CLIMATE OF SPOKANE, WASH

Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrology and Water Resources in the Boise and Spokane River Basins

In the Pacific Northwest, warming climate has resulted in a lengthened growing season, declining snowpack, and earlier timing of spring runoff. This study characterizes the impact of climate change in two basins in Idaho, the Spokane River and the Boise River Basins. We simulated the basin scale hydrology by coupling the downscaled precipitation and temperature outputs from a suite of global cl...

Testing the metals hypothesis in Spokane, Washington.

A >7-year, time-series, epidemiologic study is ongoing in Spokane, Washington, to examine the associations between ambient particulate constituents or sources and health outcomes such as emergency department (ED) visits for asthma or respiratory problems. One of the hypotheses being tested is that particulate toxic metals are associated with these health outcomes. Spokane is a desirable city in...

To wash or not to wash? That is the question.

books on sport medicine. I am not bragging about this but simply stating an easily verifiable fact. I had recently been reading a newspaper article that noted that the second biggest killer of children in the world is not malaria or tuberculosis, nor AIDS. It is diarrhoea. Over 2000 children die every single day throughout the world from this problem. The simplest solution to reducing this dise...

The Power of Wash

Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into WaSH Development Planning in Ghana

Climate change threatens water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) facilities and services, as these are intimately linked to the water cycle and are vulnerable to changes in the quantity and quality of available water resources. Floods and droughts, which pollute and reduce water delivery respectively, have now become a perennial issue to deal with in the northern regions of Ghana. This study aimed...