along...
To EPA’s New Administrator – Don’t Forget About the Water

As many of you who read this blog know, I talk a lot about the water problems that still plague...
Conservation 2.0 – regulations alone won’t fix a broken earth

By Brent Fewell I spent some quality time this week in the wonderful city of Cincinnati, home of the...
China – A Growing Threat to the Earth

Listened to a sobering interview yesterday on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, with Craig Simons, author of the new book, The Devouring Dragon, which...
Oyster Fisheries and Families along Gulf Coast in Jeopardy

By Brent Fewell Thanks to my older brother, Scott, who forwarded the following story, A Fight Over Water, and to Save...
EPA Announces Formation of Technical Working Group to Review Ocean Acidification

By Brent Fewell As first reported by Amena Saiyid over at BNA, EPA announced this week that it plans to establish a...
Happy, Healthy Bugs Means Healthy Waters: continued strides to restore America’s waters

By Brent Fewell The following may be a wee bit granular for some of my readers, but hear me...
Emerging Markets are Helping Accelerate Environmental Restoration

Spent several days this week in Racine, WI, at the Johnson Foundation’s Wingspread, which the H.J. Johnson Family (think SC Johnson...
Global warming can be really really scary to kids . . .

By Brent Fewell A new survey reveals that nearly 60 percent of children fear global warming and the dire consequences,...
An Intriguing But Not-So-Bizarre Tale Involving EPA

A couple of months back I posted about a promising geoengineering development here, Save the Planet – plant a...
What is the Best Antidote to Environmental Irrationality?

The material well-being of a democratic society depends on its ability to rationally manage a nearly limitless variety of...
The Face of Conservation is Changing – Cheers to Today’s New Leaders

By Brent Fewell The pros and cons of living in Washington DC are receiving all sorts of invitations to political...
My Infinitesimally Small Contribution to Earth Day

By Brent Fewell Inspired earlier this month by the conservation work of Chris Bayley out in Oregon, and his...
Rain Rain Go Away . . .

By Brent Fewell One of the ideas behind creating this blog was to highlight some of the great conservation efforts underway...
Platoons for Conservation and the Healing Power of Water

By Brent Fewell Attended an awesomely moving tribute last evening to our Nation’s veterans. This marks the third year that...
Why legalize weed – just drink the water?!

By Brent Fewell A recent WSJ article highlights an increasingly important issue with which society is slowly grappling, drugs in...
Save a Fish – Paint a Storm Drain

By Brent Fewell Polluted stormwater runoff remains a pernicious and difficult-to-solve environmental challenge of our time. This is a storm...
The Bureaucratization of Environmentalism – can we survive good intentions?

Calling all Good Samaritans

We all know the parable told by Jesus regarding the sojourner who was robbed, pillaged, and left to die...
Nature’s Resilience – Chesapeake Bay and Signs of Hope

By Brent Fewell Promising news flowing from the Chesapeake Bay. U.S. EPA is reporting that pollutants, such as phosphorous,...
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