Happy New Water Year 2026! May your water year be as wet as you like when you'd like it. californiawaterblog.com/2025/09/28/h...

Making Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

A profound and inspiring post.

There is a common sentiment that California should have more surface reservoir capacity. But few seem willing to pay enough for such capacity, even with healthy (or unhealthy) state subsidies.

Excellent on gerrymandering.

Putting AI energy use in perspective. If you want to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, ride a bike to work. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The cohesive sediment transport lectures of Professor Ray Krone (1991), including how SF Bay marshes work are now available on YouTube. Prepare to get deep in the mud. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Physics will force more painful cuts eventually unless the parties make very substantial cuts in advance.

A common irony of urban water conservation. One which can usually be overcome with better rate structures - which requires care in California due to prop 218.

Sacrificing independent redistricting in California seems like a threat to democracy, California, and the Democratic Party than keeping politicians away from redistricting and not following Texas Republicans fostering corrupt elections.

Where are they now: Anna Sturrock Registration is now open for the 7th International Symposium on River Science, held in Davis, California from Oct 6-9, 2025! Early Bird Registration will remain open until 15 August 2025. “Where are they now:” is a new blog series on the California WaterBlog,…

Nice 2019 interview with Phil Isenberg on California water, done by Chris Austin. Serious California water people will benefit from this. t.co/ftDAB4vaOm

At a time when we need a Tom Lehrer most… There is a need and a vacancy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

The future of tribal water tights in California. Very interesting, especially for groundwater. californiawaterblog.com/2025/07/27/b...

Flettner Rotor xkcd.com/3119/

decimation 1. the killing or destruction of a large proportion of a group or species. 2. historical - the killing of one in every ten of a group of people as a punishment for the whole group (originally with reference to a mutinous Roman legion). --> So decimation can mean only 10% loss. (Inflation)

"Life is just like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it disappears." - an 80-year-old fishing boat captain I recently interviewed on why he refuses to retire

News anchor: and now, for a Bayesian update.

One of America’s most insightful news sources.

Spring-fed streams will have greater importance for cold-water fishes in a warming climate.

Some good news!

Water management tourism could be an opportunity for regions to increase the visibility of our municipal silent services and leave us all flushed with pride about public infrastructure. Also, the Paris Sewer Museum musee-egouts.paris.fr/en/the-sewer...

Earth Ranked Number One Party Planet theonion.com/earth-r...

The multiple-barrier approach that supports our life on Earth. (We are the survivor bias in our sample.)

How to give a boring talk. californiawaterblog.com/2025/02/16/h...

Sadly, we have been here before. And fortunately escaped and prospered after the end of this sad period.

A microcosm of problems in water management. One campus program minimizes water use, replaced a grass strip with bark. Another program, for irrigation, installed a complete irrigation system. We now have the soggy bark when two units do their individual jobs well, but act at cross-purposes.

A very useful perspective on AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

Wow! Interesting that the masts were clipped, rather than toppled.

The secret physics of sailboats. (This requires extensive field research.)

Science and autocracy, decline for sure, maybe without recovery.

Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive

Our modernish world… xkcd.com/3089/

Another case of - We have found the enemy, and he is us. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Something for every graduate, non-graduate, water manager, and politician to remember and reflect on, with some humor.

NEORSD can see the deeper (water-related) meaning in any cultural or political event.

Spoke to @huffpost.com about how MAHA is already making America sicker. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

What was California's wet season like this water year? And where is our regular data improving and needs more improvement? californiawaterblog.com/2025/04/27/w...

"These findings are encouraging for river restoration advocates everywhere." Putah Creek salmon run featured in this #EarthDay research roundup from @uofcalifornia.bsky.social. (You're right: the pic below is not a salmon.) www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/4-calif...

Implementing SGMA will be a long winding legal and procedural road. Here is one example. mavensnotebook.com/2025/04/15/p...

A wonderful presentation on rank-choice voting, and how good apples can keep bad apples off the ballot for the Big Apple Mayor.

This is also true for California state websites that removed (per state law) historical and technical documents that were not “accessible” to the blind.

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

A great response to folks selling bottled water, in particular: “You know, our bodies are about 60 percent water. Can you guarantee that none of your water has ever been part of people? Otherwise, isn't your product pretty much cannibalism?" (Brendan Beary)

Kern farmers agree to continue funding the delta tunnel – with caveats @SJVWater #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/03/29/s...

RIP naturalist/writer John Burroughs, died this day 1921. "A person can fail many times, but isn't a failure until he/she begins to blame somebody else." “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com