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While hiking, a teen called me a karen for asking his group not to feed a marmot. Ok young boomer

US govt water news - report on enviro/regulatory issues for adding floating solar panels on federal reservoirs - watchdog agency suggests changing EPA's clean water infrastructure funding formula - USGS contributes to study showing US reservoir decline circleofblue.org/2024/federal-w…

Important and big-hearted piece from Longreads on the role of libraries in contemporary US society. Bless the librarians longreads.com/2024/02/27/saf…

Concerns that the mines contaminated the area's water. Residents speak of neighbors up and down the creek with cancers wvpublic.org/resident-along…

Big Colorado River question: what to do about ICS and other "assigned water" that exists outside the priority system. ASU and UNM public policy experts reckon that nearly 40% of Lake Mead in 2023 was assigned water morrisoninstitute.asu.edu/sites/default/…

This plays to my biases but the most depressing aspect of American suburban development is not the ugliness or the social/health/enviro costs but how long it will probably take to undo the damage hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fu…

Would definitely watch the feature film Endless Shrimp in which a server, two line cooks, and a manager at a bankrupt Red Lobster work through personal drama while feeding cheapskate, gluttonous tik tok-ers who refuse to leave the promise of endless shrimp nytimes.com/2024/09/09/bus…

Water rates snapshot from New Mexico. Small systems all with the highest rates santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new…

US govt water news: -saltwater barrier construction begins in Mississippi River -final EIS for large lithium-boron mine in Nevada -GAO recs policy change to help colonias with water/sewage -EPA moves to dismiss PFAS sewage sludge lawsuit circleofblue.org/2024/federal-w…

Fair Bluff, a small town in eastern North Carolina, was flooded twice by hurricanes, in 2016 and 2018. To rebuild, the town had to move its business district out of the flood zone. American Planning Association reports on the govt funding that facilitated the move. planning.org/planning/2024/…

US govt water news: - watchdog says FL and TX reported bad data to EPA on lead pipes - CDC investigates Legionnaires' disease cases linked to cruise ship hot tubs - USDA research arm outlines PFAS in ag roadmap - USGS estimates PFAS exposure in groundwater circleofblue.org/2024/federal-w…

Sales tax increase for septic system upgrades in Suffolk County, NY Gambling revenues in CO and MN Bond/tax measures in four FL counties State + local voters will decide next week on funding water conservation & infrastructure. These items usually pass circleofblue.org/2024/world/202…

Giant storms are growing stronger – overwhelming an unprepared planet weforum.org/agenda/2024/10… via World Economic Forum

Fall baking season starts....now

"Go, buddy! Go! Go!" Spectators cheered spawning salmon on their uphill journey yesterday in Seattle's Carkeek Park. This location was transformed last year when beavers built a 5-ft-tall dam across the creek

For the night crowd: My Los Angeles Times column on one of the Mojave Desert's longest-running water schemes, which now has a green hydrogen twist: latimes.com/environment/ne…

I'm mostly hanging out at the other party now waltonbrett.bsky.social

Take a trip with me through the last 12 months. Do you even remember January? circleofblue.org/2024/world/the…