Leslie Sanchez
@lsanch2o.bsky.social
Water Policy and Economics at UC Davis
I study institutions, path dependencies, and environmental inequities in western water and agriculture. www.lesliecsanchez.com
I study institutions, path dependencies, and environmental inequities in western water and agriculture. www.lesliecsanchez.com
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By me: Tribes are running out of patience with #coloradoriver negotiations www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Tribes say they've been left out of Colorado River talks, want a say in any final deal
As western water leaders prepare to gather in Las Vegas, tribal leaders say they want a say in a final agreement.
www.azcentral.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
By me: Tribes are running out of patience with #coloradoriver negotiations www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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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...
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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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"Nevada is completely over-allocated on its groundwater resources. It’s the driest state in the union. Our tribe’s number one goal is protecting our resources." | The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"Nevada is completely over-allocated on its groundwater resources. It’s the driest state in the union. Our tribe’s number one goal is protecting our resources." | The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Save the date! Announcing the 2nd Annual...
** BIG SKY WORKSHOP **
on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment
Hosted by @montanastate and @PERCtweets in Bozeman, MT, June 18-19, 2026
Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students
More info: bigskyworkshop.net
** BIG SKY WORKSHOP **
on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment
Hosted by @montanastate and @PERCtweets in Bozeman, MT, June 18-19, 2026
Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students
More info: bigskyworkshop.net
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Save the date! Announcing the 2nd Annual...
** BIG SKY WORKSHOP **
on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment
Hosted by @montanastate and @PERCtweets in Bozeman, MT, June 18-19, 2026
Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students
More info: bigskyworkshop.net
** BIG SKY WORKSHOP **
on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment
Hosted by @montanastate and @PERCtweets in Bozeman, MT, June 18-19, 2026
Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students
More info: bigskyworkshop.net
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The Colorado Water Conservation Board has officially voted to advance the acquisition of the historic Shoshone water rights for permanent instream flow protection. This milestone helps safeguard flows through a key 2.4-mile stretch of the Colorado River. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4rhsmGX
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The Colorado Water Conservation Board has officially voted to advance the acquisition of the historic Shoshone water rights for permanent instream flow protection. This milestone helps safeguard flows through a key 2.4-mile stretch of the Colorado River. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4rhsmGX
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Smart, nuanced piece by @nealemahoney.bsky.social and @bharatramamurti.bsky.social that centers the essential trade-offs of price controls in this affordability moment (rather than assumes them away in either direction), as well as the politics of tackling them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Smart, nuanced piece by @nealemahoney.bsky.social and @bharatramamurti.bsky.social that centers the essential trade-offs of price controls in this affordability moment (rather than assumes them away in either direction), as well as the politics of tackling them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
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Goods stuff here. We really need to be talking about this topic more. I obviously talk a lot about climate change issues. But this subsidence problem (for Houston & many other places) is also a very, very big deal -- *especially* when compounded by climate change issues.
Multiple Houston suburbs are sinking fast as a rapidly growing population is creating rising demands for groundwater. Here are the billion-dollar solutions Texas officials are working on to mitigate this mostly irreversible phenomenon.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Goods stuff here. We really need to be talking about this topic more. I obviously talk a lot about climate change issues. But this subsidence problem (for Houston & many other places) is also a very, very big deal -- *especially* when compounded by climate change issues.
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“Litigation could take years, if not decades, to resolve. The effects of aridification are unfolding at a faster rate.” @danielrothberg.bsky.social invisiblewaters.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What happened on the Colorado River?
Negotiating around legal uncertainties as climate change takes its toll.
invisiblewaters.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“Litigation could take years, if not decades, to resolve. The effects of aridification are unfolding at a faster rate.” @danielrothberg.bsky.social invisiblewaters.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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Arizona has paused development of hundreds of thousands of homes on the far Phoenix fringes due to insufficient groundwater supplies, @highcountrynews.org finds: www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...
