Do groundwater rights retirement programs work? There is certainly demand for them in Nevada. For KNPR and the Daily Yonder, I talked to irrigators about their experiences with a pilot program in areas where aquifers are being depleted faster than they are replenished. knpr.org/desert-compa...

The MWD and Yorba Linda Water District dedicated a new helicopter hydrant to provide firefighters a new, strategically located water source for aerial fire suppression. #cawater www.mwdh2o.com/press-releas...

Great work by @luskininnovation.bsky.social @uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social colleagues Veronica Herrera & Dan Coffee to identify a clear connection between fossil fuel infrastructure, plastic production and community impacts in California. innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/11/06/c...

Thanks to @blancabegert.bsky.social for covering this important topic and a bunch of work by my colleagues @uclalawemmett.bsky.social, @uclaioes.bsky.social looking at the LADWP/SoCal Edison comparison + insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...

Our @luskininnovation.bsky.social-led, 4-university team report w the State Water Board on Phase 1 of the CA Wastewater Needs Assessment is out. It runs a brisk 187 pages and lays out the methodologies for implementation in Phase 2, to be completed by July 1, 2027. You're welcome.

Ratio utility billing victims are everywhere - wrote about this often third-party billing system used to mask extra costs on tenants back in 2023 voiceofsandiego.org/2023/04/26/r...

Had me at "opaque utility fees" Amazing deep dive at the utility-housing inequality intersection shelterforce.org/2025/10/10/l...

Water-housing, Canadian edition: The Canadian Environmental Law Association said the 2-year-old Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, that allowed municipalities to more easily sprawl, could allow ministerial zoning orders to bypass some drinking water rules. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

Late to this but great work by @alfencl.bsky.social and team on The Dangers of Extreme Heat in Affordable Housing⬇️

We do all know that you can Google tediously-detailed cost of service studies for all public agency rates and charges in 30 seconds? "Tell me the cost of those choices, and then we can have an informed conversation as to whether it was a good choice or a bad choice" www.latimes.com/california/s...

A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Sudan is witnessing a massive humanitarian crisis- in the last 3 days, 2000 civilians have been killed in North Darfur, the country is on the verge of splitting up again. Spoke to AlJazeera (Arabic) about what should be the role of the UN and international community.

Led by @gregspierce.bsky.social and @edithdeguzman.bsky.social, our team joined @ucanr.edu and ASU for a workshop exploring how urban water systems can prepare for and respond to wildfire risks. Learn more: ucanr.edu/blog/conflue... #UCLA #UCLALuskin

Major new report just released showing that total #water use in US homes, businesses, institutions, and water distribution systems could be reduced by 25% to 60% through improvements in efficiency. pacinst.org/announcement...

1/2 of all families in Gaza have < the bare humanitarian minimum of six liters of water per person/day for drinking and cooking. And 1/4 of the population has < 9 liters of domestic water per person/day for laundry, maintaining personal hygiene, cleaning their shelter, and other domestic needs.

Can confirm

Alexandria Mobile Home Park has been without water for nearly two months because of an ongoing payment dispute between the city and the property management company, Park Place Communities. The Arizona-based company owes the city more than $97,000 in water bills. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Southern Jamaica is expected to receive a life-threatening storm surge of up to 4 metres (13 feet) “There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5,” Prime Minister Andrew Holness said. “The question now is the speed of recovery. That’s the challenge.”

Official journal notifications I haven’t see before: “Almost ready to be accepted”

Important report out from the Initiative on Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities (UACW): The FY 2026 federal budget includes a 70% reduction in funding for Tribal Access to Clean, Reliable and Accessible Drinking Water. tribalcleanwater.org/wp-content/u...

We were thrilled to have co-host Sam Sandoval play a guest role this time around as one of the foremost experts on the binational relationship between Mexico and the US on the Colorado River! www.binationalwaters.org/our-network/...

