State Water Board to farmers: You do you, but with less water. Farmers: Okay, but we flood fields for water-intensive crops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ latimes.com/environment/st…

Coincidence? Plausible deniability is Big Almond’s Teflon

Undoing urban watersheds’ desecration would be a major win for people, and all native species, not just for steelhead trout latimes.com/environment/st…

Ship leaks fuel into Delta waterway. Owner laments “very bad day” for the boat. No mention of the waterway, or the externalized costs due to his dereliction. Classic #waterisforwaste attitude. stocktonia.org/news/delta/202…

Riparian forests get short shrift when ag gets priority access to groundwater. This has to change if we have any hope of resilience if the face of rising temperatures and worsening droughts. Groundwater is a buffer against climate change.

“…the distribution of that water across the globe was ‘way off’.” theonion.com/report-every-p…

“Water is a cosmic gift.” theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

The significance of Bogotá’s water restrictions are underestimated. Surrounded by “catchments” of year round moisture, this high tropical megapolis would have expected to be less exposed to climate risks than most just a decade ago. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The dispute over control of interstate water systems is far from over. eenews.net/articles/supre…

Rivers in the continental United States drawn in proportion to flow rate

What's not to love about beavers? 🧐 Okay, but still, they were here first, and their adaptation of waterways more than makes up for whatever inconvenience they create for humans youtu.be/AmYtRX8keb0

“Conservation and efficiency is the cheapest alternative available to us. It’s not free ... but it’s far less expensive than recycled water, than desalination, than really most other water supply options that we have.” latimes.com/environment/st…

Tonight, I stood on the shoulders of my ancestors as I shared about our responsibility to care for our earth. This election, the choice is clear. I’m with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they’ll go to work everyday to protect our air, land and water.

Arguing that Forest Service’s permitting process is “rife with problems”, Arrowhead cries that accounting for extraction of water from California forestland creates problems for Arrowhead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ latimes.com/environment/st…

Installing residential rain water capture systems appears to be an effective response to CDMX’s H2O problems, but a far superior natural system is already in place that’s free + time tested, if only the impermeable barrier over the land were not in the way bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Environmentalists: fish will die by the thousands if ag continues to siphon more water from Kern River Southern CV Ag: you’re overreacting State officials: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [thousands of fish die] State officials: we need to protect flows in the Kern latimes.com/environment/st…

Good "I Smell A Rat" reporting, but positioning the resistance to these shenanigans as "Environmental activists fear the delta would be harmed" misses the point. This is not fear of potential harm, it's rejection of obviously harmful status quo. #CAWater latimes.com/environment/ne…

Damn the steelhead trout, Chinook salmon, longfin smelt, Delta smelt and green sturgeon. Who needs em when we can just kick the can down the road while we squeeze as much profit out of this valley before it’s just desert latimes.com/environment/st…