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Material seems to be coming at me faster than I can pull it into some kind of coherence. I had planned next to put up a posting about acequias and the water laws of New Mexico, but this morning the estimable blog Waterwired pointed me toward a new online publication available free from the Global Water Program at Johns Hopkins University, Global Water Magazine. The Baltimore university is a suitable venue for the magazine. Its medical school is world famous, but the university also has strengths in many other areas related to water and water management. The first true research university in the United States, the first president of Johns Hopkins was the geographer Daniel Coit Gilman (who had earlier served as president of the University of California, my Ph.D. alma mater). Under the father and son Wolman, its Geography and Environmental Engineering program was one of the preeminent places in the United States for the study of physical geography and water related problems. More recently its Global Water Program has brought together scholars from a number of disciplines to study all kinds of issues related to water. The first issue of the magazine is engaging, and the publication promises to become an important intermediary between scientific research on water issues and the public. RECOMMENDED!
