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My new work -- adapt Lake Mead releases to inflows -- appears in an article with VP @KamalaHarris
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Nice quotes by @JayLund113 | @jfleck | @SadeghMojtaba
My most important out-take from Lake Urmia and Great Salt Lake work -- Iranians and Utahns both love ❤🧡our great salt lakes and want them healthy.
UWRL faculty member @WaterModeler has been studying the similarities between the Great Salt Lake and Lake Urmia in Iran, and what their similarities can teach us about how to better manage them both. usu.edu/today/story/what-usu…
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UWRL faculty member @WaterModeler has been studying the similarities between the Great Salt Lake and Lake Urmia in Iran, and what their similarities can teach us about how to better manage them both. usu.edu/today/story/what-usu…
The Colorado River Basin Water Accounts activity proportionally assigns reservoir evaporation based on account balance. Try the real-time, online activity at hydroshare.org/resource/eb2a…
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Try Colorado River Basin Water Accounts: Provoke discussion about more adaptive operations.
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Hey #deepuncertainty crowd: Do you have ideas for in-class activities on robust decision making/DMDU topics? I remember @SFletcherH2O had a thread some time ago, or maybe @jan_kwakkel, @EdmundoMolinaMx know?
Why not prioritize larger payments to farmers to invest in longer term water use reduction measures like level land, install pivots, switch to more valuable water wise crops? Buschatzke is right: we can't keep paying people to fallow. Fallowing also hurts farm communities.
Sukkot is a Fall harvest festival celebrated for mellenia. Super cool mobile sukkoh (the temporary structure) and very unique for Northern utah.
Rabbi Benny Zippel visited from Salt Lake City on Thursday at the behest of a Jewish Cache Valley resident who wanted a chance to share his culture and traditions with his neighbors just as his neighbors had shared theirs with him and his family. bit.ly/3yHWaCM
Intentionally Created Surplus (ICS) is a Lake Mead conservation account. Reduce use below 9 million acre-feet per year (historical allocations for CA, AZ, NV, and MX), store water in Lake Mead, and withdraw later. 4 issues with the ICS program today and 2 ways to address:
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Recap 1: ICS was an innovative + successful program. ICS addressed disincentives to conserve water under use-it-or-lose it. It saved 3 maf. Today, ICS may encourage more Lake Mead draw down as contractors try to recover conserved water before the program prohibits recovery.