The dried-out subdivisions of Phoenix - High Country News
A groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of homes and pitted affordability against environmental concerns.
www.hcn.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Arizona has paused development of hundreds of thousands of homes on the far Phoenix fringes due to insufficient groundwater supplies, @highcountrynews.org finds: www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...
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Fascinating explanation from Steve Vladeck about why Justice Jackson issued a temporary administrative stay last night that allowed the Trump administration to delay SNAP benefits in November. It's not cruelty. Her stay pressures a lower court to resolve the case quickly.
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fascinating explanation from Steve Vladeck about why Justice Jackson issued a temporary administrative stay last night that allowed the Trump administration to delay SNAP benefits in November. It's not cruelty. Her stay pressures a lower court to resolve the case quickly.
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
(h/t @jswatz.bsky.social)
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents
Los Angeles is set to double the size of a planned facility that will transform wastewater into purified drinking water, recycling enough water to meet the needs of 500,000 people.
www.latimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Argentina gets $40 billion just like that, while the Navajo, Hopi, San Juan River Paiute, and others are hoping Congress will not only approve, but also allocate a measly $5 billion for the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement.
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Argentina gets $40 billion just like that, while the Navajo, Hopi, San Juan River Paiute, and others are hoping Congress will not only approve, but also allocate a measly $5 billion for the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement.
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In today’s @latimes.com:
Owens Valley tribes fight to reclaim ‘land of flowing water’ www.latimes.com/environment/... @carlinstiehl.bsky.social
Owens Valley tribes fight to reclaim ‘land of flowing water’ www.latimes.com/environment/... @carlinstiehl.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In today’s @latimes.com:
Owens Valley tribes fight to reclaim ‘land of flowing water’ www.latimes.com/environment/... @carlinstiehl.bsky.social
Owens Valley tribes fight to reclaim ‘land of flowing water’ www.latimes.com/environment/... @carlinstiehl.bsky.social
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Arizona’s groundwater law has stopped thousands more proposed homes in the Phoenix area than publicly acknowledged.
The dried-out subdivisions of Phoenix - High Country News
A groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of homes and pitted affordability against environmental concerns.
buff.ly
October 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Arizona’s groundwater law has stopped thousands more proposed homes in the Phoenix area than publicly acknowledged.
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.
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You'd think the Colorado River Basin dispute amounts to conflict between the upper and lower basin states based on most coverage, but Tribes and Mexico also have a big role here. We talked with Cora Tso and Sam Sandoval about these issues on Water Talk
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 74: Tribal and Transboundary Issues in the Colorado River Basin — Water Talk
A conversation with Cora Tso (Senior Research Fellow, Tribal Water Policy, Kyl Center for Water Policy, Arizona State University) and Prof. Sam Sandoval (University of California Agriculture and Natur...
www.watertalkpodcast.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You'd think the Colorado River Basin dispute amounts to conflict between the upper and lower basin states based on most coverage, but Tribes and Mexico also have a big role here. We talked with Cora Tso and Sam Sandoval about these issues on Water Talk
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
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This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Self-Generation Incentive Program
The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...
www.ladwp.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Yes: free.
If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
Community Water Center is seeking a Policy Director to join our team and help lead the fight for safe, affordable drinking water in CA. Collaborate with community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to effect lasting change.
🔗Job Description: www.communitywatercenter.org/careers
Community Water Center is seeking a Policy Director to join our team and help lead the fight for safe, affordable drinking water in CA. Collaborate with community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to effect lasting change.
🔗Job Description: www.communitywatercenter.org/careers
September 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
Community Water Center is seeking a Policy Director to join our team and help lead the fight for safe, affordable drinking water in CA. Collaborate with community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to effect lasting change.
🔗Job Description: www.communitywatercenter.org/careers
Community Water Center is seeking a Policy Director to join our team and help lead the fight for safe, affordable drinking water in CA. Collaborate with community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to effect lasting change.
