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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A reminder of simpler times - look at this old cover and remember how clever and humorous these scientists were being about fascinating and important environmental science. Absolute, life long favorite journal. ❤️

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fish, water, temperature, energy: the columbia river columbia.rriv.org.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Checking in on an old project of mine with some new tools

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has ruled there is no constitutional right to clean #water. The UN has declared a human right to water, but that has no sway here. If there's no "constitutional" right, federal & state laws must provide that protection. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case

Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

To generalize it, AI is being used to spin the existing economy faster. The existing economy has some mis-design baked in; going faster accelerates its negative consequences further beyond the resiliency of ecosystems. This outcome is not an inevitable, but it is the one currently being chosen.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A major problem with the AI data center build out is that its resource use is not even necessary for its own stated purposes. theaifootprint.com

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When everything runs faster, you tend to use more energy, which means waste accumulates faster and resources are gone sooner.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

All creatures of this planet are in for a very hard time. We will have to fight hard for them, and for ourselves, as the machine world continues gaining strength. We will have to make sacrifices, and keep up with a vision.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We are entering an age of ubiquitous robotics, and we must prepare to study these machines in the way we have studied ecosystems - because their presence will impact every corner of the globe. If we take this seriously, we may yet find a way to a sustainable world.

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The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 18/08/2026

You might not be following this because it's not about cities per say, but the administration just repealed the 2001 roadless rule in National Forests. They want to open up for more logging and more building which messes with everyone's drinking water. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/c...

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests

The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Super cool job opening for someone with project management and community organizing experience! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

job-boards.greenhouse.io

Project Coordinator, Labor Futures

Remote - NYC

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Doing a little cultivating on our open source page, so it's easier to discern the project when devs show up github.com/rrivirr.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A Common Operating Picture (COP) is a single, continuously updated, and shared display of relevant operational information that provides a unified view of an incident or mission for all involved stakeholders. When industry builds out, these interfaces need to be supported rather than suppressed.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An important take away from Codeberg's blog: AI automated code generation spins CI/CD pipelines more heavily, regardless of code correctness, acceptability, or quality. This itself consumes precious resources pointlessly. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o....

blog.codeberg.org

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

In Brief: Two motions regarding

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Detroit River, almost more of a moving lake.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

First visualization of underground water flow direction vector using our open source sensor!

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is an interesting one: low water season in an intermittent stream shows the past history of fire, with current new growth of riparian vegetation but the complete loss of the shrubs. Interaction of fire and water shapes the ecosystem and the landscape.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Water is cool. We value it, not just as a quantity, but because of what it means.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We need to build a technology that fights for the environment and the people. We need a new grid.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The watershed is the fundamental unit of terrestrial landscape on the planet’s surface. When we seek to use these landscapes, we alter or sustain their rivers and streams. In all activities, every moment of our day to day lives, we are either degrading or restoring rivers.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Housing for single tier version, 3d printed. Only does 2 dimensional groundwater flow monitoring, but lower cost & open source build complexity.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Working through different 3d printed designs for sensor mounts inside our groundwater flow probe. Minimize affect on flow while maintaining solid placement.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Which do we need more: neuromorphic computing circuits or healthy, sustainable landscapes? Which do you think we should invest our time and energy and resource in creating?

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We need a strategy to monitor the sound

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The construction of big buildings itself impacts water supply. Water tables are often artificially lowered, and water is needed for concrete, dust control, and cooling. These impacts are considered 'temporary', but they have real affects on communities during large scale industrial build out.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Nobody can argue against the Colorado River needing a water management plan, and that water allocations need to evolve. The question is, how much of that plan should be influenced by a new water intensive industry, the AI data centers?

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Looks like necessary plans to cut water supply from the Colorado River are about to go on the books. What we're looking for are corresponding control on water intensive industries, right?

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One of the best ways to know what is happening with groundwater is to drill and instrument a small monitoring well. With the right sensors, you know not only the compass direction of flow, but if the flow is heading up or down - cardinal signals for heaving pumping nearby.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

2. calculator.ecologits.ai puts chat and report generation first on list to calc AI data center impact, which show small footprints. But scroll down to explore 720p - 4k video, see a different scale, and think about how much this is already being used.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1. EcoLogits calculator for AI data center water/carbon footprint is a useful tool, calculator.ecologits.ai. But there's a problem: these are mainly the hyped, consumer features, not the big use case. We to profile industrial use: "agents" that self-query continuously, automation, full scale coding

calculator.ecologits.ai

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our current sensor deployments use LoRaWAN, which is a multi-gateway star network configuration. We also want to explore Meshcore, so that it's easier for individuals to help build out local environmental monitoring networks.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We are in the midst of a massive extinction event. The easiest way to perceive this directly is to do more listening. We should be hearing birds, animals, insects all around us. Most of us hear almost nothing.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We gotta consider the whole infrastructure. There’s the water used by AI data center, then the water used by the power plants, the water used to manufacture AI chips, and finally the water used to build the power plants and chip factories themselves.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Chamber for demonstrating measurement of groundwater flow changes when a well is 'hard pumped,' depleting normal levels of groundwater.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Preparing demo chamber for our groundwater flow sensor. Simulated ‘well’ on the right.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We see several AI data center projects in dry areas, with plans for water piped in from the Colorado River. So no groundwater impacts right? But the Colorado is running dry, check lake Powell. What's the actual plan here??

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Lake Powell will hit unprecedented lows, but that's the water supply for Tuscon data center... can groundwater recharge for Tuscon's aquifer flow if the Colorado river is running down?

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We are getting ready to take a closer look at the groundwater...

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

OK, so some people are thinking about DIY sonic monitoring of these data centers. Who's game to get some recordings? The best way to solve a problem is to document the problem.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There are 1052 operating data centers in the US with a combined capacity of 48,527 MW, and 1415 planned projects that would add 352,100 MW of additional capacity. The first step is to start crowdsourcing before, during, and after : images, recordings, water and environmental data.

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rriv team @rrivteam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In this moment we have an extraordinary opportunity to properly monitor the build out of a new industrial infrastructure, and put modifications and limitations in place to make sure it's done safely or not done at all.

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