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ARTICLES AND WHITE PAPERS

The Water Chain - Todd York

This short article examines the three focus areas of HydroFathom: Watersheds, Aquifers and Infrastructure.  The document briefly summarizes each of the areas and explains the interconnections of these cornerstones of the human water supply system.

                   The Water Chain

               Read a PDF Copy Here

Just for Fun, Uh-Oh Math - Todd York

People often ask why we don't pump water from the Mississippi west to the desert.  In this letter to the editor of the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, our founder, Todd York, give a quick assessment of the challenges.  Read the whole Desert Sun series, but start here.

                      Probably Not

Why Your Water May Not Be Green

Water in the west requires pumping and the total energy required just drinks massive amounts of fossil-fuel power.  Consequently, much of the water in the state is carbon negative.  This page from the Public Policy Institute of California explores the power needs of California water.

                      Water Energy Data

The First Water Movers

The Chinese employed water wheels and even water chains beginning in the 1st century.  Explore their tech here:


                     Water Wheel, Wikipedia                   


BOOKS

The Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson - 1951

Most know Ms. Carson through her seminal piece, A Silent Spring.  This book wows the reader with her astounding knowledge of the worlds' oceans.  Although, HydroFathom focuses on freshwater, sections of this book brilliantly explain the ocean's overarching influence on dry land.  This books serve as one cornerstone driving HydraFathom to explore the natural world and share what we find with others.

The Everglades, River of Grass - Marjory Stoneman Douglas - 1947

The author, journalist, environmentalist and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, wrote this book as part of the Rivers of America Series commissioned by book publisher Farrar and Rinehart.  Her single contribution to this series likely saved the Everglades from extinction and cemented her as a premier defender of Florida's environment.  

Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner - 1986

This book about the early development of infrastructure to control water in the American west serves almost as a Rosetta Stone that in 2024 still provides Hydrofathom a blueprint to explore our home-state California water.  The subtitle clarifies,  The American West and Its Disappearing Water.  The reader explores a maze of gargantuan projects and government bureaucracies that truly opened the west to settlement. Learn about Floyd Dominy, one of the most obscure powerful people in U.S. history.

The King of California - Mark Arax & Rick Wartzman - 2005

This book tells about a secret empire built in the San Joaquin Valley in California.  A powerful but private person helps shape the water and agriculture police of the United States and California.  Who? Well, that's part of the secret.  Check it out.


VIDEO LINKS

YouTube Content


Pumped Dry - USA Today Production Examining Vanishing Groundwater


Pumped Dry Ogallala - A critical U.S. Agricultural Aquifer Shrinks


Teton Dam Collapse - A infrastructure failure tale told from a unique phone company perspective


Cadillac Desert - Focus on the Colorado River with inspiration from the book

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