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Photo of Figure 3 from paper: Spatial stability of water quality: (a) at each sampling date in the entire watershed; and (b) versus the number of sampled sites for each sampling date across the 5 focal parameters. Solid horizontal lines in each panel indicate the threshold between high and low spatial stability of rss = 0.50

📄 Recent study explored trade-offs in sampling density vs frequency for the spatial stability of surface water quality patterns over time, across over 250 monitoring sites sampled over two decades.

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#hydrology #WaterQuality ⚒️ 🧪

Finland Drained Its Peatlands. He’s Helping Bring Them Back Tero Mustonen has led a successful effort to restore roughly 80 areas of ecologically critical peatlands across his native Finland. In an interview, he talks about the importance of bringing Indigenou...

"Along the way, we have lost approaching half of our wet peatlands and their wildlife — more than 12 million acres. With little government action, Snowchange’s Landscape Rewilding Programme is the only systematic effort to restore them on private lands."

#Wetlands

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University of California, San Diego Research and Development Engineer Greg Sandstrom takes measurements with a Coriolis air sampler at the river hotspot. Photo credit: Beatriz Klimeck/UC San Diego.

Newly published research indicates that poor water quality can drastically affect air quality—an observation with important implications for global waterways.

Read more about how pollution in the Tijuana River impacts nearby communities: https://bit.ly/3KuchfZ

Once abundant Lake Erie fish to be stocked Saturday at three Cuyahoga River sites The sturgeon population in Lake Erie was depleted starting in the 1800s and now efforts are underway to bring it back.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will release 2,000 fingerling sturgeon into the Cuyahoga River, hoping that in 15 to 20 years they will come back to reproduce.

New paper on winter limnology of Lake Ontario now out- “Unique thermal mixing patterns in Lake Ontario revealed by novel year-round observations of thermal stratification”

Open access link at aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Friant Lawsuit Over Sinking Canal Advances, but It May Be Individual Farmers Who Pay The ongoing case against a Tulare County groundwater agency for allegedly not paying its share to fix the Friant-Kern Canal will continue,

Case against a Tulare County groundwater agency for allegedly not paying its share to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal will continue.

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Federal Water Tap Weekly water news in the United States

EPA extends deadline for coal power plants to comply with water pollution standards.

The Federal Water Tap newsletter gives you access to the latest U.S. government water policy trends: www.circleofblue.org/water-tap/
#CircleofBlue #WaterNews #WaterPolicy #EPA

DATA CENTER SERIES: The Impact on Minnesota Waters Residents worry that the data center will overshadow their own water needs, especially in the summer months. Tract developers convinced city officials to let data centers use municipal water supplies ...

Well said, Carrie Jennings, Freshwater Policy Director reflecting on the policy landscape for data centers.

“what we currently lack is a very clear path for stakeholders to figure out who to talk to” when it comes to standing up for their communities.”

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91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.

"Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million, providing ecological benefits including improved water quality, enhanced biodiversity, and better water retention."

This morning, during some chaos, this zipped by on one of my feeds. Maybe it was here? Hard to overstate how much this made my day.
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Surprisingly, most Finnish actors in the forestry field agree that there shouldn’t be clear-cutting logging in wetlands.

It causes GHG emissions and ruins the water quality and adjacent ecosystems.

#Forestry

The Bode Foundation is funding 'Water-conscious cities of the future'

💧 Maria Warter is launching her project ‘Water-conscious cities of the future’. Her junior research group wants to investigate how urban waters respond to human intervention and how restoration measures improve biodiversity, water quality and urban life. 🌿
More: www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/bode...

A new study finds over 70% of Illinois wetlands lost protection after the Supreme Court’s rollback of the Clean Water Act.

Floodplain forests—vital for flood control, water quality, and climate resilience—are most at risk.

Illinois needs to pass a state law protecting wetlands.

Izaak Walton League launches fundraising campaign for Iowa water quality monitoring • Iowa Capital Dispatch The Izaak Walton League of America has started a campaign to raise funds for a water quality monitoring program.

The Izaak Walton League of America’s Iowa division has started a grassroots campaign to raise funds for a water quality monitoring program, formerly funded by the state, at the University of Iowa, Cami Koons reports.

