9/18 is World Water Monitoring Day
What the heck is World Water Monitoring Day? It seems to have been or perhaps sort of still is some sort of cross between a citizen science project and an awareness day. What's missing, imho, is the activism part where the participants, upon learning of their water quality issues, go and try to provoke the appropriate officials into beneficial action. There are/have been implementation and organizational issues, however. Can this event be revived? Should it? Here's da wiki:
World Water Monitoring Day was an international day established in 2003 by America's Clean Water Foundation (ACWF) as a global educational outreach program. The program, subsequently named the "World Water Monitoring Challenge" and "EarthEcho Water Challenge," aims to build public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by empowering citizens to carry out basic monitoring of their local water bodies.[1] Roberta (Robbi) Savage, ACWF's president and CEO created WWMD, and Edward Moyer was the first WWMD Coordinator.
A simple test kit enables everyone, children and adults, to sample local water bodies for a set of water quality parameters including temperature, acidity (pH), clarity (turbidity) and dissolved oxygen (DO). Information on purchasing low-cost test kits is available from the current sponsoring organization, EarthEcho International, and the results of monitoring events are then shared with participating communities around the globe on the sponsor's website.
World Water Monitoring Day was originally celebrated annually on September 18. This date was initially chosen to be a month later (October 18) to recognize the anniversary of the US Clean Water Act, which was enacted by Congress in 1972 to restore and protect the country's water resources. In 2007, the date was changed to facilitate participation in parts of the world where temperatures reach freezing conditions at that time.
In 2006, ACWF transferred the coordination of the event to the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA). The collective goal was to expand participation to one million people in 100 countries by 2012. In January 2015 the management of World Water Monitoring Day was transferred to EarthEcho International.
2008 saw students from Indonesia to Arkansas taking part in water sampling to bring attention to the importance of water quality.
As of 2018, EarthEcho International encourages participants to conduct their monitoring activities as part of the "EarthEcho Water Challenge" during any period between March 22 (World Water Day) and December of each year.
It is also International Equal Pay Day, National Respect Day, and World Bamboo Day. Bamboo, fwiw, is one heckuva resource, if used as such. it is amazing how many types of products one cn make from this fast growing grass.
Then we get a portmanteau awareness day:National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (United States). Awareness days means "we don't give a shit about this", a two-fer speaks volumes about our attitude.
On this day in history:
0324 -- Constantine the Great whupped Licinius at Chrysopolis, the dark ages became inevitable
1066 -- Harald Hardrada landed in England, unwittingly giving it over to William the Bastard
1618 -- The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar began
1850 -- The U.S. Congress enacted the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Typical.
1873 -- The Panic of 1873 occurred, a cascade of bank bankruptcies that triggered a depression ***
1895 -- The "Atlanta compromise" speech
1927 -- CBS went on the air
1931 -- The Mukden Incident, which was used by Japan as a pretext to invade Manchuria
1945 -- MacArthur moved his command HQ to Tokyo.
1947 -- The USAF became an independent branch of the US Global War Machine
1947 -- The NSC and the CIA were created to further US imperial designs
1948 -- Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected to the US Senate not completing someone's term
1977 -- Voyager I took the first photo of the Earth and the Moon together.
1982 -- Christian "militia" slaughtered hundreds of unarmed, imprisioned, Palestinians in Lebanon.
1988 -- Pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar stopped after a coup and mass slaughter
1997 -- Various non-US countries adopted the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
*** These periodic collapses are a feature of capitalism. The more pure and unregulated it is, the more frequent and severe they are. No known capitalist theorist has ever figured this out yet.
Some people who were born on this day:
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe.
~~ Leon Foucault
1819 -- Leon Foucault, physicist
1838 -- Anton Mauve, painter, influenced Van Gogh
1905 -- Eddie Anderson, Rochester on the Jack Benny show
1905 -- Greta Garbo, she wanted to be left alone
1924 -- J. D. Tippit, Dallas cop; "Officer Tippit"
1933 -- Jimmie Rodgers, singer, songwriter and guitarist; neither the brakeman nor the bluesman
1940 -- Frankie Avalon, singer and actor, Funicello's foil
1944 -- Michael Franks, singer and songwriter; of "popsicle toes" fame/infamy
1945 -- P. F. Sloan, singer, songwriter and producer
1945 -- John McAfee, computer programmer
1949 -- Kerry Livgren, guitarist and songwriter, co-founder of Kansas
1951 -- Ben Carson, animated matter, possibly biological, sentience unknown
1951 -- Dee Dee Ramone, singer, songwriter and bass player
1956 -- Chris Hedges, pundit
1961 -- Mark Olson, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1971 -- Lance Armstrong, cyclist and doper
1973 -- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, Ltd.
Some people who died on this day:
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
~~ Leonhard Euler
1783 -- Leonhard Euler, logician, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, engineer and more
1896 -- Hippolyte Fizeau, physicist
1961 -- Dag Hammarskjold, diplomat, killed by ??
1967 -- John Cockcroft, physicist, atom splitter
1970 -- Jimi Hendrix, experienced singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1977 -- Paul Bernays, mathematician and philosopher
1980 -- Katherine Anne Porter, author
1997 -- Jimmy Witherspoon, singer
1998 -- Charlie Foxx, singer and guitarist, half of Inez & Charlie Foxx
2004 -- Russ Meyer, director, producer, and screenwriter
2014 -- Kenny Wheeler, trumpet player, flugelhorn player and composer
2015 -- James R. Houck, astrophysicist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (United States)
World Water Monitoring Day
International Equal Pay Day
National Respect Day
World Bamboo Day
Today's Tunes
Leon Foucalt
Jimmie Rodgers
Frankie Avalon
Michael Franks
P.F. Sloan
Kerry Livgren
Ben Carson
Dee Dee Ramone
Mark Olson
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Witherspoon
Charlie Foxx
Kenny Wheeler
Bonus:
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Foucault, Mauve, Garbo, Officer Tippet, Mukden, USAF, NSC, CIA, Margaret Chase Smith, Voyager I, Jimi, Jimmy Witherspoon, Frankie Avalon, SleepyBenCarson, Kenny Wheeler, Mockingbird
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Good morning...
