Water news continued to receive top billing throughout the past year. Severe drought and flooding, exacerbated by a changing climate, again fronted U.S. headlines in 2015.
My Top Water Wishes for the New Year include a quick look back at some of the important water stories that streamed from our offices this past year.
- Wishing for increased recognition of the vital, intrinsic relationships between our economy and ecology. >More
- Wishing that those who have (water) will help to provide for those who have not. >More
- Wishing for increased support to train and equip the next generation of conservation stewards. >More
- Wishing that data and science replace politics and opinion, in decisions over our most precious natural resource. >More
- Wishing that we prioritize ecological restoration, recognizing the vital importance of this work to ecosystem services like drinking water supplies. >More
- Wishing that the recent Paris climate accord will jump start critical mitigation for the effects of our rapidly changing climate. >More
- Wishing that invasive and damaging strategies for species ‘restoration’ will be abolished. >More
- Wishing we may all share important data ultimately vital to human survival. >More
- Wishing that all governments, including the federal family, step up to support private-public partnerships to restore water resources and species habitats. >More
- Wishing that we may all do well by doing good in 2016! >More
