Human wastewater contamination is so bad in Alabama homes that 1 in 3 adults in one county had hookworm. Biden funded efforts to improve sanitation there. But the effort is cancelled as "DEI". www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Big job at the Water Foundation. The starting salary for the position is $200K to $225K. www.joshswaterjobs.com/jobs/322672/

Big BlueSky welcome to the inimitable Erin Stone of @laist.com And as an example, check out the balanced article on undergrounding considerations 🔽

Our director @gregspierce.bsky.social sums up federal action to release water from 2 Central Valley dams as "dangerous and wasteful" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

TL; DR I commented on how even the few major cities (like Bogota) not currently reliant on far-flung imported sources (or over extracting groundwater!) now have to diversify their water supplies in light of climate change apnews.com/article/wate...

Nice coverage in the Daily Bruin of our recent @uclawater.bsky.social seminar featuring the work of Prof Jessica Cattelino & PhD student Kelsey Kim. dailybruin.com/2025/04/07/p...

What are the potential local water (equity) impacts of "Green Hydrogen" for Energy Transition efforts in LA/CA? Michael Rincon (joint @psr-la.bsky.social), @laurendunlap.bsky.social & I took a look in a @luskininnovation.bsky.social exploratory report. innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/exploring-th...

Check out Maurits Ertsen' review of “Liquid Empire. Water and Power in the Colonial World”, by Correy Ross, at www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/bo...

Cheers to my UCLA & @nrdc.org colleagues on this work. Recycled water is the by far the biggest "new" water source available in the West, and despite good CA run on snowpack (see Ian's other article today) and whatever may be agreed to on existing imported supplies, is urgent.

The Salton Sea may finally be seeing real momentum toward restoration but @gregspierce.bsky.social cautions: lithium riches alone won’t save it. Local communities must benefit or risk being left behind. Read more in @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... #UCLA #UCLALuskin

If you're at the California-Nevada Section American Water Works Association conference next week, check out the full slate of speakers we have talking about wildfire-water supply impacts. Reflecting on experiences in LA, Wrightwood, Colorado and more.

Important work involving UCLA's Park Williams and colleagues @uclasustainablela.bsky.social @ahewitt.bsky.social

Our new paper in Science on the environmental implications of the destruction of Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The more things change: "The city of Live Oak [CA] hasn't raised water rates in more than 19 years. They're facing a water fund deficit of $3.5 million. Proposing to ⬆️ rates by an initial 60% through 2026, 60% more over next 2 years, and by 10% 2 years after that." www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...

Check out @pacificinstitute.bsky.social's 3rd and final report in its series on small water system equity and resilience to climate change. I was able to provide a depressing quote about how urgent this is yet we're unlikely at best to see progress the next few years. apnews.com/article/wast...

Our Nature Water comment “Redefining expectations for urban water supply systems to fight wildfire” is out ⬇️. I started working on this w/ @edithdeguzman.bsky.social and @mullinmeg.bsky.social 10 days after the fires started. We lay out 3 major implications from the fires for water supply systems

The FAQ aims to provide clear, accurate answers to the 19 most common questions we heard from the public, media, and policymakers about fire hydrants, firefighting, water infrastructure, and more. Available in English and Spanish, and w 2 pager-versions. innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/water/local-...

Are urban water systems able to put out wildfires? A question @gregspierce.bsky.social and I got A LOT during the recent LA fires. This set of FAQs is our attempt to answer that and many other questions related to water supply infrastructure and wildfire innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...

Our director @gregspierce.bsky.social lends insight to @ericholthaus.com's story on the near term future of Colorado River management

If you're in the LA area on March 4, check out our @uclawater.bsky.social seminar featuring Professor Jessica Cattelino and doctoral candidate Kelsey Kim at 12 pm. "Gender and Los Angeles Residential Water: Use, Knowledge, and Justice in Water Conservation" Lunch provided. RSVP below.

After the fires, the mud #climate breakdown in action www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Urban #wildfires impact water, soil, and #wildlife. @uofcalifornia.bsky.social experts offer tips on testing drinking water and rehabilitating gardens. bit.ly/4hGZXo3

Join us for the next @ucanr.bsky.social Water Webinar series talk on Feb. 24, '25 at 12PM, with @edithdeguzman.bsky.social and @gregspierce.bsky.social: "Water Supply and the Los Angeles Fires: Emerging Lessons and Implications". Zoom links: tinyurl.com/anrwaterwebi... and at tinyurl.com/yuccgenm

Seems important and promising precedent. And sort of obvious when you find that: "The tax information from 1998 through 2015 showed non-agricultural customers paid 17 times more in taxes for the infrastructure than agricultural customers. " somachlaw.com/policy-alert...