We still have citizen monitoring and reporting on on our local river. Enforcement is another issue entirely. I think we have like 5 or six people in ADEM (Al dept of enviro. man.) covering our entire state with more miles of rivers than any other state.
We have a River Keeper who oversees both the testing program and mitigating of issues...usually linked to leaking septic system or farm run off. However, it is a NGO program and has no enforcement teeth. Naming culprits in the local paper encourages a response from the land owners, most of whom value the river and its quality too.
We currently have outstanding national water resource classification, but are seeking wild and scenic classification which affords even more protection. The river runs through a NPS park which also does some monitoring.
However, it all started with a citizen group, Friends of Little River started in the early 80's.
Something Special About Little River (17 min)
- tells a bit of the story.
Thanks for the OT and all the music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning LO. Sounds like a mix of good and bad.
We have riverkeepers, baykeepers and waterkeepers and a somewhat better enforcement situation than it sounds like you have, but we still have plenty of problems, including multiple refineries on the bay and delta.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
If found, please return to...
And now I read that some Air Force F-35 puke punched out of his aircraft while it was on autopilot, and they can't find it. $140million down the drain. Let's just hope that it didn't kill anyone when it crashed (or ended up an a lake or stream, in keeping with the OP).
Sic TSA on it. They never miss *anything*, amirite? My current level of disgust knows no bounds.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning UFS, love your subject line. Made me wonder,
could it maybe make it all the way to Cuba? "Buenos Dios, tio Sam, tenemos sus avion" Heh
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It is a possibility LOL
Well, getting
the replacement ejection seat and canopy is going to pose a little bit of a problem for them...
Methinks a recent Air Force Academy grad is now looking for some new employment. You don't get to lose an aircraft twice. You wanna do that, you go Navy, and you'd best be an admiral's son. That's how McCain got to write off 5 of them during his storied aviation career, after all.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Replying to my own post-
apparently, it was a Marine Corps F-35 out of MCAS Beaufort, not USAF.
Scratch the part of my comment about the USAF. I still just hope that the ex-pilot's name isn't McCain.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Monitoring the water today
as the sky openly weeps
the puddles are growing
but I don't expect catfish
jumping just yet
thanks for the OT!
Good morning QMS, hope the agua is a good thing, or at
least not unduly bad. Sure crammed a lot of blues references into those few lines there.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
WWMD
Triggers my memory nubs to get a kit to test my well water. Annual thing I try to do.
Sort of an underground river, amirite?
I'm callin' it as "qualifies".
Thanks for the OT, EL.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good morning earthling1. By all means,
it qualifies and you might as well get right on it.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Am I the only one who thinks that the visuals for
Mark Olsen's "Seminole Valley Tea Sippers Society" look a lot more like the Mojave, Borrego or Yuha? The cover pic is bad enough, but the hummingbird feeding off of a blooming ocotillo? Should be more like The Cahuilla or Serrano than the Seminole.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I wonder if the US taxpayer is picking up the tab for Hunter
Biden's legal troubles?
I doubt that the lawyers representing him come cheap.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4209637-hunter-biden-files-...
If not Hunter had better get busy selling more of his famous artwork.
Thanks, humphry. That's a sticky one. There are some
serious privacy and anti-disclosure provisions right in the Internal Revenue Code itself, but my recollection is that they apply to those making the disclosures and not to the organization itself. The two agents, depending upon the facts, could be in a world of hurt.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
What is the World Bamboo day for?
I hate bamboo plants in our garden. And would love to get rid of the bamboo.Sigh.
Good afternoon mimi. I don't know why we have the holiday
and I do know that one or two kinds are really terrible to have in the yard, you absolutely can't get rid of it of keep it under control. In asia they have tons of uses for it, they make scaffolding out of one kind and eat another. I know that they make flooring, bedding, silverware and a ton of other stuff out of it and it is really sustainable; it's a grass, so you cut it to make something out of it and it grows right back.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
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Hi all, Hey EL! Hope all is well!
Lots of water monitoring, which seems like an awful lot of it has nasty chemicals in it... from forever chemicals on down... It never ceases to amaze me how we treat our waterways and all manner of aquatic habitats like open sewers. It is good to increase awareness of water monitoring, and the tests suggested are good for knowing if say fish can live in it. Not so much for the stuff of real problems. Last I read 20% of water supplies do not meed federal standards. And generally those are not for the worst stuff... but things like high nitrates.
Re: Seminole Valley. I woulda placed it in FL, if there was anything resembling a valley there. I see the dudes song Cactus Wren starts with 'the wren flying into a Mulberry Tree'. Instead of say a Jumping Cholla like the Seminole Valley vid was full of. Artistic license methinks.
You're right, that coulda passed for Borrego, except the tall tree parts.
So what if I can’t spell Armageddon? It’s not like it’s the end of the world.
Have good ones all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good evening Dysto. Thanks for reading. I noticed that the
hummer camera sometimes dropped the horizon to show what really looked like J-Trees, and the pop bottle stars sure look like Jarritos, too.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --