@PabloWater

Climate and water scientist at @UCSUSA. Rivers enthusiast. I am looking to provide clean water to people in need. Opinions are my own.

 Merced, CA
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Joined December 2017
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California is the wealthiest state in the world's wealthiest country. Yet there are more than 1 MILLION people here without reliable access to safe drinking water. Sadly, there are plenty more inequities in the San Joaquin Valley for disadvantaged communities. 1/6
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1/From the area hardest hit by #HurricaneHelene, UCS’s Alicia Race shares how 'this disaster has impacted people I care about' and offers resources for those looking to support organizations helping survivors. Check this thread for more (🧵). act.ucsusa.org/3XPLxtq

Hurricane Helene's Massive Destruction Was Supercharged by Climate Change, Here's How You Can Help 

There is so much more we need to do to keep the people and places we love safe.

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Exploring Equity in California Water Rights: A Historical Perspective californiawaterblog.com/2024… via @jaylund

Exploring Equity in California Water Rights: A Historical Perspective - California WaterBlog

By Audrey Cho This blog post highlights my undergraduate thesis at UC Davis titled Water, Land, and Power: The Legacy of Asian American Exclusion in the California Water Rights System. This blog post...

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La inteligencia artificial es una herramienta que puede cambiar nuestras vidas. ¿Pero para bien o para mal? En la 2da parte de la entrevista con Ricardo Baeza-Yates, experto en IA de @Northeastern, él explica cómo podemos mantener el control sobre la IA. act.ucsusa.org/4e1uOtM

La inteligencia artificial ¿mejorará tu vida?

La IA parece estar en todo. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, experto en IA de @Northeastern explica su efecto sobre nuestras vidas y la salud mental.

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New study by Sandy Sum, Phd candidate @BrenUCSB, in @AMJPublicHealth analyzes 2007-20 trends in impacts of drought on arsenic and nitration concentrations in surface and drinking water in California. Finds disproportionate impacts in Latino communities thehill.com/policy/energy-en…

Drought-related water pollution disproportionately affects California Latino communities: Study

Drought-driven drinking water contamination is disproportionately affecting members of California’s Latino communities, a new study has found. Among the pollutants plaguing these water system…

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How Solar Power Can Deliver Water Savings, Farm Success, and a Healthier Environment ucsusa.org/resources/agrivol…
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Memo to Water Utilities: Don’t Pit Safe Water Against Affordable Water

Let’s reject water utility scare tactics on treatment costs for toxic forever chemicals.

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La mala calidad del aire y la inseguridad hídrica están agravando los efectos del cambio climático en California. El científico climático @DrFernandezBou nos cuenta detalles desde Merced, en el Valle Central de California. ➡️dangerseason.ucsusa.org
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Humanity is ignoring major planetary vital signs as atmospheric CO2 levels soar to all-time highs and Earth records its 12th consecutive month of record-breaking heat. “We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell.” Story here: latimes.com/environment/stor…

Earth breaks heat and CO₂ records once again: 'Our planet is trying to tell us something'

Global average temperatures and CO₂ levels continue to soar. May was Earth's 12th consecutive hottest month on record, officials announced this week.

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.@grist outlines how despite impt axns @Microsoft has taken to reduce direct emissions, it keeps helping the fossil fuel industry accelerate oil extraction thru cloud computing & AI. Fossil fuel expansion is incompatible w limiting worst climate impacts. grist.org/accountability/mic…

Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.

Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

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How a water scientist hopes to save California habitats that could be pumped dry latimes.com/environment/stor…

How a water scientist hopes to save California habitats that could be pumped dry

Hydrologist Melissa Rohde studies California ecosystems that depend on groundwater. In many areas, declining water levels put habitats at risk of drying up.

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Splashy Speaks Up for Clean Water: Episode 1 youtu.be/pA-KCYpyxvs?si=hQf7… via @americanrivers

Splashy Speaks Up for Clean Water: Episode 1

Meet Splashy, an eager small stream who wants you to know how a rec...

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🧵on #Groundwater sustainability from @PabloWater ⬇️
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New Factsheet: Understanding Future Groundwater Sustainability Scenarios from a Community Perspective ucsusa.org/resources/underst…

Understanding Future Groundwater Sustainability Scenarios

Understanding the future of groundwater sustainability, including sustainability in diverse climate change scenarios, is crucial for low-income and farmworker communities.

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Entendiendo el futuro de la sostenibilidad de agua subterránea desde la perspectiva de comunidades es.ucsusa.org/recursos/el-fu…

El futuro de la sostenibilidad de agua subterránea

Esta hoja informativa describe cómo incluir información climática en la planeación del uso de agua subterránea para que se comprendan las implicaciones para las comunidades de bajos ingresos y...

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New Factsheet: Understanding Future Groundwater Sustainability Scenarios from a Community Perspective ucsusa.org/resources/underst…

Understanding Future Groundwater Sustainability Scenarios

Understanding the future of groundwater sustainability, including sustainability in diverse climate change scenarios, is crucial for low-income and farmworker communities.

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Rural farmworker communities are dealing with well failure, affected by key factors such as the presence of perennial crops, socioeconomic conditions, well density (both domestic and agricultural), and well depth (Rodriguez-Flores et al. 2023). iopscience.iop.org/article/1…

Drivers of domestic wells vulnerability during droughts in California’s Central Valley

Drivers of domestic wells vulnerability during droughts in California’s Central Valley, Rodríguez-Flores, José M, Fernandez-Bou, Angel Santiago, Ortiz-Partida, J Pablo, Medellín-Azuara, Josué

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Over the past decade, only in the San Joaquin Valley have rising temperatures led to a 4.4 percent annual increase in crop water needs (evapotranspiration), representing almost 650,000 acre-feet of extra water demand per year (Moyers et al. 2024). journals.plos.org/water/arti…

An invisible water surcharge: Climate warming increases crop water demand in the San Joaquin...

California’s bountiful San Joaquin Valley (SJV), a critical region for global fruit and nut production, has withstood two severe, multi-year droughts in the past decade, exacerbated by record-break...

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