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Rejected video for World Water Day post
Mar. 22nd, 2025 01:41 pmThis didn't fit two of the themes in The United Nations on glacier preservation, the theme of this year's World Water Day, so I'm posting it here.
I shared and linked to videos I show my students in The Wall Street Journal explains 'Why America’s Groundwater Is Disappearing'. I don't have one about groundwater contamination, so I might show this one, too.
Rejected video for World Water Day post
Mar. 22nd, 2024 01:50 pmIt was too short and too repetitive for International water crises for World Water Day from CNA, VOA, and PBS.
Video for a postponed post
Feb. 24th, 2024 01:41 pmI was thinking of writing a post around this video, but decided to write PBS Terra explains 'How An Ancient Ocean Shaped US History' instead. Maybe later.
I was thinking about writing about other environmental issues, like water, before I settled on this year's official theme for Beat plastic pollution on World Environment Day.
Postponed video for World Water Day post
Mar. 22nd, 2023 06:22 pm
Added video to Great Salt Lake post
Oct. 21st, 2022 01:50 pmI added this video to PBS NewsHour on Great Salt Lake shrinking during the current drought because it really helped tell the story I wanted. Not often I do that!
Unused image for second water use post
Sep. 28th, 2022 07:26 pmI used a pie chart instead of this bar chart in PBS Terra asks 'What Will Life Look Like as MAJOR Rivers Run Dry?'
Unused image for water use post
Sep. 27th, 2022 10:34 pmI was thinking of using the following image in Vox asks and answers 'Who's really using up the water in the American West?', but I decided I had written enough.
Video about water I might replace
Mar. 22nd, 2022 12:56 pmI was thinking of showing my students the video I featured in Vox and Netflix's 'Explained: World's Water Crisis' for World Water Day instead of this one next week. Maybe I can show both. Here's to hoping.
A video that connects two of my posts
Feb. 22nd, 2022 04:03 pmThis video mentions the studies that formed the bases of American West in worst drought during past 1,200 years and One foot sea level rise by 2050 according to U.S. government study and connects both as part of climate change, but I didn't find it good enough to use for either, so I'm posting it here.
I have hot water again
Jan. 8th, 2022 04:39 pmAfter I came home last night, the hot water pipe thawed out. My wife and I kept the water flowing all night long to avoid a repeat. We'll do it again tonight, despite it keeping my wife up last night.
An old-fashioned standup bath
Jan. 7th, 2022 01:05 pmI kept the cold water tap open in the bathroom open last night, but didn't think the hot water would need it. I was wrong. My wife had to bring a bowl of hot water from the kitchen so I could take what passed for a shower before going into work today to prepare my syllabi for next semester. BTW, I'm teaching remote because of the pandemic. Wake me up when 2020 (finally) ends.
Cut off video for California drought post
Jul. 26th, 2021 05:32 pmI composed California's drought causing a crisis in agriculture and rural communities before I found the following video. I could have written a follow-up post, but decided to write Diversity one of the themes of the Outstanding Commercial nominees at the 2021 Emmy Awards instead.
I decided not to use the following video for Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and others likely to be charged for roles in Flint Water Crisis because I found one from Flint instead of Grand Rapids. Sometimes my decisions are that simple.
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The latest on the Flint Water Crisis
Jun. 29th, 2019 01:35 pmTwo links about the (hopefully temporarily) dropped charges in the Flint Water Crisis.
All charges dismissed without prejudice against defendants in Flint Water Crisis cases
Prosecutors hear from residents of Flint at town hall
All charges dismissed without prejudice against defendants in Flint Water Crisis cases
Prosecutors hear from residents of Flint at town hall
Nova on Flint for World Water Day
Mar. 22nd, 2019 02:11 pmAt Crazy Eddie's Motie News, I posted CNN's 'Dirty Water: Danger from the Tap' on World Water Day. The video I used reminded me of Cassini and Voyager both winners at the Emmy Awards to "write about [the PBS 'Nova' episode] 'Poisoned Water'...in a future post." Here is a promo clip of that episode.
In 2014, a cost-cutting exercise saw the city of Flint, Michigan change its water source, and begin drawing from the Flint River. But because of that same penny-pinching, the water was not properly treated, meaning more than 100,000 residents were exposed to dangerous levels of lead. Even once measures to remedy the situation belatedly got underway, the people of Flint are not expected to be able to use their tap water again until 2020.
In 2014, a cost-cutting exercise saw the city of Flint, Michigan change its water source, and begin drawing from the Flint River. But because of that same penny-pinching, the water was not properly treated, meaning more than 100,000 residents were exposed to dangerous levels of lead. Even once measures to remedy the situation belatedly got underway, the people of Flint are not expected to be able to use their tap water again until 2020.
