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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nevada/Utah water job alert 🚨 Great Basin Water Network is hiring a new executive director -- a really neat opportunity to work on Great Basin and Colorado River water issues. www.instagram.com/p/DcJrJd7xdDi/

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

New report from the Colorado River Research Group: Dancing with Deadpool. It begins: "Conditions on the Colorado River are, to put it bluntly, dire." www.colorado.edu/center/gwc/C...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A new report looks at approaches for updating local ordinances in California to consider the connection between groundwater use and streamflow within the context of SGMA and a 2018 ruling that applied public trust considerations to well permits. www.groundwaterresourcehub.org/content/dam/...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Important report out from the Initiative on Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities (UACW): The FY 2026 federal budget includes a 70% reduction in funding for Tribal Access to Clean, Reliable and Accessible Drinking Water. tribalcleanwater.org/wp-content/u...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

What makes heat so hard to cover? Thoughtful reporting from my friends and colleagues, Meg Bernhard and Bridget Bennett, on the invisibility and difficulties of telling stories about extreme heat, a crisis that so often "turns us inward." www.cjr.org/feature-2/wh...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Smart piece on the future of publishing in a world after Google Zero. Written about the journalism industry, but it applies to science communication and many forms of publishing. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/ai-could-c...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

"All water discharged by wells is balanced by a loss of water somewhere." - Hydrogeologist C.V. Theis writing in 1940, nearly a century ago. From "The Source of Water Derived From Wells." water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/The...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

From the National Integrated Drought Information System: "Abysmal" snowpack in Arizona and New Mexico www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New on my Substack: I talked with UNM's @jfleck.bsky.social about why Colorado River negotiations are at an impasse and what happens when the federal government becomes an unreliable partner. www.westernwaternotes.com/p/q-and-a-th...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Lots of water in the Yolo Bypass between Davis and Sacramento.

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Can't believe I am just finding out about the Western States Water Data Access and Analysis Tool (WestDAAT). Pretty neat tool. westdaat.westernstateswater.org

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Came across this the other day, thanks to the California Water Library. Plans to move water to the west, a concept known as the North American Water and Power Alliance. What was being discussed 60 years ago. cawaterlibrary.net/wp-content/u...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Always a good morning when the inverted pyramid makes a cameo.

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

One of the many neat features of the Great Basin is that every so often we are reminded of its wetter past. Wrote a little bit about Pleistocene lakes and the return of Lake Manly in my newsletter this week. westernwaternotes.com/p/an-ephemer...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

The Nevada Supreme Court issued a landmark water ruling today affirming the state's broad authority over groundwater and recognizing its connection to surface water. The much-awaited ruling was unanimous. westernwaternotes.com/p/nevada-sup...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Wrote a little bit about the five indicators Nevada is using to evaluate groundwater stress across the state. This one is for the true groundwater nerd💧 westernwaternotes.substack.com/p/five-indic...

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

a lake, a mirror, a mountain 🍂 spent a beautiful weekend in the eastern sierra

Photo of Parker Lake in the eastern Sierra

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

To tackle groundwater overuse, Nevada is taking a new approach. With $25 million in federal conservation dollars, the state is looking at funding programs to retire groundwater rights. My latest for @thenvindy.bsky.social. Photos by David Calvert thenevadaindependent.com/article/to-t...

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