Resources for Covering Freshwater
Water Blogs
Michael Campana’s “Water Wired”
Robert Osborne’s “Water Crunch”
National Geographic Water Currents
On Twitter
SRI Water and Climate Twitter List, including participants from the SRI
NOAA NCEI Climate –@NOAANCEIclimate
Climate Central –@ClimateCentral
Metcalf Institute –@MetcalfURI
Freshwater Science (Journal) –@FreshwaterSci
Peter Gleick – @PeterGleick
Michael Campana –@WaterWired
UWM Freshwater Sci –@waterscienceUWM
Society for Freshwater Science – @BenthosNews
UN-Water – @UN_Water
Jay Famiglietti –@JayFamiglietti
King’s Water –@KingsWaterKCL
Tom Yulsman – @yulsman
Emily Green –@chanceofraincom
Tara Lohan – @TaraLohan
Amena Saiyid – @amenasaiyid
Brett Walton – @WaltonWater
Climate change primer for those new to the beat…
“What We Know” (The American Association for the Advancement of Science)
“Climate Change: Evidence and Causes” (The National Academy of Sciences & Royal Society of the UK)
“The Discovery of Global Warming” (The American Institute of Physics)
“Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet” (NASA)
“What’s Really Warming the World?” (Bloomberg)
“State of the Climate: Extreme Events” (NOAA’s Climate.gov)
“Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (Special Report by the IPCC)
Reporting on Climate Adaptation, A Guide for Journalists (Reynolds Journalism Institute)
From the SRI
- Follow #WaterClimateSRI for live updates from the SRI and see our Twitter list.
- Presentations from the SRI
- Photographs from our trip to the Ichetucknee River and Ginnie Springs
Caveat: This list doesn’t cover the waterfront, rather, it pulls together water resources recommended as particularly helpful by journalists who cover the water beat.
Key People on the Water Beat
- Click here for a list of experts, by topic area.
Key Online Resources
- Alliance for Water Efficiency
- American Water Works Association (AWWA)
- AQUASTAT: FAO’s global water information system
- Ceres (water management)
- Chesapeake Bay Water Data (and webcams, via interactive map)
- Columbia Water Center
- EPA’s Calendar of Climate Change and Water Events (upcoming conferences, training, webinars, etc.)
- EPA’s Discharge Monitoring Report Pollutant Loading Tool
- EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (can search by watershed)
- EPA’s Water Quality Standards: Regulations and Resources
- Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
- Groundwater Resources Association of California
- IGRAC (International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre)
- International Association of Hydrogeologists
- National Association of Water Companies (NAWC)
- National Drought Monitor (updated on Thursdays)
- National Ground Water Association
- National Network of Sea Grant Programs (find your state Sea Grant office)
- NOAA Harmful Algal Bloom Operational Forecast System (HAB-OFS)
- NOAA Monthly Climate Call (3rd Thursday of each month, 11am EST)
- Surging Seas (ClimateCentral’s sea level rise maps and tools)
- UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
- U.S. Drought Portal
- USGS Florida Water Science Center (real-time aquifer levels)
- USGS Publications Warehouse (free access to USGS reports)
- USGS Water Quality Data
- USGS Water Resources (Quantity)
Reports
- Addressing the Energy-Water Nexus, The National Academies 2013-14
- American Meteorological Society’s “Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective” Reports (published yearly, 2011-2014)
- Estimated use of water in the United States in 2010, U.S. Geol. Survey Circular 1405
- Ground Water and Surface Water: A Single Resource, U.S. Geol. Survey Circular 1139
- Groundwater depletion in the United States (1900−2008), U.S. Geol. Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5079
- State of the Climate in 2014,Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol 96, No 7, July 2015 (published every summer)
- The World’s Water, Vol. 8, 2014 (The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources, by The Pacific Institute)
- Water-level changes and change in water in storage in the High Plains Aquifer, predevelopment to 2013 and 2011-13, U.S. Geol. Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5218
Scientific Papers
- Gleeson, T., Befus, K.M, Jasechko, S., Luijendijk, E., Cardenas, M.B. 2015. The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater. Nature Geoscience, Advance Online Publication.
- Havens, K.E. & Paerl, H.W. 2015. Climate Change at a Crossroad for Control of Harmful Algal Blooms. Environ. Sci. Technol. 49 (21), pp 12605–12606.
- Vörösmarty, C.J. et al. 2010. Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature 467, 555-561.
Water Journalism
- Circle of Blue
- EJToday (daily headlines from the Society of Environmental Journalists)
- Ensia Water
- The Arizona Republic (Brandon Loomis on the Southwest Water Crisis)
- The Great Lakes Echo (produced by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University)
- Water Deeply (curated California water news)
Stories published by SRI Participants
Stories published since the SRI:
- Drummond, Cynthia. 21 November 2015. “Everywhere, it’s always all about the water.” Westerly Sun.
- Drummond, Cynthia. 21 November 2015. “Scientists, shellfish growers wary of rise in ocean acidification.” Westerly Sun.
- Treadway, Tyler. 9 December 2015. “$124 million water projects won’t help Indian River Lagoon” TC Palm.
Stories published before the SRI:
- Bayona, Natalia. High and Dry: The search for water in the Front Range – and a conservation plan that works.
- Brzozowski, Carol. Story for Water Efficiency magazine on whether to rehab or replace pipes. (The American Society of Civil Engineers gives our nation’s water infrastructure a ‘D’ grade).
- De Villegas, Roberto Diaz. A two-part video about De Villegas’ experience paddling down the Apalachicola River with RiverTrek in 2012, shortly after the collapse of the oyster fishery, and a story about his return to RiverTrek with his 4-year old son.
- De Villegas, Roberto Diaz. Research into the decline of the oyster reefs, on the WFSU blog.
- George, Christy. A story on climate change and its impact on salmon, in rivers and the ocean.
- Green, Amy. An NPR story on Kissimmee River restoration, a major success story in Everglades restoration, but one of the few.
- Saiyid, Amena. Plastic microbeads in waters prompt regulatory efforts.
- Stecker, Tiffany. Do we need a better yardstick to measure severe droughts?
- Straub, Lana. Contamination and its effect on the community.
- Straub, Lana. How storm surges affect flooding.