Looking for a healthy diet of water news? Try some Grouper!
Every day, news media produce many articles about events, trends, people, or places connected to water resources and the environment in Virginia and the region.
The Virginia Water Central News Grouper, now at http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/, categorizes and annotates selected items found at the the daily article collections provided by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality ( www.deq.virginia.gov/info/newsclips.html) and by the Chesapeake Bay Program (www.chesapeakebay.net/thebayinthenews.aspx?menuitem=14852). The Grouper does not include ALL articles from these two sites; please see the Web sites listed above for the complete daily article collections.
For items prior to May 25, 2011, the Grouper's collection is located on the delicious.com social bookmarking site, at delicious.com/araflo.
The Grouper labels each entry in a searchable category. Click on a category to go to the corresponding group of articles on the Grouper site. The categories are listed below.
The Virginia Water Resources Research Center hopes that this service will help readers keep up with water-related news, and we would like to know what you think about this approach. Please provide any comments you have to Alan Raflo, (540) 231-5463; araflo@vt.edu; or 210 Cheatham Hall (0444), Blacksburg, VA 24061. Thank you!
Aquatic Life and Habitat Quality and Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia's Coastal Waters, and Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Tributaries (James, Potomac, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, and York)
Aquatic Life and Habitat Quality and Restoration in Virginia’s Southern Watersheds (Big Sandy, Chowan, Clinch/Powell, New, and Roanoke)
Awards
Boats and Ships (also including items related to ports)
Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
Climate and Climate Change
Coal and Water
Dams
Drinking Water
Economics
Educational Activities on Water and Environment
Emerging Contaminants
Energy Use and Developments
Federal Stimulus 2009 Funding for Water-related Activities
Fisheries ( including recreational fishing, commercial fishing, and shellfishing activities and areas)
Groundwater
Lakes
Land Use (including buffers, conservation easements, development, floodplains, and public lands)
Laws, Regulations, and Government Budgets (plus separate categories for Va. General Assembly items, since 2009)
Marcellus (items related to issues of energy, water supply, wastewater, groundwater, and stream impacts from natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale formation that underlies parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia)
Military (including naval facilities and other coastal bases, Defense Department environmental issues, etc.)
Mining (Items on acid mine drainage, groundwater impacts, mined-land restoration, and other aspects of mining connected to water resources)
Mining-Uranium (items related to the proposed uranium mining operation in Pittsylvania County, Virginia’s moratorium on uranium mining, and the and the National Research Council study in 2010-2011 of the proposed Pittsylvania project)
Oceans
Spills (items on pollutant spills or other accidents or incidents affecting water resources)
Stormwater
Waste Management (items related to hazardous materials, impacts on groundwater, use of rivers for transport, solid-waste landfills, illegal dumps, etc.)
Wastewater (including subsequent use of sludge or biosolids)
Water Supply (including conservation, drought-related items, infrastructure items, etc.)
Weather (includes drought; plus floods, hurricanes, and other weather-related disasters)
Wetlands