Jackie Schuster
@jackieschuster.bsky.social
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Anthropology student studying intersections of water, culture, and politics in California's Central Valley 🌾 🐄 💦
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Especially important to understand moving forward in the CV as CA already has a lot of data centers and more want to move in! fresnoland.org/2025/08/26/c...
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“I was enrolled in the bottled water program offered by Community Water Center...But I decided not to ask for help anymore because I know that most of these programs are funded by the government. I’m afraid that information could be used against me at some point”
www.circleofblue.org/2025/water-p...
ICE Raids in California Block Farmworker Access to Clean Water
Explore the critical issue of California farmworkers' water access amid concerns of immigration enforcement and contaminated water supplies.
www.circleofblue.org
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twyspy.bsky.social
“What it takes to grow food with less pollution isn’t a mystery. But the solution threatens the status quo. You can’t sell as much fertilizer, hybrid seeds or animal feed.”

Excellent deep-dive on water pollution and cancer rates in Iowa

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why Iowa Chooses Not to Clean Up Its Polluted Water
Runoff from fields and feedlots fills Iowa’s waterways with dangerous nitrates. It would be fixable if not for the political and economic power of Big Ag.
www.bloomberg.com
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fkearns.bsky.social
More new groundwater work from ASU colleague Jay Famiglietti & others, this time a global perspective.

“In the American Southwest & California, groundwater loss is a familiar story, but over the past two decades that hot spot has also spread dramatically.”

Paper at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
jackieschuster.bsky.social
““I don’t know how we haven’t coordinated; we’re on our 11th year,” Verboon said in reference to SGMA’s passage in 2014…
It’s not just Boswell and the El Rico GSA, several GSAs aren’t comfortable with each other, he said.”
Tulare Lake subbasin once again being so😭messy😭
sjvwater.org/boswell-sile...
Boswell silent and “blank” as the farming behemoth continues with plans to sink the Tulare Lake bed another 10 feet – SJV Water
Editor's note: Monserrat Solis covers Kings County water issues for SJV Water through the California Local News Fellowship initiative.  While some
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