Researchers Challenge Water-Flow Model
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Some are challenging earlier ideas about how water naturally flows because the streams studied then were not ânatural archetypesâ but rather the artifacts of 18th and 19th century dam-building and deforestation.
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Â· Study undermines climate sceptics' arguments Â· Correlations 'inconsistent' with temperature rise
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By Laura McCandlish, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 4--Summit faces issue of water vs.
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Climate change and a growing demand for water could drain two of the nation's largest manmade reservoirs within 13 years, depriving several Southwestern states of key water sources, scientists warn.
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By Olivera, Francisco; DeFee, Buren B  ABSTRACT:  The capacity of a watershed to urbanize without changing its hydrologic response and the relationship between that response and the spatial configuration of the developed areas was studied.
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A scientist says the United States could more than double its hydropower supply by harnessing the energy of smaller streams. Doug Hall said the feat can be achieved using small turbines or generators instead of dams.
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People encounter rain and snow every day, and scientists have studied precipitation for centuries, yet it's amazing how much we still don't know about water that falls from the sky.
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MIT researchers produce a tiny water-skimming robot prototype they think could monitor water supplies for toxins or skim contaminants off the top of water.
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Water striders do what few other animals can: They walk on water. How the freshwater insects pull it off has baffled scientists&#151;until now.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--Reservoir construction, pipelines and water imports in the Arkansas Valley have changed flows in ways not yet fully understood.
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MOUNTING pressure on the world's water supplies has the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand collaborating on a research project to address the problem.
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A new book argues that nature is too complex and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored to be modeled using computer programs.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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By Dan Walters, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--THERE'S NO INHERENT -- i.e., rational -- reason why California could not resolve its two-sided water dilemma.
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Canadian researchers say they've discovered an unanticipated way in which freshwater fish might respond to water diversion and climate change.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--A new city water-conservation proposal would hit apartment-building owners and renters much harder than single-family homeowners.
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U.S. scientists say they've determined rain evaporation and continental convection play an important part in the tropical water cycle.