Shrimpin’ in Louisiana – a waning tradition?

Shrimp boats are a common sight, but shrimpers and oystermen in the Mississippi River Delta are struggling with decreased fisheries due to oil spills, and changes in water salinity and temperatures.

USA: Louisiana, New Orleans, Gulf Coast, Mississippi River Delta, Shrimp boats in Buras

Related reading: Louisiana oyster and shrimp industries in serious decline after BP oil spill

 

The Value of Water in a dry land – Photos from the Omo River Basin

Africa: Kenya; Eliye Springs, water pump built in ’92 for traditional Turkana village

Africa: Kenya; Pokot Land, Lomut, child collecting rainwater from gutter in thunderstorm, a CABESI project

Ethiopia: Lower Omo River Basin, Kundama farm for Karo’s village of Duss, fish for sale

Africa: Kenya; North Rift District, Eliye Springs on Lake Turkana

Africa: Kenya; Pokot Land, Orwa, CABESI Kitchen without Borders project, vegetable garden plot, seedlings

 

Ethiopia: Kundama Farm, a Duss tribal farming community, a 2-day-old Karo baby with its mother

 

Ethiopia: Omo Delta at low water stage, herders lead cattle to water

 

Africa: Kenya; Turkana Land, man pushing cart of gerry cans to be filled with water from the river outside of town

 

Africa: Kenya; Karakol, dried tilapia headed to markets in Kisimu, Nairobi and elsewhere

 

Ethiopia: Omo Delta, Dassenech village of Ilokelete, in low water season, woman carrying fodder for goats

 

Ethiopia: cattle drinking from the Omo River

Africa: Kenya; Eliye Springs on Lake Turkana, sunrise

Ethiopia: Omo River Basin, Duss, a Karo tribal village, woman with jugs for water and young son on bank of Omo River

– Posted by Jasmine Graf, NWNL Associate Director

NWNL at the Columbia River Basin 2014 Transboundary Conference

Thru talks and art journaling, Day 1 of this conference has imparted a sense of how more and more of the diverse stakeholders in this basin are learning to “think like a river” — if the fish and other species don’t recognize boundaries, neither should humans!

Massive cleanup of coal ash spill continues

Exactly one year ago today, NWNL documented the clean up of the Nation’s largest coal fly ash spill at Kingston Fossil Plant, TN.  In 2008, over 1 billion gallons of coal ash slurry leaked into the Emory and Clinch Rivers, part of the Mississippi River basin. The recovery will continue into 2015.

Did you know you can take a tour of the site?

– Posted by Jasmine Graf, NWNL Associate Director

Beautiful new book on the Raritan River

No Water No Life applauds Dr. Judy Auer Shaw on the publication of her new book, “The Raritan River: Our Landscape, Our Legacy.”  For 8 years, NWNL has observed the power of Judy’s outreach upstream and downstream along the Raritan.  Her personal passion for this river and local stewardship has brought together residents, scientists, industry and other stakeholders in a ground-breaking effort to restore the services and legacy of the Raritan River to the State of New Jersey for future generations.

Check out NWNL expedition photos featured in the book and pre-order it here!

About the Author: Judy serves as an Advisor for NWNL. She is a researcher at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, where she also leads the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative. This initiative earned the Somerset County Regional Planning Award in 2010. In addition, Shaw has received the Elwood Jarmer Award for Environmental Leadership. Read her full bio here.

Blue and Green – finding balance

USA: Louisiana, Aerial photo of Atchafalaya Basin area, St Martin Parish, bald cypress standing in water (Taxodium distichum, aka baldcypress, bald-cypress, cypress, southern-cypress, white-cypress, tidewater red-cypress, Gulf-cypress, red-cypress, or swamp cypress), a deciduous coniferalong northern shore of Lake Martin (30.13.62 N, 91.55.41 W approx)

Water Lilies, Adirondacks SP, NY

USA: New York, Adirondacks State Park, beaver path through reeds

USA: New Jersey, Upper Raritan Basin, Tewksbury Township, Mountainville,dragonfly, locally called a “blue bottle,” resting on pond-side vegetation at cottage

Canada: British Columbia, Yoho National Park, in Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kicking Horse River bank, shrub with white blossoms over water milky blue from glacial sediment

Botswana: Okavango Delta, aerial view of channels in wetlands

– Posted by Jasmine Graf, NWNL Associate Director