UCLA IoES Professor Travis Longcore joined #ABC7 News to discuss how North America has lost three billion birds since 1970, and what’s driving the crisis. “We know how to fix it if we have the will to do it.” Full segment: ucla.in/4hDIqxp

“Those releases had absolutely zero to do with anything to do in Los Angeles,” @gregspierce.bsky.social commented to @gabriellecanon.bsky.social in new @theguardian.com story on Trump-ordered water releases. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“We’re possibly looking at modest to large ratepayer impacts for these systems" - @gregspierce.bsky.social in my latest for ‪@lapublicpress.bsky.social on challenges for fire-ravaged drinking water systems as they begin the long road to building back: lapublicpress.org/2025/02/wate...

Check out @uclaioes.bsky.social affiliate Sanjay Mohanty's insights on soil and water clean up efforts in LA, and the dangers of reinforcing longstanding EJ inequities. apnews.com/article/los-...

Hi Bluesky 👋🏼 I'm an Urban Water Specialist @ucanr.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social. My research focuses on designing and managing urban environments to create sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between natural ecosystems and people. #WaterResources #NatureBasedSolutions #WaterJustice

You should follow @edithdeguzman.bsky.social who is w/ @luskininnovation.bsky.social @ucanr.bsky.social Among many regular streams of engaged research, Edith has been putting in tons of time on water-fire-climate intersections re: to the ongoing LA fires. innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/01/16/f...

Hearing that water issues are already complicating firefighting efforts in southern Califirnia. The fire/water nexus is still an emerging issue, @gregspierce.bsky.social and I co-authored a report after an expert workshop detailing challenges and solutions innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/2021/12/07/h...

One of the main issues wee outlined in our fire/water report was about water availability during fires. Despite article focus on this being an LA problem, it’s a widespread problem. Many recommendations here for addressing (hint: during a fire is too late) innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...

Conveniently, @fkearns.bsky.social put together a whole starter pack of fire experts who do media stuff! (But not me - don't call me today as I lost my voice). bsky.app/starter-pack...

Behold my very late, niche starter pack. go.bsky.app/QKBJKYy

I spoke with Sarah Elizabeth Richards for a piece in Women's Health on the relative merits and oversight of tap v. bottled water in the U.S. www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a6261...

Pleasure to inform Amy DiPierro's excellent reporting on the drivers and consequences of tap water distrust and reliance on vending machines in San Diego. The story also draws on the insights and past work of other folks working at @luskininnovation.bsky.social voiceofsandiego.org/2024/12/13/s...

“Southern California had a couple of wet years in a row, and that means a build-up of fuels in wildlands... The sequence of very wet followed by dry conditions sets the stage for big wildfires.” - SLAGC faculty dir. Alex Hall on the #FranklinFire in @latimes.com More: www.latimes.com/california/n...

Consider applying for or circulating the single most important role in quantifying Human Right to Water progress in the state doing by far the most to track progress in the U.S. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

If you're at the American Geophysical Union ( #AGU24 ) meeting, I'll be speaking Tue, Dec 10 at 2:40pm ET on the exponential moisture-related scaling of an increasingly broad range of meteorological/Earth system extremes in a warming #climate. agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

You should follow the Community Water Center (@cwaterc.bsky.social), which just joined here. CWC is one of the leading water justice advocacy orgs in CA and the entire U.S.

Final blog on our Water Research Foundation-funded/Pacific Institute project, this time focused on what utilities actually can and should measure re: customer affordability programs. Led by @vedachalam.bsky.social pacinst.org/the-role-of-...

Adequate sanitation access in manufactured/mobile homes is one of the hardest U.S. Human Right to Water issues to address, whether its in AL or CA. wbhm.org/2024/alabama...

Not going to happen anytime soon but a real proposal for national low-income assistance program for drinking water service affordability. realhttps://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-dingell-introduce-legislation-to-ensure-safe-affordable-water-for-all

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage. According to experts who study climate and weather, a few reasons may explain why.

The UCLA Water Resources Group will be posting here for the foreseeable future. Give us or recommend a follow! www.ioes.ucla.edu/water/