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How is Climate Change Already Impacting the Bay Area?
Our earth is changing: summers are growing hotter and winters are more unpredictable. There’s simply not enough rain, and there are too many fires.
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West Oakland Climate Hotspot: Rising Seas Threaten East Bay Coastline
One of the trouble spots in the San Francisco Bay Area when it comes to climate change is West Oakland. It has 19 miles of coastline that are particularly vulnerable to rising seas because it lies at a lower elevation.
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California Now Has a Futures Market for Water. Some Farmers are Skeptical
Investors, farmers, and Reddit users can now all hedge bets on the price of water in California thanks to the launch of the first water futures market in the country late last year. It represents a new financial outlook on water in California — one driven by the market.
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Stormwater Could Become an Important Water Source – If We Stopped Ignoring It
Collecting runoff from rain and other precipitation to aid water supply has great potential, but its many benefits are often overlooked.
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California Now Has a Future Market for Water. Some Farmers Are Skeptical
Investors, farmers, and Reddit users can now all hedge bets on the price of water in California thanks to the launch of the first water futures market in the country late last year. It represents a new financial outlook on water in California — one driven by the market.
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Could the Florida Water-Supply Hacking Happen in New York City?
Last week, a hacker took control of an employee’s computer at a small water-treatment plant in Florida. Within a few hours, the level of sodium hydroxide, the chemical compound known as lye that’s added to dissolve heavy metals, had increased to 100 times the usual amount.
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Bay Area Reservoirs Get Much-Needed Rain to Boost Low Winter Rainfall Totals
Rain has returned to the Bay Area, and not a moment to soon. Rainfall totals are lagging this winter, and it’s becoming a pattern.
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Water Bill Debt Soars During Pandemic, Prompting Fears of Future Shutoffs
As more and more people fall behind on their water bills, a report released Thursday by the non-profit public policy organization SPUR recommends federal intervention and greater enrollment in customer assistance programs.
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Column: Wall Street Can Now Bet on the Price of California Water. Watch Out.
Wall Street’s reputation as one of America’s premier innovation machines can only be enhanced by a new futures contract that began trading publicly on Dec. 7. It allows investors to bet on the price of water in California.
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Trump Signs Spending Bill That Could Send Millions of Dollars to the Salton Sea
President Donald Trump on Sunday signed a roughly $900 billion stimulus package meant to tackle both COVID-19 relief as well as federal spending. Tucked in the 5,593-page-long law, courtesy of Southern California Democrats, are provisions that hold the potential to unlock millions of dollars of new federal spending to address the Salton Sea.
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Will Water Unite Us?
Shortly after the networks called the 2020 presidential race for Joe Biden, a list of four priorities appeared on the president-elect’s transition website.
Until that point, the Biden campaign’s “Build Back Better” platform was anchored by a placeholder message, one that urged patience from the American people and noted that votes were still being counted.
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Bide(n) Time for America’s Water Resources With Peter Gleick
Dr. Peter Gleick, co-founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, believes Joe Biden could be the man to save American water policy, which has been foundering under Donald Trump. In his co-authored policy brief, Water Recommendations to the Next President, Gleick and his colleagues lay out the biggest issues with US water safety and access, and what President Elect Biden needs to do to guarantee clean water for all Americans and limit the global repercussions of climate change.
