Urban Water 2012 – call for papers
Prof. Stefano Mambretti is the co-chairman of Urban Water 2012, the 1st International Conference on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems to be held 25-27 April 2012 at New Forest, UK. He asked me to give notice for the call for papers. From the conference web-site: Introduction Water systems in the [...]
Water rationing caused pipe breaks in LA
During the summer of 2009 a large number of water pipe breaks occurred in Los Angeles. Apparently,ֲ there were 101 blowouts in the summer of 2009 (July, August and September) compared to 42 in 2008, 49 in 2007 and 48 in 2006. As a consequence of the public request for an explanation an independent investigation [...]
WDSA 2010 – first call for papers
The University of Arizona and the Technion are pleased to announce the 12th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis conference (WDSA 2010) to be held September 12-15, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. (WDSA2010.org) Milestone Date First Call for Papers November 1, 2009 Second Call for Papers December 1, 2009 Abstracts Due February 1, 2010 Decision on Abstracts [...]
A few quick links
The American Museum of Natural History in New-York has an exhibition called Water: H2O = Life. The same museum show an animation of the story of the New-York water system. Liquid Assets: Liquid Assets, a ninety-minute documentary, tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: water, wastewater, and stormwater. These systems ג€” some in the ground [...]
Make water not war
Stanley Weiss in an editorial in the New York Times wonders if the next war in the Middel East will be over water and not land? He is one of the believers that the water crisis in the Middle Ease can be solved with a large carrier bring water from Turkey to the region. Weiss [...]
Who owns the rain or is it illegal to harvest rainwater?
The Los-Angeles Times has a interesting write up about water rights in Colorado: Every time it rains here, Kris Holstrom knowingly breaks the law. Holstrom’s violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets underneath the gutters of her farmhouse on a mesa 15 miles from the resort town of Telluride. The barrels catch rain and snowmelt, [...]
Free online Water Management Summit – A full day of interactive webcasts
A free online water management summit will be held on April 21st 2009, starting on 7pm: This summit features presentations by scientists, academics, and business leaders addressing the increasingly important issue of water management. For businesses, efficiency will cut costs and promote environmental awareness, and for all, this summit will provide insight into best practices, [...]
Flammable Water
Some time ago a heard a talk by a safety specialist who recommended not to shower when an electric water heater is turned on. Well, so folks over at Ft. Lupton, Colo. are showering with the lights off. Its for the romance but for safety since they have flammable water! As it turns out, gas [...]
Flush Facts for Super Sunday
The EPA posted a nice fact regarding toilt flushs during the Super Bowlֲ next week: Consider this: On Super Sunday, February 1, about 90 million people sit down to footballג€™s biggest game. If all of these viewers got up to use the restroom at halftime, the result would be about 300 million gallons flushing in near [...]
Flying fire hydrant kills man
Humberto Hernandez, of Oakland, never saw what hit him It was a 200 pound flying fire hydrant knocked into the air when an SUV driver lost control and her vehicle struck the hydrant propelling it into the air and the the back of the head of Hernandez. After nailing Hernandez in the back of the [...]
