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Wiley-Blackwell Extends Discount Offer to AWRA Members
In addition to the recently announced 25% discount on all of their entire catalog of products, Wiley-Blackwell is now offering a 30% discount on dozens of water resources titles and products. To take advantage of either of these discounts:
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The Media of Water:
Stories of general interest about water and water issues in the media.
Posts on Sustainable Water Planning, the ongoing saga of the ACF Basin, water policy & more.
Water Advocates popped for a full-page ad in the New York Times to get the word out about why access to safe water is so important. |
Water Crisis in Yemen
NPR story on the water crisis in Yemen.
National Geographic's photos of the largest freshwater fish.
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Have you seen something in the news that we should share? Email me the link. |
Check Out AWRA's
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AWRA Associate Members, conference sponsors and exhibitors are featured in AWRA's new Virtual Exhibit Hall. One of the many membership benefits of the new Associate membership category is visible presence on the AWRA website and an extensive listing in the AWRA Virtual Exhibit Hall. If your company would like to be included in the AWRA Virtual Exhibit Hall, information is here.
Visitors can ramble the virtual halls of the exhibit hall without leaving the comfort of their homes or offices! Use the alphabetical listing, or do a keyword search to find what you need. |
AWRA Job Awareness Program
Where the Water Resources Jobs Are |
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AWRA Associate Members receive a significant discount on this invaluable service!
With more than 20,000 hits this month, you can be sure your position is being seen by the right people.
If you have position you'd like to have featured in this column with a link to your posting on the AWRA Job Awareness Program, send me an email.
View Open Positions
A wide variety of disciplines representing open positions in the private sector, governmental agencies, and educational institutions. If you're a water resources professional looking for a new job, start here.
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Connections
The E-Newsletter of the
American Water Resources Association
Keeping You Connected
November 2009 |
AWRA has made the big time! Imagine my surprise as I read the passage below from a recent novel. It's meant to establish the credibility of the environmental lawyer engaged by the main character, and it comes from the most recent novel written by the 1995 winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for his first novel.
"He was a partner at a Seattle firm called Berman Piper with 'extensive experience in civil litigation, land use, and environmental law' and had been named in '98 by Washington Law & Politics magazine, a "Super Lawyer." There was photograph of a slim, nearly drawn man about 60 wearing a blue blazer and graying at the temples; he was a member of the American Water Resources Association, the Downtown Seattle Association, the Planning Association of Washington, and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties."
For a chance at a rare and beautiful AWRA t-shirt tell me the name of the book that the passage comes from and who the author is. I will draw one lucky winner from those with correct answers, so please also include your t-shirt size! This is a tough one ... here's one final clue: the author hails from Seattle where this novel is set.
BTW, if you are not yet a member of AWRA and are looking to establish your own credibility, join today and get the rest of 2009 free.
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Terry Meyer
AWRA
P.S. Please mark your calendars for the just approved 2010 AWRA Summer Specialty Conference on Tropical Hydrology and Sustainable Water Resources in a Changing Environment. It will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 30 - September 1, 2010. The Call for Abstracts will be online soon. That's all I have at the moment, but it's enough to get it on your calendars and in your 2010 budgets!
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Preliminary Program Coming Soon !
GIS & Water Resources VI
Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel * Orlando, FL
March 29-31, 2010
Keynote Speaker
Jack Dangermond, Founder, ESRI
The keynote address will be followed by a plenary panel discussion on strategic information technologies for water resources. The Plenary Panel includes Jack Dangermond; Carol Wehle, Executive Director of South Florida Water Management District; Katherine Lins, Chief of the USGS WRD Office of Water Information; David Maidment, UT Austin; and Catharine Van Ingen, Microsoft Research. These leaders from government, industry and academia will set the tone for our best GIS conference yet.
(Room Rate REDUCED to $139 single/double!)
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Mark your Calendars!
The Delaware and New Jersey State Sections
of the American Water Resources Association
Loews Philadelphia Hotel * Philadelphia, PA
November 1-4, 2010
The Call for Abstracts will be online Feb 2010. Mark your calendar (and add it to your 2010 budget!), bookmark this link, and watch this space for more info. |
Water Resources Information
Atlas of Transboundary Aquifers
The worldwide ISARM (Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management) Initiative is an UNESCO and IAH led multi-agency effort aimed at improving the understanding of scientific, socio-economic, legal, institutional and environmental issues related to the management of transboundary aquifers. Since its start in 2000, ISARM has launched a number of global and regional initiatives. More than 200 transboundary aquifers have been identified. Inventories undertaken in the Americas, Asia, Africa, South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus, and Middle East have been already published separately. This Atlas presents a compilation of available data. Download it at the link.
GWI Briefing E-Newsletter
In October 2009 Global Water Intelligence launched a weekly e-newsletter called GWI Briefing. The newsletter provides a weekly snapshot of what is going on in the world of water and desalination and is free to those who sign up for it on the Global Water Intelligence website. The newsletter also provides project tracking updates to Global Water Intelligence subscribers. Click on the link to subscribe.
The Sustainable Society Index was developed by the Sustainable Society Foundation to integrates the most important aspects of sustainability and quality of life of a national society in a simple and transparent way. Consisting of 22 indicators, grouped into 5 categories and using data from public sources, the SSI was initially developed for 150 countries and published in 2006. In 2008 the first of two-yearly updates was published with results for 151 countries for which the SSI could be calculated. The resulting SSI scores on a scale of 0 to 10 allow a quick comparison between countries as is shown on the world map. See how we're doing at the link.
Water Challenge 2030
Charting our water future is a report of the 2030 Water Resources Group, which was formed in 2008 to contribute new insights to the increasingly critical issue of water resource scarcity. It shows that while meeting competing demands for water will be a considerable challenge, it is entirely possible to close the growing gap between water supply and demand. This report provides greater clarity on the scale of the water challenge and how it can be met in an affordable and sustainable manner. You can download the report and see a brief video about the project at the link. |
AWRA State Section Activities
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Development of Oregon's Integrated Water Resources Strategy
Phil Ward, Director, OWRD & Dick Pedersen, Director, ODEQ Lucky Lab Beer Hall| Portland, OR December 16, 2009, 6-9 PM
Dinner (on your own) starts at 6 PM, Program begins at 6:45
Madison Marriott West * Madison, WI March 4-5, 2010 Submit Abstracts by: December 7, 2009
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Non-AWRA
Calls for Abstracts |
Submit Abstract by: January 8, 2010
UNESCO * Paris, France December 6-8, 2010 Submit Abstracts by: March 30, 2010
Holiday Inn * West Yellowstone, MT September 28-30, 2010 Submit Abstracts by April 1, 2010 | |
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Other Water Resources Conferences
The New Green Economy: Aligning Science, Education, and Markets
Ronald Reagan Building * Washington, DC
January 20-22, 2010
Hilton Head Island, SC February 21-25, 2010
Portland, OR
February 22-26, 2010
Bloemfontein, South Africa
March 1-5, 2010
Boston Marriott Cambridge * Boston, MA March 7 - 10, 2010 |
International African Water and Sanitation Exhibition and Congress
Denver, CO April 25-29, 2010
Charleston Civic Center * Charleston, WV
May 3-5, 2010
Institut Beaumont * Lyon/Provence, France June 7-11, 2010
Watershed 2010 Management ConferenceMadison, WI August 23-27, 2010
Holiday Inn * West Yellowstone, MT September 28-30, 2010
The Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor * Baltimore, MD November 14-17, 2010
UNESCO * Paris, France December 6-8, 2010
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