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🌏 I forecast water & climate risks. AMA☔️ 💧Water Canary CEO🐥 ☀️SoCal-based, MN-born, 1st gen Punjabi🥁 🌱Senior TED Fellow, Truman Fellow, RAND Pardee fellow.🦫 Climate is the message but #water is the medium: go.ted.com/sonaarluthra
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Wishing my dear @dearsarah.bsky.social the happiest of birthdays. You fill every day with life and joy and light and magic and meaning. I'm so blessed boundlessly grateful I get to share them with you.! 🥹💫🤩♾💙 🪄👩🏼‍🎤♕🎰🦞 🌌🎎☬🪷🔱 🏜️💦🌈🍀🏵️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said on Tuesday that Gaza’s last seawater desalination plant had shut down, bringing the risk of further deaths and waterborne diseases such as cholera and dysentery. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...#water

Fears grow people are dehydrating to death in Gaza as clean water runs out
Fears grow people are dehydrating to death in Gaza as clean water runs out

UN agency warns residents exposed to cholera and dysentery as city’s last seawater desalination plant closes

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Last week, hours before CA sued Exxon for its decades of climate deception, the Wall Street Journal released explosive new documents further exposing Exxon's history of deceit. IMHO they tell a slightly different, even more damning story than the one being reported. 1/n www.wsj.com/business/ene...

WSJ News Exclusive | Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change
WSJ News Exclusive | Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change

Internal documents show what the oil giant said publicly was very different from how it approached the issue privately in the Tillerson era

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The One Thing You Need to Know About Threads

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Global Supplies of Sugar, Rice at Risk From Looming Thai Drought The Thai government has advised farmers to avoid 2nd rice crop to conserve water. The drought is expected to fuel inflation and inhibit economic recovery.

Drought Menacing Thailand Threatens Global Supply of Sugar, Rice
Drought Menacing Thailand Threatens Global Supply of Sugar, Rice

Thailand is preparing contingency plans to deal with a potential drought that could last years and squeeze global supplies of sugar and rice.

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China floods: Xi Jinping urges action as rains kill 15 and displace thousands Scientists have warned the country to expect ‘multiple natural disasters’ this month including typhoons and high temperatures

China floods: Xi Jinping urges action as rains kill 15 and displace thousands
China floods: Xi Jinping urges action as rains kill 15 and displace thousands

Scientists have warned the country to expect ‘multiple natural disasters’ this month including typhoons and high temperatures

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"We're designing infrastructure generally to the wrong standards for precipitation risk" Infrastructure projects funded through the IlJ using NOAA's Atlas14 data are "instantly decades out of date" #water #climate

E&E News: NOAA rainfall projections 'decades out of date,' report says
E&E News: NOAA rainfall projections 'decades out of date,' report says

NOAA is incorporating decades-old records into current estimates while excluding the effects of climate change.

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Had a blast yesterday interrogating the latest USGS water cycle diagrams with my grad students - feels good to be teaching water the way I've come to know it

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Sonaar Luthra 💦❄️🌧️🧊🌊🚰
@sonaar.bsky.social
🌏 I forecast water & climate risks. AMA☔️ 💧Water Canary CEO🐥 ☀️SoCal-based, MN-born, 1st gen Punjabi🥁 🌱Senior TED Fellow, Truman Fellow, RAND Pardee fellow.🦫 Climate is the message but #water is the medium: go.ted.com/sonaarluthra
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