Bouldering Gowdy Playground

I went to do some more exploring at Gowdy Playground in Peabody on Saturday. I found a crag with some bolted routes and a bunch of surrounding boulders and a giant boulder perched atop a high point. The crag with the bolts had drilled holds and shiny new bolts. Somebody got a little drill happy [...]

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Newsweeks Piece “The New Oil” on Water Privatization Shines

Newsweek, The New Oil; Should private companies control our most precious natural resource? Newweeks piece on the privatization of the worlds water supplies includes stunning picture galleries of disappearing lakes and a great interactive that showcases beautiful areas of the world we’ll likely lose to climate change and changing precipitation patterns. Here is one of the gallery photos of Lake [...]

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Back Room Deals by The World Bank to Profit from Thirst

I received this letter from Corporate Accountability International. Water is a Human Right and should not be treated as a commodity for profits! Help if you can… Dear Tim, Do you know what the World Bank did this summer? Probably not — and that’s no accident. The World Bank just finalized a 100 million euro investment in the [...]

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NEWS: Groundwater Use Increasing Sea Level Rise

Yet another reason why groundwater should stay in the ground! Unless of course your putting it back in. Thanks to Katie for passing along this interesting article from seaweb.org. People are drawing so much water from below that they are adding enough of it to the ocean (mainly by evaporation, then precipitation) to account for [...]

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My Trails.com Articles All in One Place

I found them all. I didn’t come up with the titles and the editor hacked some of them up pretty good, but they are what they are. http://timmcgivern.wordpress.com/about/articles-by-tim-mcgivern-published-by-others/

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China is Making a Water Folly

A recent story in the LA Times, China moving heaven and earth to bring water to Beijing, describes the Chinese massive water works project to bring water from the wet south to the dry north. It’s called the South-to-North Water Diversion. It’s pointless for me to regurgitate the LA Times article, but it is important [...]

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