How we manage water affects our water’s quality and quantity.
WWALS Watershed Coalition is pleased to announce a Water
Conference where Gordon Rogers, Flint Riverkeeper will share information on hydrology of the South Georgia
region and Neill Herring, Environmental Lobbyist, will discuss upcoming legislation that can affect our watersheds and aquifer. The
conference will take place in Tifton on Saturday, August 24, 2013
from 9:00 am until noon at the NESPAL, University of Georgia, Tifton
Campus at 2360 Rainwater Road.
Category Archives: Conference
Ask Georgia Power to conserve our water –WWALS to GA PSC
Approved 12 June 2013 by unanimous vote of the WWALS board, Dave has mailed a signed copy to the Georgia Public Service Commission, and I will go read it to the PSC Tuesday morning at 10 AM 18 June 2013, at their hearing about
Docket 36498, Georgia Power Company’s 2013 Integrated Resource Plan and Application for Decertification of Various Unitsand
Docket 36499, Application for the Certification of Amended Demand Side Management Plan
Y’all come! -jsq
From: WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc.
Valdosta, GA 31605
12 June 2013To: Georgia
Public Service Commission
244 Washington Street, SW
Atlanta GA, 30334-9052
Dear Public Service Commissioners and Staff,
The recent rains have swollen our blackwater rivers, Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, and Little, under our longleaf pines and Spanish-moss-covered oaks, and filled up the tea-colored tannin waters in our frog-singing pocosin cypress swamps here in central South Georgia. But that was only a dent in our protracted drought that ranges from mild to extreme, with projections not much better.
We do not need more traditional big baseload power plants gulping down our river or aquifer water when solar and wind power use far less, and those renewables are now at grid parity with coal, natural gas, and nuclear.
Power plants are thirsty, as the Union of Concerned Scientists pointed out in a 2011 report, “Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electricity’s Thirst for a Precious Resource”.
Much of the water used to cool power plants evaporates, and is Continue reading
South Georgia author Janisse Ray fundraiser for WWALS Watershed Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | PDF of event flyer |
Tifton, GA, April 17, 2013, WWALS Watershed Coalition brings Janisse Ray, a South Georgia naturalist and conservation writer to Tifton for fundraising, food and fun on Saturday May 11th at Blackshank Pavilion, 457 N. Carpenter Road.
A native to South Georgia, Ray writes about the places that are
familiar to us. She is an American writer, naturalist, and environmental
activist. Ray will read to us from some of her works which include:
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,
Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home,
Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf,
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land,
A House of Branches,
Drifting into Darien: a Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
and
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food.
Ray lives and works on a family farm in southern Georgia.
Cost: Family Event $5-Individual/$10-Family
Agenda
Continue readingGeorgia River Network Weekend for Rivers 2013
April Ingle opening Weekend for Rivers 2013:
April Ingle at Chattahoochee Nature Center, talking about the agenda
Continue readingFood and Water Watch Workshop @ FAMU
FAMU PR 9 February 2013 on WCTV.com, FAMU Teams Up to Promote Sustainable Food Support Systems,
TALLAHASSEE, FL- Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) Statewide Small
Farm Program, Food & Water Watch (FWW) and the Crescent Moon Organic
Farm will host a food workshop titled “Building Sustainable
Food Support Systems.” The workshop is scheduled for Sunday,
Feb. 10 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Crescent Moon Organic Farm in
Sopchoppy.
The featured speaker will be Continue reading
Big Little Water: Camera 1 Videos on the Withlacoochee by Tom Baird
Here are videos of
Tom Baird’s talk for
WWALS hosted at VSU by
Blazer Gardens,
about the
Y-shaped Withlacoochee, or Suwannee, or
Swithlacoochee,
from
the dry Paleo-Indian era 14,000 or more years ago
through
atlatls in the woodland period
and
Troupville queen city
through the
Ellaville log boom
to
current-day over-pumping of the aquifer.
Here’s a playlist.
Big Little Water by Tom Baird (camera 1)
Update 2012-09-20: Videos from Camera 1.
Here are some pictures of Tom Baird’s talk, about the Withlacoochee River yesterday, Little Big Water. Atlatl, roving rivers, ghost towns, artifact hunters, and more.
Big Little Water by Tom Baird 2012-09-11
Update 2012-09-13: Pictures from Camera 1.
Tonight at VSU Student Union:
Big Little Water – a survey of the history, geology and archaeology of the Withlacoochee River, with replica artifacts people can handle, and slides.
“I’ll also get into some of the current threats to the river and maybe we can get into a good discussion and Q&A.”
Website event and facebook event. WWALS Seminar September 22nd
Neill Herring, Veteran Conservation Lobbyist at the Georgia General Assembly, on the political economy of water conservation in Georgia.
Jesslyn Shields of Georgia River Network on River Protection Success Stories in Georgia
And a variety of other Presentations and Potluck Lunch, Discussions and Arboretum Walk. Join us for an interesting day and meet the Officers and Board of Directors to see how you can make a difference in our Watersheds in South Georgia. We are a Non-profit group who are interested in clean water and leaving a better planet for our kids and grand-kids.
Register here.
Update 6 September 2012: better JPEG rendering of flyer.