[MCN] 2016 study confirms 2014 study linking groundwater to river flow

[Lance Olsen]

2014 Geophysical Research Letters
Groundwater depletion during drought threatens future water security 
of the Colorado River Basin
Stephanie L. Castle, et al
First published: 28 August 2014
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL061055/abstract

2016 Water Resources Research
The importance of base flow in sustaining surface water flow in the 
Upper Colorado River Basin
Matthew P. Miller et al
First published: 9 May 2016
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015WR017963/abstract               

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Lewis Hyde (2010) noted that in Parliament in 1774, Lord Camden said, 
"If there be any thing in the world common to all mankind, science 
and learning are in their nature publici juris [belonging to the 
public by right], and they ought to be as free and general as air or 
water."

The agencies and economic forces that have led science and its 
products away from being "as free and general as air or water" remain 
with us today. This economy is being disrupted only now by the 
availability of the internet and the zero marginal-cost of 
distribution for digital objects.

http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2016/06/23/can-commons-design-pattern-lexicon-show-open-science-destination/

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[The classic Franklin summary of his advice from Poor Richard's Almanac.]

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