Greg Pierce

Our @NatureWaterJnl comment “Redefining expectations for urban water supply systems to fight wildfire”⬇️. Started working on this w/ Edith de Guzman and Megan Mullin @LuskinCenter 10 days after fires started. We lay out 3 implications from the fires for water supply systems.

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Biggest climate news nobody's talking about: California is "rethinking" its 2035 electric vehicle mandate. Right while Gavin Newsom saunters around Brazil telling the world to follow CA's lead on climate. Details in my newsletter, Climate-Colored Goggles: climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/so-much-for-…

Submit to our Special Collection in WRR on water and equity! @theAGU @aguwater

Please make sure you are only drinking as much water as you REALLY need. We need that for the datacenters. If you’re thirsty, grok is thirsty too.

And @latimes coverage of on-ground mobile water fire-suppression techniques, which draws in part on our report latimes.com/california/sto…

Check out our @UCLA report with @LADWP on fire innovations in four spaces innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/upl…

ICYMI: The UCLA professor draws a line from the Hurricane Katrina disaster to the nationwide struggle for healthy housing. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/homesi…

After fire hydrants lost pressure and went dry, the LA Fire Department faced costly delays in getting more water to fight the Palisades fire. @Hannahnfry latimes.com/california/sto… @latimes

No, you misunderstood, when I said I wanted feedback I meant I wanted you to compliment me a lot

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

The Onion is undefeated.

Not just electricity that's getting too expensive in Southern California -- water bills are a growing problem too, @ByIanJames reports: latimes.com/environment/st…

Who manages your water in Southern California, and why it matters A new @UCLA Atlas reveals fragmented water governance has unequal impacts on affordability, quality, and resilience. ucanr.edu/blog/green-blo… via @LuskinCenter

when do the groceries get cheaper

"What about Bill Clinton?!?!?!" Oh no not Bill Clinton, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

My book “Homesick” comes out in a month! The book asks the question of how shelter became exposure in the US and what we can do about it. dukeupress.edu/homesick (discount code: E25SHPRO)

🚨 We're seeking proposals for nine new research projects 🚨 View Open RFPs ➡️ lnkd.in/dqbrdmiJ 💧 Taking a One Water approach, these requests for proposals (RFPs) focus on pathogens, condition assessment, microplastics, biosolids, methane emissions, and more. 📥Proposals for these projects will be submitted via WRF’s new online portal ✨ 🔎 Refer to our training materials to gain familiarity with the new submission process and allow extra time to navigate the new system ➡️ lnkd.in/dAFJkWdH 📅 The first deadline to submit is October 22, 2025, by 3 pm MT.

NEW: Now that $300+ million in UCLA grants are frozen, will the university follow Columbia, Brown to settle with Trump? @DanielNMiller and I look at the possibility of a big payout — and how California complicates the Trump higher education battle latimes.com/california/sto…

Record transparency in new utility filing on a data center customer! 🔥

It’s well known there are a lot of unlicensed mobile home parks, although no one knows how many. Unsurprisingly it’s very hard to address water issues there