[FRIAM] Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water (fwd)

[Douglas Roberts]

Marcus,

I never question the accuracy of material released by the LANL Public
Affairs Office.  I know it to be nearly to completely misleading -- a trend
begun in 2004 by you-know-who.

However, the thrust of my comment was that I see opportunities for
complexity modeling in the domain of contaminant migration from LANL's
numerous dump sites into the local aquifer.

There are untapped potential funding opportunities for this type of work as
well: law firms; the State of New Mexico; the State of Texas; other private
stakeholders in the drinking water resource of the Rio Grande basin.

Litigious environments can be tapped for funding opportunities.  That was
how The TRANSIMS project obtained a large chunk of funding in its early
years.   Back in 1990 or so, The EPA sued the FHWA, claiming that none of
the modeling tools then in use by FHWA planners could satisfy a provision of
the Clean Air Act of 1990.  The provision in question required that the FHWA
be able to predict the impact on air quality of any proposed changes to the
transportation infrastructure.  As a result of this odd episode of one
government agency, the EPA, suing another government agency, the FHWA, the
TRANSIMS project procured funding from both agencies, with each agency
intending to use TRANSIMS to demonstrate their own case.

--Doug

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> Douglas Roberts wrote:
> > The article does not mention Los Alamos, nor contamination migration
> > into the aquifer.  Instead, it seems devoted to land use and capacity
> > planning.
> Is this list losing e-mails again?  I can't find a single message
> mentioning Los Alamos, except one from you about LANL PR.
>
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