@arizonawater.bsky.social
Water resources scientist and policy advisor in the desert southwest
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A key thing to understand is that outcomes are going to get worse for *all* sick children because of this change. Whether they’re vaccinated or not.
The extra strain on the healthcare system will lead to a large number of kids that otherwise wouldn’t have had to die.
The extra strain on the healthcare system will lead to a large number of kids that otherwise wouldn’t have had to die.
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A key thing to understand is that outcomes are going to get worse for *all* sick children because of this change. Whether they’re vaccinated or not.
The extra strain on the healthcare system will lead to a large number of kids that otherwise wouldn’t have had to die.
The extra strain on the healthcare system will lead to a large number of kids that otherwise wouldn’t have had to die.
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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Yet another rainy (at basin-scales) AR storm headed our way. Its been a real winter for them so far.
Check out whats forecast, in this regard, for your locale at
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
Check out whats forecast, in this regard, for your locale at
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Yet another rainy (at basin-scales) AR storm headed our way. Its been a real winter for them so far.
Check out whats forecast, in this regard, for your locale at
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
Check out whats forecast, in this regard, for your locale at
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
A Bell for Adano. I read it last month, 6 years past graduating with my MPP. I kept thinking how perfect it would be for a pubic policy theory course.
I'm teaching public policy theory next semester and I'm trying to spend the next week thinking up useful readings that are rarely included in that type of course when it's housed in a public policy school. You know, stuff like Machiavelli's The Prince. Let's get wild and crazy.
December 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A Bell for Adano. I read it last month, 6 years past graduating with my MPP. I kept thinking how perfect it would be for a pubic policy theory course.
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build more
So what is the easiest, most realistic way to fix housing costs?
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
build more
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
presented without comment
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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I have met quite a few people who don't realize that most aquifers aren't larger cavities--like flooded caves--in rocks.
Luckily not any who *actually* believe the convenient legal fiction that surface & groundwater are separate, but I'll bet there's someone.
Luckily not any who *actually* believe the convenient legal fiction that surface & groundwater are separate, but I'll bet there's someone.
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I have met quite a few people who don't realize that most aquifers aren't larger cavities--like flooded caves--in rocks.
Luckily not any who *actually* believe the convenient legal fiction that surface & groundwater are separate, but I'll bet there's someone.
Luckily not any who *actually* believe the convenient legal fiction that surface & groundwater are separate, but I'll bet there's someone.
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This is a freaking travesty.
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle
Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is a freaking travesty.
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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Although we've another rainy rainy atmospheric-river landfall in the works on the West Coast, I guess its time again to remind you of the snow-v-rain point-and-click forecast map that @CW3EScripps offers so you can see what's predicted for your neck of the woods...
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Although we've another rainy rainy atmospheric-river landfall in the works on the West Coast, I guess its time again to remind you of the snow-v-rain point-and-click forecast map that @CW3EScripps offers so you can see what's predicted for your neck of the woods...
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_fr...
Last best effort before litigation
Arizona governor urges feds to protect Colorado River users as states struggle to finish water plan
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Hobbs urges feds to protect Colorado River users as states struggle to finish water plan
As it became clear the seven Colorado River states still had no shortage-sharing agreement, Gov. Katie Hobbs urged feds to act.
www.azcentral.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Last best effort before litigation
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Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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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...
Well Into the Future
A Nevada program addressed overallocation of groundwater by paying farmers to use less. Is it working?
knpr.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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...
I say this daily. And ah, well, there's always tomorrow
coffee will fix me
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I say this daily. And ah, well, there's always tomorrow
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November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up
allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/31/n...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/31/n...
November 1, 1965 - “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago, on this day, November 1st, 1965, Fortune magazine flags climate change in an article called “We can afford clean air” by Edmund K. Faltemeyer. “The tremendous rise in worldwide use o...
allouryesterdays.info
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up
allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/31/n...
allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/31/n...
Tonight gave me hope we can save our country.
Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Tonight gave me hope we can save our country.
This isn’t really the best framing. 40-50% of the water consumed in AZ comes from Lake Mead, where Las Vegas discharges its treated wastewater. What the Arizona regulators are proposing would be to treat wastewater above current drinking water standards.
Would you drink recycled sewage water if it meant saving the desert?
Arizona regulators are betting yes.
azwateragenda.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
Arizona regulators are betting yes.
azwateragenda.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
The truth about toilet-to-tap water
Science fiction to science fact … Come on ride the train, the treatment train … And extra credit.
azwateragenda.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This isn’t really the best framing. 40-50% of the water consumed in AZ comes from Lake Mead, where Las Vegas discharges its treated wastewater. What the Arizona regulators are proposing would be to treat wastewater above current drinking water standards.
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Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.
Musk is everything he hated.
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Trump, who is numerically illiterate -- listen to this clip to see what I mean -- benefits immensely from the numerical illiteracy of the American public
September 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Trump, who is numerically illiterate -- listen to this clip to see what I mean -- benefits immensely from the numerical illiteracy of the American public
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New study of hydropower developmt vs flood risk at 107 hydropower dams finds 41% of the dams provide flood mitigation & 26% dams likely increase flood risks. Dams with shorter downstream river lengths tend to more flood-inducing than flood-protecting.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
September 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New study of hydropower developmt vs flood risk at 107 hydropower dams finds 41% of the dams provide flood mitigation & 26% dams likely increase flood risks. Dams with shorter downstream river lengths tend to more flood-inducing than flood-protecting.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee: