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@SustainableSV
SSV is a non-profit “think & do tank” focused on water use & reuse, air quality & mobility & leading a prosperous, equitable, decarbonized Sustainable Life.
SF Bay Areasustainablesv.orgJoined May 2009
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Sustainable Silicon Valley
@SustainableSV
"No surface reservoir could hold as much as underground aquifers can." Measure W created a parcel tax on impermeable surfaces, increasing green space and water storage. Editorial: L.A. doesn't need a water czar to solve its water woes. It's already on it
latimes.com
Editorial: L.A. doesn't need a water czar to solve its water woes. It's already on it
Angelenos are wondering why we aren't capturing this year's bounty from the sky. The reality is: We are. Slowly and steadily, the Los Angeles region is shoring up our future water resources.
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@SustainableSV
Click the short
@PPICWater
blog link for a reasoned assessment on the state of California water storage. We can and should do more for our groundwater 🏦 banks especially, but there’s limits.
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Dan Brekke
@danbrekke
“… Most of this water is not just uncaptured—it’s uncapturable. And it’s not actually wasted: it’s freshening San Francisco Bay, which benefits from these kinds of flows.” ppic.org/blog/can-we-ca via @PPICWater
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@SustainableSV
The “most impactful year of climate legislation in California history, hands down.”
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Menlo Spark
@MenloSpark2025
Opinion: California is making historic progress in climate fight mercurynews.com/2023/01/17/opi Let's keep up the momentum and make this another banner year to advance climate and #ElectrifyEverything. So grateful to leaders like @SenJoshBecker for his commitment on climate.
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Peter Gleick 🇺🇸
@PeterGleick
“What we’re seeing is weather whiplash,” said Peter Gleick, co-founder of and senior fellow at
@PacificInstitut
. “We don’t get average years anymore.” #climatechange Will Storms End California’s Drought? That May Be the Wrong Question
nytimes.com
Will Storms End California’s Drought? That May Be the Wrong Question
California has experienced what one researcher described as “weather whiplash” with quick swings between wet and dry periods.
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@SustainableSV
#Californiastorm, where 19th Century Infrastructure meets 21st Century Extreme Weather
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CWEA
@cwea
This drain has had enough of #Californiastorm, sending it on down the line. Infrastructure is not built to deal with these massive rainfall totals, though there is hope! The water world is adopting green infrastructure, stormwater vaults, wetland parks, CSO tunnels and more. twitter.com/DustinMulvaney…
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CWEA
@cwea
We'd also add electrical instrumentation techs to this list of workforce shortages related to electrifying everything. In water and industrial systems we made everything smart, connected, and computerized. There's just not enough instrumentation techs to keep systems running.
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Katherine Bagley
@Kat_Bagley
America needs to "electrify everything" if it hopes to transition off fossil fuels and tap into renewable energy. The problem is: The country has a dire shortage of electricians, reports @emilypont for @grist. grist.org/energy/electri A 🧵
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CA - DWR
@CA_DWR
It’s important to remember that these storms haven't ended the #drought. Major reservoir storage remains below average, & conditions could turn dry again this winter, offsetting recent #storms. Statewide CA reservoir storage is currently only 82% of average for this time of year.
An image taken with a drone shows low water conditions at Oroville Dam located at Lake Oroville in Butte County, California.
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Justin Gillis
@JustinHGillis
Excellent work by
@HirokoTabuchi
of
@nytimes
in smoking out the latest bad actor trying to slow down climate action. That would be an entity called the Propane Education and Research Council. Take a look at whose palms are getting greased.
nytimes.com
The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: Television Stars
An industry group is spending millions of dollars to push back against efforts to move heating away from oil and gas.
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@SustainableSV
"As climate change brings increasingly heavy rain, cities would be wise to suck it up." motherjones.com/environment/20
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Burrito Justice
@burritojustice
“When SFPUC installed 30 new rain gardens along a 12-block strip in the city’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, the corridor reduced the amount of stormwater entering the sewer by 95% for the area” motherjones.com/environment/20
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Senator Scott Wiener
@Scott_Wiener
Conservatives are trying to make protecting gas stoves — which are toxic — a culture war issue. What they don’t appear to realize is that gas stoves are a blue state thing. People in red states predominantly use electric stoves. Facts are a funny thing, aren’t they?
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Sam D'Amico
@sdamico
Just wanted to put this out there -- gas stoves are a Northeast/California/Eastern urban midwest thing. This is also where major cities used gas for lighting in the early 20th century - the infra started at that point. Almost opposite the map of the red/blue political divide.
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