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Drinking water supply is dropping, new group says

Amid ongoing climate change debates, eight water agencies that collectively provide drinking water to 36 million people joined forces to make one thing crystal clear: they need reliable projections on the effects of climate change. The Water Utility Climate Alliance, which launched in late February, is comprised of water agencies struggling to make business projections on water supply because of ambiguity in current climate change research. “We need to understand the science because we don’t know to what extent and how quickly climate change will affect our ability to provide drinking water,” said Susan Leal, general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities… Read More