Blogs

Are you familiar with or part of the blogosphere? We'd like feature whatever trickle of water and wastewater news that may be out there among the millions of web journals. So please click here to let me know of any water-related blogs that you think our Gentle Readers might enjoy. (What's a "blog"? How do I start one?)

• Just add water
  (Tothelastdrop)"The United States has transformed the semiarid western side of our continent with water. Beautiful flora and millions of people now live where once was desert and scrub brush. But are our actions sustainable? Here you'll find a smattering of the many news articles related to water management here in the West." Thanks to Matt Clark with the Urban Water Institute for this one.
   

• Rocket science fuel
  (Ritestuff.blogspot.com) "A key study on the safety of perchlorate in the water is coming under attack." Thanks to Charles Lembke with the LADWP for this one.
   

• What is in your water?
  (Watersecretsblog.com) "Every municipality is required to perform, report and maintain safe water quality by the U.S." Thanks to Justin M. Scott Coe with Integrated Resource Management, LLC for this one.
   

• City of Victorville takeover?
  (Notakeover.info) "A local citizen group web site that has blog inputs on the specific issue of whether or not the City of Victorville should takeover two independent county water districts."
   

• A radical solution for environmental pollution
  (ScienceBlog.com) "Nature abounds with examples of bacteria that can thrive in extreme situations — surviving on toxic chemicals, for instance. In a paper published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, University of Michigan researchers show how some bugs manage to do that: by harnessing other potentially harmful chemicals known as free radicals to degrade the toxins they live on.