Desert dweller, Las Vegas #water efficiency professional, #sustainability advocate. Tweeting at my own discretion.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Joined July 2009
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Cleaning up an address book after 23 years is like browsing a scrapbook of your professional life.
More than 2,300 entries, some of which bring back fond or painful career memories.
Some who passed, but I find it difficult to delete them.
I'm always excited to participate in @ImagineH2O vetting process. It's fun to see the solutions of the future. Some great potential in this round.
The future of water is here, and it's looking brighter every day because of the groundbreaking work of these top #watertech #startups. Announcing Imagine H2O’s 2023 Cohort - The Game Changers of Water Innovation
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#futureofwater
In southern NV, the carbon sequestration of a lawn is exceeded by the discharge created by the first two inches of irrigation water. A typical lawn here gets 117 inches of water applied via sprinklers.
Your lawn is carbon neutral until about Valentine's Day.
Time to branch out? Trees put lawns in the shade when it comes to tackling climate crisis theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
"The most positive thing to come out of crwua seemed to be that everyone was calling the crisis a crisis. That much was considered common ground."
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From mountain ranches in Wyoming to vegetable fields in Yuma, water users look for ways to keep the Colorado River flowing.
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Just look at the pitting on that sidewalk! Overspray and runoff is hard on our urban infrastructure, too.
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Collaboration is the key to success for CR stakeholders. These are meaningful commitments from cities across the basin.
Through a Memorandum of Understanding delivered to the @usbr, the SNWA & water agencies in the Upper & Lower Colo River Basin affirmed their commitments to implement comprehensive & innovative water conservation programs, initiatives, policies & actions within their communities.
Every community has to find policies and programs that fit their unique needs. It's not always what the neighbors are doing.
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“Las Vegas is showing it can be done, it can be successful and it can be done with community support.”
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Today, the Board of the Las Vegas Valley Water District unanimously supported a policy to prohibit installation of evaporative cooling in new commercial projects.
This community is galvanized in its support for innovative water management solutions.
Jeremy Aguero of @AppliedAnalysis: "...these types of issues lead people to believe we are somehow curtailing our ability to grow and expand. I believe it is exactly the opposite... What we are doing here is essentially preserving our prosperity for generations to come."
@LVVWD serves about 70% of the region, including the Las Vegas Strip. New buildings will use waterless technologies, while older buildings will have access to incentives for efficiency improvements.
When your neighbors visit Las Vegas.
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Cooling system evaporation is second only to landscape irrigation in driving Southern Nevada's consumptive water use.
Tomorrow, the @lvvwd board considers an innovative policy to require waterless cooling solutions in new commercial development.
Every time I go to my app dev team. What I think is hard is often simple. What I think is simple is often hard.
