Institute for Water and Watersheds

In America we’re spending $20,000 every minute of every day on bottled water…and tap water that originally cost maybe 5 cents a gallon can be sold now for $4 a gallon,” said Todd Jarvis, associate professor at Oregon State University. “Twenty-five to 40 percent of what is on store shelves is just tap water that has undergone additional treatment or had minerals added at the bottling plant.

Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation will hold its fourth annual Water Film Series in the community room at Oregon Coast Community College, 400 SE College Way in South Beach. The films will show from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The series kicks off Tuesday, April 2, with “Source to Sea - The Columbia River Swim.” The 90-minute film is “a broad, sobering look at the history and destiny of what the indigenous people call Che Wana, the Columbia River.” The film also tells the story of why Christopher Swain subjected himself to a 13-month swim down its 1,243-mile length. Using the swim as a thread, the present condition of the great river of the west is revealed.

The 2013 Water Resources Spring Seminar Series will take place on Wednesdays from 4-5 PM in ALS 4000 and will last from April 3rd to June 5th. The Seminar Series is being sponsored by the Water Resources Graduate Program and the Institute for Water and Watersheds. Refreshments will be provided. The seminars are free and open to the public.  View the seminar flyer.

Enroll for graduate credit:
Seminar WRS 507 (CRN 55648)
Journal Club WRS 505 (CRN 55646)
Wednesdays, 12-12:50

An emerging question is do qualifying standards for licensure need to be revisited as the fields of geology and geography become increasingly overlapped?

Courtesy Professor Robert Lackey wrote an editorial about "normative science -- information that is developed, presented or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular policy choice.”

Robert T. Lackey retired in 2008 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Corvallis national research laboratory where he worked for 27 years as a senior scientist and deputy director. (Photo: Jeff Basinger)