Doug Bennett🦨
@WaterDoug
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Desert dweller, Las Vegas #water efficiency professional, #sustainability advocate. Tweeting at my own discretion.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Joined July 2009
Deflated, but not down in the dumps. Neighbor's Eagles balloon refuses trip to the landfill.
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Cleaning up an address book after 23 years is like browsing a scrapbook of your professional life. More than 2,300 entries, some of which bring back fond or painful career memories. Some who passed, but I find it difficult to delete them.
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I'm always excited to participate in @ImagineH2O vetting process. It's fun to see the solutions of the future. Some great potential in this round.
The future of water is here, and it's looking brighter every day because of the groundbreaking work of these top #watertech #startups. Announcing Imagine H2O’s 2023 Cohort - The Game Changers of Water Innovation https://t.co/V61b1Y8PVY
@11thHourRacing
#futureofwater
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In southern NV, the carbon sequestration of a lawn is exceeded by the discharge created by the first two inches of irrigation water. A typical lawn here gets 117 inches of water applied via sprinklers. Your lawn is carbon neutral until about Valentine's Day.
Time to branch out? Trees put lawns in the shade when it comes to tackling climate crisis
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"The most positive thing to come out of crwua seemed to be that everyone was calling the crisis a crisis. That much was considered common ground." https://t.co/z5yqEbzLWB
newyorker.com
Farmers, bureaucrats, and water negotiators converged on Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, to fight over the future of the drought-stricken Southwest.
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From mountain ranches in Wyoming to vegetable fields in Yuma, water users look for ways to keep the Colorado River flowing. https://t.co/GPJ1LAX3lR
azcentral.com
From mountain ranches in Wyoming to vegetable fields in Yuma, water users look for ways to keep the Colorado River flowing.
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Summary of today's bike ride near Boulder City: Tailwind=Superman Headwind=Kryptonite
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Just look at the pitting on that sidewalk! Overspray and runoff is hard on our urban infrastructure, too. https://t.co/U55L1dDS7p
apnews.com
Thirty water agencies that supply cities across the western United States are pledging to rip up lots of decorative grass to conserve water in the over-tapped Colorado River.
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Collaboration is the key to success for CR stakeholders. These are meaningful commitments from cities across the basin.
Through a Memorandum of Understanding delivered to the @usbr, the SNWA & water agencies in the Upper & Lower Colo River Basin affirmed their commitments to implement comprehensive & innovative water conservation programs, initiatives, policies & actions within their communities.
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Every community has to find policies and programs that fit their unique needs. It's not always what the neighbors are doing. https://t.co/UxWW5BeDwf
fox13now.com
Golf course “water budgets.” Pool size limits. A complete ban on grass landscaping. Full-time water-wasting investigators. The Southern Nevada Water Authority is hard core in water conservation.
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“Las Vegas is showing it can be done, it can be successful and it can be done with community support.” https://t.co/3JaNJUpEpA
fox13now.com
Patricia Council stood on her front yard and smiled, glad to see her lawn finally go. “I decided to convert it, number one because of the water issue,”
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@LVVWD serves about 70% of the region, including the Las Vegas Strip. New buildings will use waterless technologies, while older buildings will have access to incentives for efficiency improvements.
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Jeremy Aguero of @AppliedAnalysis: "...these types of issues lead people to believe we are somehow curtailing our ability to grow and expand. I believe it is exactly the opposite... What we are doing here is essentially preserving our prosperity for generations to come."
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Through outreach, research and collaboration, the measure had support from @NAIOPSNV, the Nevada Resort Assn, the Governor's Office of Economic Development and other critical stakeholders.
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Today, the Board of the Las Vegas Valley Water District unanimously supported a policy to prohibit installation of evaporative cooling in new commercial projects. This community is galvanized in its support for innovative water management solutions.
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Cooling system evaporation is second only to landscape irrigation in driving Southern Nevada's consumptive water use. Tomorrow, the @lvvwd board considers an innovative policy to require waterless cooling solutions in new commercial development.
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Every time I go to my app dev team. What I think is hard is often simple. What I think is simple is often hard.
@polotek An engineer will either tell you something is impossible, and proceed to do it in 20 minutes or tell you it’s trivial before realizing it’s actually going to take 2 years. There is no in between.
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My wife used to track people with ankle bracelets for City of Las Vegas. She would appreciate the diligence.
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