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https://lnkd.in/eyNubqbn. This is a great article from the Washington Post (including my a quote from my buddy Rob Young, PhD, PG !) about septic systems, their impacts on coastal communities, and how they’re being dealt with. Definitely worth the read!!

Birds more likely to collide with buildings lit by blue light - study. Night-migrating birds are at greater risk of colliding with buildings lit up with high levels of blue light at night, research has suggested. For more on this story go to: https://lnkd.in/eJzkp4x9

Weekly Wave: Reflections: On Stockholm World Water Week 2024 and Bridging Borders - IN THIS ISSUE: Reflections, Simone Williams, Shrinking Reservoirs, APW, Waterloop, Trellis #weeklywave https://lnkd.in/grekUzKM

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat recently analyzed 1.3 million buildings in the Miami area by their elevation above mean sea level. 52% of the buildings lie at 10 meters or less above mean sea level; however, just 0.3% of those are sited below 2.2 meters - the maximum projected sea-level rise by 2100. Does this surprise anyone? Work, I. (2024, February). Sea-level rise susceptibility: Miami. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. https://lnkd.in/eR_-rSsT

🌧️🔬 Discover the atmosphere's secrets without leaving the ground! Dr. Jennifer Faust's research uses rainfall to analyze air quality. 💦🌍 It's simple, innovative, and full of surprises! Support #RainfallResearch and stay updated with her findings. 📈 Join the conversation with #AtmosphericAnalysis and #ScienceSimplified! ➡️https://ow.ly/oE5A50TvWw2 #LCMS #EnvironmentalChemistry #WASMagazine #EnvironmentalAnalysis

#1812Project: "a lot of them seem to be buried, & I think this might have been due to an earlier event that's not in our #History books", yes, the reason fort Jefferson & fort Livingston are way off in the Gulf, starforts charging electrolytic-waters,.. although incoming projectiles were impacting all over, one #meteor began a complete societal-reset... https://lnkd.in/ej_DQtt6 "how the west was won" ...& at 2:30 in the morning, on #Dec16_1811, a massive bolide enters our atmosphere, coming in from the debris-trail of #Sungrazer #C1811F1, impacting northeastern Marshall county, Mississippi with so much force... ...resurfacing the entire #MississippiEmbayment, shifting continents at compressional-boundaries, shoving north America further up Juan de Fuca, shutting the channel between the island of California, forming Great-Lakes, Florida-Keys, expanding Caribbean-sea, all at once, sending tsunamis, washing over entirety of central America... ...mass-liquefaction, #massextinction, all the cities, already well built, every city west of Appalachias was buried, no, there's no way the Spanish could have buried Tenochtitlan, & all cities were washed over, every final working pyramidal-complex, uncovering a couple/few in early 1900's, like Teotihuacan & Chichen-Itza, but most still beneath foliage today, from this impact in 1811... ...& appears this was enough force to further slow outer-plates & mantle in relation to faster spinning inner-core, increasing Earth's #dynamo, taking out majority latter #Pleistocene DNA, "giants", along with much early #Holocene genetics, "dwarfs"... ...this is what broke all the churchbells, land moving to such degree, all of them ringing excessively, no "myth", breaking so many, they were removed, we have them in photographs, "melted for ammunition"?, were "rebels" attempting to re-bell our cathedrals, -what "revelation"... -Please give it a study, see what you find, &... -bring back our lost #Antiquitech-"find the truths behind the myths" #shockdynamics #impactphysics #planetarydefense #educationreform https://lnkd.in/ey_Nb4p5

June 28, 2024 - BY: CHELSEA HARVEY - E&E News, "#California is mandated by state law to launch a heat wave ranking system by next January. --- CLIMATEWIRE | Cities around the world have been testing a new strategy for communicating the dangers of #extremeheat. They’re ranking #heatwaves according to their severity — and in some cases even naming them, the way weather agencies name hurricanes. In theory, these systems could help improve #publicawareness about the #healthrisks of #extremetemperatures. That’s crucial as global temperatures continue to rise. But in practice, it’s not clear how much of a difference they make. Most pilot programs ended after one or two summers — with relatively few scientific conclusions about their public impact. “There are significant governance, operational and scientific concerns with naming heatwaves, and no evidence that they increase awareness or uptake of heat-preventive measures,” wrote Kristie Ebi, an expert on heat and public health at the University of Washington, in an email to E&E News. A 2022 report from the (https://lnkd.in/eKfwYXxK) warned that naming heat waves could have unintended negative consequences, potentially reducing the effectiveness of established #heatadvisorysystems. It also recommended that the WMO conduct further research to evaluate the effectiveness of existing heat wave naming programs around the world. “What was established for tropical cyclone events may not necessarily be appropriate for heatwaves,” the report noted. Yet the potential to save lives is enough for some governments to move forward with new heat wave ranking systems anyway. A heat wave ranking program launched in Athens, Greece, in 2021 has now expanded to six cities across the country. The program relies on a tiered system, ranging from category zero, the lowest level, to the most severe heat at Category 3. Last year, Greece’s national Red Cross society announced a new early action protocol for extreme heat, tied to the ranking system. When heat waves hit the highest threshold, the protocol dispatches teams to check on vulnerable populations and distribute water, sunscreen and other supplies. Meanwhile, the state of California is developing its own heat wave ranking system in response to a bill (https://lnkd.in/evEKWi8U) passed by lawmakers in 2022. The system, which is mandated to launch by Jan. 1, 2025, was first proposed by California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and his California #Climate Insurance Working Group, which published a report in 2021 on the dangers of heat, wildfires and other climate-related events. The report recommended that the commissioner “work with state agencies and the State Legislature to establish a state system to identify and rank heat waves, and to provide information to the public about the projected impacts of each.” California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment officially began work on the ranking..." Continue reading

From the historic roots of hydraulic equations to the innovative potentials of AI in transforming water distribution systems. Listen to this interesting discussion unraveling the mysteries behind the equations for hydraulic modeling that power our understanding of water flow and distribution systems.🎧

From the historic roots of hydraulic equations to the innovative potentials of AI in transforming water distribution systems. Listen to this interesting discussion unraveling the mysteries behind the equations for hydraulic modeling that power our understanding of water flow and distribution systems.🎧

From the historic roots of hydraulic equations to the innovative potentials of AI in transforming water distribution systems. Listen to this interesting discussion unraveling the mysteries behind the equations for hydraulic modeling that power our understanding of water flow and distribution systems.🎧