03 Jul

WASH-CoRPs Session – Thu July 05 @ 4:30pm Vinology – Wastewater reuse for agriculture in Central Mexico

Hello everyone!

WASH-CoRPs will host the next installment of our summer discussion series at Vinology from 4:30-6pm on Thursday July 5 with Jesse Contreras and Leon Espira to talk about their work on wastewater reuse for agriculture in Central Mexico.

Leon and Jesse will discuss their projects related to wastewater reuse for agriculture in Central Mexico. Their work includes describing the health effects of irrigating with wastewater, water quality and pathogen testing, and how these will change after the recent completion of a large wastewater treatment plant – the system’s first in over 100 years of operation. Here is the first manuscript from the project’s pilot study, describing the association between wastewater reuse and children’s health: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135417305341?via%3Dihub

We are very excited build off of our previous session with Ernesto Martinez who is conducting WASH research in Mexico City!

*Please reply to WASH-CoRPs@umich.edu or quickly fill out this attendance form if you plan to come so that we can make sure to have enough spaces at the restaurant: https://goo.gl/forms/UQ8bgkYZvtMit8lb2

Join us for this session (and note that Vinology has a great happy hour deals at this time – flat bread appetizers will be on us!)

Cheers,

Matt & the WASH-CoRPs team

PS. What is “WASH-CoRPs”, you ask?? We are a multi-disciplinary group of grad students and faculty building connections among researchers and practitioners involved in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) work. More literally, WASH-CoRPs stands for “Water Sanitation and Hygiene – Collaborative of Researchers and Practitioners”.

25 Jun

A matter of national security?

Interesting perspective on military recognizing climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/04/dont-turn-to-the-military-to-solve-the-climate-change-crisis

19 May

Explaining why the economies of many autocracies rely on natural resources: it’s easier than good governance

The “resource curse” typically holds that places with more natural resource wealth are more prone to autocratic government. A major new book, “The Institutions Curse” flips the “resource curse” on its head.

From a review of the book: “…the source of the association of high oil and gas rents with nasty political outcomes is located not in the properties of the commodities being exported but, rather, in the institutions existing in today’s resource-reliant countries before they began extracting hydrocarbons”

https://www-cambridge-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/institutions-curse-natural-resources-politics-and-development-by-victor-menaldo-new-york-cambridge-university-press-2016-401p-9999-cloth-3499-paper/8322BEF359551ECDE237FF6541B686EC/core-reader

11 May

China’s Huge Bike Graveyards

The BBC just posted a video of China’s huge bike “graveyards” – where bikes from the dozens of competing bikeshare companies are impounded after being illegally parked. Pretty incredible drone footage!

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-43999482/the-problem-of-china-s-huge-bike-graveyards

02 May

Sea level in Florida

Note the comment about Southern Florida being underwater within 80years…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/02/mangroves-everglades-florida-rising-sea-level

30 Apr

Starting the MUSE Feed

Hello!

This is the first post of the MUSE feed. Here we hope to hear from everyone in the UM community about research and social related events and news for UM sustainability scholars.