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“Access to safe, clean and affordable water will be the greatest climate crisis the

15 Oct 2023

Clean Water Solutions 3 “Climate Whiplash” “We’re going through climate whiplash of extreme drought years to extreme wet years—there are just no average years anymore.” Natural Resources Defense Council Variability in statewide annual precipitation (1895 – 2021) Clean Water Solutions 4 Problem is not water scarcity – it’s water infrastructure. [...] Major Water Reservoirs Located in Northern California to capture snowmelt from Cascade and Northern Sierra Mountain Ranges Clean Water Solutions 10 Major snowmelt occurring in the South, bypassing water storage facilities. [...] A.’s aging water lifeline Southern California’s water supply is dependent upon thousands of miles of cement, rebar, dirt and rocks Clean Water Solutions 13 Disparate impacts Drought, failing infrastructure, water contamination hit poor and rural communities the hardest “Money and infrastructure ‘Brown Water for Brown dictates who has sufficient How Racism Ripples People’: Making Sense of water dur. [...] • New Water Supply – Conserved from Evaporation – Largest private landowner in Mojave Desert - 45,000 acres of land with water rights – 30+ million acre-feet of water in aquifer – 2X the amount of water in Lake Mead – Conserved water by preventing evaporation – Permit to withdraw 50,000 AFY over 50 years under Sustainable Yield Plan • Conjunctive Use Groundwater Storage Bank – 1 million acre-feet. [...] The most cost-effective and Clean Water First in the world conversion scalable water filtration of natural gas pipeline for technology on the market.
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