The environment here is stunning, but the work is serious—understanding the local water quality is vital for the community and our planet's health. Big thanks to the locals for their support!

#WaterResearch #NomeAlaska #Sustainability #EnvironmentalScience #DrRogerTipton #CleanWater

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals America’s Big Agriculture Problem Is Getting Worse

Iowa's water quality issue—and how the Iowa Farm Bureau has shaped the state's lack of regulation—is now national.

Bloomberg's piece is paywalled, but you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KXO...

New data reveals widespread contamination in New Zealand's waterways Two-thirds of monitored river sites and half of groundwater bores were affected by faecal contamination, while two-thirds of lakes were rated in poor or very poor condition.

Shocking but not surprising the way this government hands the dairy industry a licence to pollute👇

More than 3500 rivers, lakes and estuaries across Aotearoa are under pressure, with new data showing widespread faecal contamination and poor water quality — especially in areas of intensive land use.

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds European Environment Report - news (analysis piece to follow) Embargoed to Sunday night 11pm

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds - water quality, habitats and species all suffering www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj

In Key West, testing shows cruise ships stir up as much sediment as a hurricane Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

A few weeks ago, I shared with the students of my “International Tourism” course this interesting, but worrisome, article. Key West in Florida has been studying how cruise ships docking affect the quality of water: it stirs up as much as sediment as a hurricane.

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This is a photo of a beaver wetland. Photo credit: James Shooter/SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.

Beavers improve water quality
Several studies have found that beaver ponds reduce nitrogen pollution in watercourses – with many of the nitrates digested by the bacteria in the pond and others trapped by the sediments.

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Global inland-water oxygen cycle has changed in the Anthropocene Inland waters are an increasing sink of oxygen as a result of faster oxygen turnover.

🌀 Oxygen sinks in inland waters

Inland waters have become massive sinks of atmospheric oxygen. From 1900–2010, oxygen consumption tripled due to more nutrients, warming, & damming rivers

These shifts may affect climate and water quality worldwide.

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#SciComm 🧪

Bill targeting watershed moratoriums passes Arkansas Senate committee • Arkansas Advocate A bill that could strip away an environmental permit moratorium intended to protect the water quality of the Buffalo River watershed passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday.

A bill that could strip away an environmental permit moratorium intended to protect the water quality of the Buffalo River watershed passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday. #arpx #arleg

If you give a dam about drought mitigation, water quality, wildlife habitat, salmon restoration, carbon sequestration, & wildfire resilience, then every day is #InternationalBeaverDay. April 7 just happens to be the occasion on which we formally acknowledge the debt we owe our semiaquatic saviors. 🙏

Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society To better understand the increasing human impact on the water cycle and the feedbacks between hydrology and society, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) organized the scie...

OUT NOW: A fantastic new read for hydrologists 📚: a wrap-up of the Panta Rhei scientific decade of @iahs-aish.bsky.social. Between 2013 and 2022, it explored links between changes in hydrology and society. 🌍 In this paper, Heidi Kreibich and her colleagues present ten years of progress. 👇

My guest editorial about the #hydrology of Arizona's San Pedro River (my home) and how #mining will negatively impact the area.

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I’ve logged back in, so let me promote our latest paper on the pesticides in stormwater ponds that accumulate in biofilms —> turns out those biofilms are bad food for bugs! #ecology #biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Hydrology/Hydrogeology/Water+ is now full (150 spots filled).

Wow! This was quick...yet, very time consuming thing to do.

However, it’s been great helping colleagues reconnect and make new contacts here.

Time for a well-earned break before thinking about Part 2. Cheers!

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Longer Droughts, Bigger Floods: UMass Amherst Hydrologist Maps the Future of Water in New England | UMass Amherst Climate change is causing a cascade of changes to everything from harvests to flooded basements, but this new research will help us know what to expect.

Read about our new project trying to understand what the future and evolution of the hydrological cycle here in New England might look like! @umassamherst.bsky.social @umasshydro.bsky.social
www.umass.edu/news/article... #water #groundwater #hydrology