🔗Job Description: www.communitywatercenter.org/careers
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We are hiring at Montana State! Link in thread
If you aren't sure whether you fit the posted topic areas, please don't pre-screen yourself out, let our committee decide!
I'm not on the search committee but happy to answer any general questions
If you aren't sure whether you fit the posted topic areas, please don't pre-screen yourself out, let our committee decide!
I'm not on the search committee but happy to answer any general questions
August 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We are hiring at Montana State! Link in thread
If you aren't sure whether you fit the posted topic areas, please don't pre-screen yourself out, let our committee decide!
I'm not on the search committee but happy to answer any general questions
If you aren't sure whether you fit the posted topic areas, please don't pre-screen yourself out, let our committee decide!
I'm not on the search committee but happy to answer any general questions
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The California Geological Survey is hiring a Branch Chief to oversee 4 key programs in the organization:
🔹Forest and Watershed Geology
🔹Mineral Resources
🔹Geologic and Landslide Mapping and
🔹Burned Watershed Geohazards
Deadline to apply is 8/28.
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
🔹Forest and Watershed Geology
🔹Mineral Resources
🔹Geologic and Landslide Mapping and
🔹Burned Watershed Geohazards
Deadline to apply is 8/28.
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Branch Chief - Watershed and Climate Resiliency
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
calcareers.ca.gov
August 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The California Geological Survey is hiring a Branch Chief to oversee 4 key programs in the organization:
🔹Forest and Watershed Geology
🔹Mineral Resources
🔹Geologic and Landslide Mapping and
🔹Burned Watershed Geohazards
Deadline to apply is 8/28.
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
🔹Forest and Watershed Geology
🔹Mineral Resources
🔹Geologic and Landslide Mapping and
🔹Burned Watershed Geohazards
Deadline to apply is 8/28.
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
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The future of tribal water tights in California. Very interesting, especially for groundwater. californiawaterblog.com/2025/07/27/b...
Bargaining for Tribal Water in California
By Leslie Sanchez and Eric C. Edwards Stark power disparities between Native American tribes (tribes) and nontribal entities in California have shaped tribes’ legal standing to assert wat…
californiawaterblog.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The future of tribal water tights in California. Very interesting, especially for groundwater. californiawaterblog.com/2025/07/27/b...
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🚨 We’re hiring! CWC is looking for a Policy Director to join our Sacramento team & help lead the fight for safe, affordable drinking water in CA.
Work alongside community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to make lasting change. View Job Description: static1.squarespace.com/static/5e83c...
Work alongside community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to make lasting change. View Job Description: static1.squarespace.com/static/5e83c...
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! CWC is looking for a Policy Director to join our Sacramento team & help lead the fight for safe, affordable drinking water in CA.
Work alongside community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to make lasting change. View Job Description: static1.squarespace.com/static/5e83c...
Work alongside community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to make lasting change. View Job Description: static1.squarespace.com/static/5e83c...
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Passionate about using data and research to improve programs and policies focused on California's workforce? So are we! New job opening, just posted: capolicylab.org/careers/data...
July 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Passionate about using data and research to improve programs and policies focused on California's workforce? So are we! New job opening, just posted: capolicylab.org/careers/data...
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As an aside for water and energy nerds: in this highly volcanic and karst dominated area, groundwater is accessible at more than 3k feet (!) and while people might be able to afford a well, they can’t afford the thousands a month it costs to pump water from that depth.
Just got done interviewing a northern Arizona farmer and rancher who was very excited about field testing solar arrays that are mobile and high enough to accommodate cattle grazing. This agenda is so far from what actual living people want and need.
Trump's massive bill reversing Biden's signature climate law will bring a quick end to one of the most meaningful achievements in human history — the existence of cheap solar power.
June 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As an aside for water and energy nerds: in this highly volcanic and karst dominated area, groundwater is accessible at more than 3k feet (!) and while people might be able to afford a well, they can’t afford the thousands a month it costs to pump water from that depth.