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Work is starting to heat up now. Soon a podcast, vidcast and research brief, all relating to the water project, will be available on the interweb. While the research brief will stick to the water budget model, the pod and vid casts will relate to water issues in the western U.S. in general. I don't if any of you have been reading the papers lately, but their was an article about the future of lake mead. Researchers calculate that there is a better than 50% chance that the lake will be empty by 2021. The forcast for other water supplies in the west don't look much better. There has been speculation on the future of water supplies here on the peninsula as the glaciers shrink and the snowmelt runs off faster due to global warming. The new water budget model, once implemented, will help determine water trends here on the peninsula in the future. Once we have a good measure on how much water we'll have to work with, we'll be able to better plan on how to manage it. Isn't science great.