Water, climate, communications with @water_hub. @climatenexus @GRID @EnvAm alum. #GoAvsGo she/her
Colorado, USA
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Sarah Bucci retweeted
🔥 Megafires are more than a fire crisis—they can also trigger a water crisis.
A hotter, drier climate means fires burn larger, polluting drinking water supplies. Communities across the West have faced this firsthand. Swipe to learn more about the #LAFires from the #WECRCaucus➡️
ALT Megafires and Unsafe Drinking Water The Hidden Harms of Climate Change RAMIRE climate waterequity.org Photo: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)
ALT "DO NOT DRINK THE TAP WATER" This was the warning issued to Pacific Palisades residents last week as wildfires raged. Similar warnings were issued to some residents in Altadena and Pasadena. Wildfires can affect water quality while they burn - and for days, months, even years after they're extinguished. climatewaterequity.org
ALT This isn't the only time that wildfires have threatened clean water. Past examples include: · Santa Rosa, California - 2017 Tubbs Fire · Paradise, California - 2018 Camp Fire · Hot Sulfur Springs, Colorado - 2020 East Troublesome Fire · Las Vegas, New Mexico - 2022 Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire · Lāhainā, Hawaii - 2023 Maui Fires climate waterequity.org Photo: CAL FIRE
ALT This kind of unnatural disaster is becoming more common as fossil fuel pollution drives drier and hotter conditions in the West. Megafires - fires that burn more than 100,000 acres - are on the rise. Their larger size and higher temperatures put clean drinking water at greater risk. climatewaterequity.org Sources: Climate Signals, Washington Post
Sarah Bucci retweeted
💰Let’s close the water affordability gap: per a new EPA report, the U.S. needs to invest $8.8 billion a year for families to have permanent relief from high water costs. We can solve the water crisis together!
🔗 Learn more from the #WECRCaucus: climatewaterequity.org/epa-n…
Sarah Bucci retweeted
50 years ago, Congress took historic action to protect public health and improve the quality of drinking water across America.
Half a century later, that lofty but vital commitment continues with the introduction of our AQUA Act.
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We might not agree on the exact path forward, but I think we can all get behind holistic efforts to address water access and affordability - for both communities/utilitrs and households struggling to pay the bills.
Appreciate @RepRashida and @RepDebDingell leading the way!
Proud to support the #WECRCaucus pushing water affordability to national importance. This issue affects people living in cities and rural areas communities alike and needs a national spotlight and solution. Progress is possible - even in a shifting political environment.
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Check out PolicyLink and the Water Equity & Climate Resilience Caucus statement ⬇️ on the H2O UP Act
#SafeAffordableWater
#WaterIsAHumanRight
The U.S. is in a water affordability crisis. 1 in 3 say they struggle to pay their water bill on time, risking access to #SafeAffordableWater. Congress must pass the H2O UP Act of 2024. Thank you @RepRashida and @RepDebDingell for leading the way! climatewaterequity.org/state…
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Sarah Bucci retweeted
Yes please. I’m being sued for $4M by Mountain Valley Pipeline company in Virginia — alongside dozens of grandmas, college kids, people who protested destruction & stood up for life.
Meanwhile, hurricanes, wildfires, mudslides, droughts, flooding, all of it rages on.
Sarah Bucci retweeted
Detroiters are subsidizing a regional water system and the DDA. Detroiters aren’t benefiting from development, but millionaires & billionaires are benefiting like “fat cats”! When we raise these concerns the community is accused of “not wanting progress “!
Nearly 50 years after the Downtown Development Authority was established, the city’s downtown is thriving while schools, libraries, parks, and others are comparatively underfunded. metrotimes.com/news/downtown…
Shame on @Muhlenberg. These are not the values of the alma mater I remember and I am sick to my stomach this professor was fired. @MuhlenbergAlum
ICYMI | In January of this year, Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at @Muhlenberg College, temporarily reposted on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet. Months later, a faculty and staff committee recommended firing her over that post, she said.
“Do not cower to Zionists,” the post read, according to Finkelstein. “Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Do not make them feel comfortable. Why should those genocide-loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat-out racist. Don’t normalize Zionism. Don’t normalize Zionists taking up space.”
A week after that post, the college suspended Finkelstein from campus and teaching amid alleged student complaints about an Oct. 12 class discussion and the Instagram repost, according to Anita Levy, a senior program officer in the @AAUP’s Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance, who’s advocating for Finkelstein.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3N2A98w
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One of my favorite @water_hub traditions is how we share the ✍🏼 drafting our monthly-ish newsletter. I was on tap today and reflected on my time at Equity Summit with the #WECRCaucus.
waterhub.org/blog/august-wat…
The share outs are strategic but also literally what we’re reading and listening to! It’s a good read every 6 weeks or so if I do say so myself. Plugging!
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This month’s newsletter includes plugs for @MaryHeglar’s beautiful novel, Troubled Waters and @NicoleKelner’s Arts & Climate substack!
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Sarah Bucci retweeted
From Michigan to Louisiana, we’ve known for years that lead in drinking water is a #publichealth catastrophe. It’s past time to rebuild trust between communities and their water and establish access to clean and affordable water as a human right.
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#WaterIsAHumanRight, but rights require action. Read this urgent call from #WECRCaucus members @NayyirahShariff (@FlintRising) & Jessica Dandridge-Smith (@TheWaterCollab) to #GetTheLeadOut nationwide. app.sosha.ai/s/gqh4uhtI
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Sarah Bucci retweeted
What progress is being made in the Colorado River Basin to help? deseret.com/utah/2024/06/18/… #CoRiverCollab #SolutionsJournalism
Sarah Bucci retweeted
#JustInfrastructure, live and in color! 📽️🎉
Tune into our NEW animated campaign video below, and keep scrolling through the thread to learn more 🧵
Sarah Bucci retweeted
🗓️ 5/7 @ 10am PT/1pm ET: Join a talk with 👇
Susana De Anda, @CWaterC
@MonicaLewisPat2, @WeThePeopleDet
Rebecca Malpass, The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans
Hear about policy solutions needed as 1 in 3 struggle to pay🚰 bills across the US
bit.ly/NDWW-2024
Sarah Bucci retweeted
Cale Makar has no reflection. He hath not pride, nor vanity. He cares not about your dreams. He cares not for your pyramid schemes. #Avs
Sarah Bucci retweeted
Calling All Law Students in Michigan that have an interest in #WaterJustice should join this effort! WE Legal Fellowship | We The People @CWSC wethepeopleofdetroit.com/we-…