The Week in Water brings the latest in water news from around the web.<\/p>\n
An interview with historian Brian Fagan<\/a>, author of Elixir<\/a>, compares water struggles thousands of years ago to our own problems today.<\/p>\n Canada is looking at gutting their Fisheries Act<\/a>.\u00a0 By removing protections for fish that currently have no economic value, the government could speed approval of pipelines to move tar sands oil<\/a>.\u00a0 The problem with allowing non-economically important fish to die off is that the fish that are economically important often need those other fish for food, protection, or maintenance of the environment.<\/p>\n Fog seems to concentrate mercury<\/a> and deposit it in coastal ecosystems.\u00a0 Researchers found that fog along the California coast contains five times as much mercury as rainwater.<\/p>\n The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance has set some performance metrics for water, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> for vineyards and wineries.<\/p>\n