Wildfire Disturbances to Source Water Quality and Drinking Water Treatment Abstract: The recent rise in wildfire activity has raised concerns among water utilities that rely on forested watersheds, vulnerable to wildfire and strained by climatic pressures. Wildfire can quickly transform forest floors, char vegetation and soils, and create a landscape susceptible to post-fire erosion and […]
The Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee (PBAC) is pleased to announce that the invited speaker this year is Sandra Postel, the director and founder of the Global Water Policy Project, co-creator of Change the Course, and a National Geographic Society Fellow. Her new book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity, would be great to […]
Healing the Enlightenment Rift: Rationality, Spirituality, and Shared Waters Abstract: Water management is, by definition, conflict management: Whether in the Western US or internationally, competing stakeholder interests include domestic users, agriculturalists, hydropower generators, recreators, and environmentalists – any two of which are regularly at odds, and the complexity of finding mutually acceptable solutions increases exponentially as more stakeholders are involved. Add international […]