🚽 NEW: Groundwater overdraft in coastal Virginia has led to sinking land and imperiled freshwater sources. Officials have turned to the sewers for a solution. nytimes.com/2022/10/20/cli…

There’s Something in the Water in Virginia. Before You Say ‘Yuck,’ Wait elenashao.bsky.social The New York Times highlights SWIFT project HRSD For more on innovation from @BerkeleyLawCLEE: journals.plos.org/water/article?… law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/upl… law.berkeley.edu/research/clee/… Nell Green Nylen Felicia Marcus

Join experts Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Dave Smith, and Dave Owen as they explore the critical roles negotiation plays in regulating water and environmental quality. Registration: berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

“If we had a water discount, we’d have a little extra money for food or to buy our daughters clothes, shoes and other things they need for school,” said Rosario Rodriguez, whose family rents a home in the rural, unincorporated community of El Porvenir. Cc Gavin Newsom

As a consumer, and a diligent student of the internal world, I find this a remarkable quote to hear from a senator. This treadmill is also the basis for the unsustainabilty of how we are inhabiting the world.

This is going to be really really good. Today at 1230 PT! Regulatory Cookbook or Negotiation Cage Match?: A Water Quality Case of Environmental Law Implementation with Dave Owen (Armín Givechi) Dave Smith (U.S. EPA, ret) and sejal chauhan (San Francisco Baykeeper 🌊) berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Huge news: FERC approval for the nation's largest dam removal. Amazing. eenews.net/articles/ferc-…

This is so well stated.

How to move beyond greenwashing #water in the #CircularEconomy? alts to #GDP & #slowwater projects at scale in California, Peru, & w/beavers. My latest for nature featuring Michael Kiparsky Dr. Emily Fairfax Boris F. Ochoa-Tocachi Robert Costanza Hannah Druckenmiller @Ben_Dittbrenner nature.com/articles/d4158…

North Carolina built more than 10 new homes in the 100-year floodplain for every one it bought out between 1996 and 2017, according to new research from a UNC-Chapel Hill team led by Dr. Miyuki Hino. newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…

Professor Dave Owen just testified before Congress @tranportGOP on Clean Water Act issues. He also answered 7 questions for the American public: youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-jph… UC Berkeley Law @BerkeleyLawCLEE UC Law San Francisco #cleanwater #water

Today, at the confluence of #InternationalWomensDay and #GroundwaterAwarenessWeek, we give you Helen Dahlke - an inspiring woman who's doing a lot for #groundwater in California! #CAwater @hedahlke ppic.org/blog/can-nine-…

“If we declare victory just because it rained, then we lose the opportunity to prepare now for the next drought.” California’s Drought Is Over. Its Water Problems Aren't. Mark Gongloff Bloomberg talks to CLEE Water Program Director Michael Michael Kiparsky

…California’s wet and dry extremes and the whiplash between them. In our new report…we argue that the state needs to act now to strengthen its capacity to fairly and effectively allocate water in times of scarcity. Michael Kiparsky

California water doesn't do the basics well on water rights. The legislature can help. Once again, Ian James brings clarity to a corner of the water world in a sorely needed way. Los Angeles Times UC Berkeley Law @BerkeleyLawCLEE Union of Concerned Scientists Dave Owen

We are hiring! Come help us advance Managed Aquifer Recharge in the US with Ellen Bruno & Jenn Stokes-Draut Berkeley Lab lnkd.in/dX7XgMmV @BerkeleyLawCLEE @hedahlke Thomas Harter UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences UC Davis UC Santa Cruz Louise Bedsworth U.S. EPA Michael E. Campana

Position: UC Berkeley (CA) - Postdoctoral Scholar - life-cycle analysis and the economics of groundwater recharge. 2 years w/possible renewal. App due: 16 August 2023. Start: Summer 2023. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03974 #JobWaWi cc: Michael Kiparsky