Nearly nine months after the Eaton Fire, around 70% of severely damaged homes show no progress toward rebuilding, with families of color facing the greatest barriers to recovery and rebuilding. Read more: latino.ucla.edu/research/who...

SF6 emissions are growing, worldwide. What is SF6?? The most potent greenhouse gas known. It has a global warming potential roughly ***24,000 times*** greater than carbon dioxide and an estimated lifespan of around 2,000 years.

Here for posts on LAFCOs.

Nice article using recent EPA boundary data in GIS to analyze how close U.S. water systems are to their neighbors. 55% are adjacent to another one and 95% are within 10 km: "Distance is less of a barrier to regional collaboration than previously thought" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Which is better on cost and climate: publicly owned utilities or investor-owned utilities? Today, we release a report by @denisegrab.bsky.social that delves deeply into an LA case study comparing LADWP and SCE on several metrics. Thanks to all who helped on the paper! law.ucla.edu/news/cost-ca...

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

Join us at Cornell as a post-doc working on enhanced geothermal systems! Lots of interesting work at the intersection of engineering and economics that will benefit from a new NSF grant and earlier investments in CUBO (sustainablecampus.cornell.edu/living-labor...).

How much arsenic is in your drinking water? Maybe a lot less than there used to be, thanks to a 2001 change in the Safe Drinking Water Act! Read the paper, just out in ES&T: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10..... @rff.org @cornellbrooks.bsky.social @lsuagcenter.bsky.social

Reminder that @agu.org's Water Resources Research still has a special call for papers on Equity and Justice. Call open until May 2026. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

I’ve heard worse ideas www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Emergency crews rescued dozens of people in western Alaska on Sunday as flooding from the remnants of Typhoon Halong battered remote coastal communities and tore houses off their foundations, officials said.

Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure. grist.org/housing/two-... #Maui #Hawaii #Wildfire #Homes #Housing

Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source. grist.org/energy/chile... #Water #Chile #Batteries #Lithium #Atacama

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating. Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape. Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

The in-depth tale of 2 mobile home parks, post Palisades fire, by @nohaggerty.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Oh, cool! Thanks, @kinarnicholas.bsky.social, for highlighting my article as Hydrology Paper of the Day!

New story by @ianjames.bsky.social + highlights options for ground-based, mobile water deployment before, and in early hours of, major fires. An important space given frequent high winds. And with currently zero systematic evidence on options and cost effectiveness www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

The study found that before the Flint crisis, ~ 3% of medium systems and ~ 0.5% of small systems reported lead concentrations rounded exactly to the federal threshold—a pattern unlikely to occur by chance. Reminds me of a great study from 15 years ago (see below) phys.org/news/2025-10...

A bit of positive news for your friday — my colleague @enveco.bsky.social explains how Canada's electricity sector flipped the switch on emissions. @climateinstitute.bsky.social #ClimateChange #Emissions #NetZero

Mayor Todd Gloria’s admin ousts climate and sustainability direction - The firing follows a pattern of weakening San Diego’s climate action activities. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/08/m... @voiceofsandiego

Will miss @sammyroth.bsky.social ‘s voice at the @latimes.com. He is a legend.

Just a cool water-energy tech that has actual benefits and has no clear downsides. "The East Bay Municipal Utility District says the system is part of its broader goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030."

Amazing work by friends @kbdobbin.bsky.social, @alfencl.bsky.social and Justin McBride (@uclaurbanplanning.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I never want to "explore [X] as a living laboratory" personally, thanks.

"A recent study led by Francisco Escobedo of the Forest Service suggested that the type and moisture level of vegetation in Zone Zero matters — that well-hydrated vegetation might not pose a threat — and that it varies among regions within California."

I will be recruiting 1-2 new PhD students next year. Areas of interest include experimental fire research focused on flame spread, ignition, flammability or emissions of wildland or urban fuels and modeling the spread of fires through the wildland-urban interface.

huh www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/10/01/h...