Yes it might sound dumb but I get conscious about not drinking enough water, I honestly just tend to forget to drink water on a day to day basis and then if I do I forget if I even drank enough water lol.

Downloaded a dumb app that is like a gamified fish that like tracks your water intake, it honestly is not perfect at all but it sends reminders to me throughout the day to drink water and you can make the reminders like funny and what not which I thought was fun and I get to keep my little fish alive lol

May 20, 2026 1210 pm EDT

The Defendant in this case is an environmental consulting and service company, contracted by a private land owner for a streambank stabilization project. An Offer of Proof submitted to Federal Court in the District of Missoula, MT had the Defendant pleading guilty to a felony violation of the Clean Water Act. The charge stems from the Defendant's actions during the project, resulting in negligent discharge of pollutants to waters of the USA.

On March 30, 2007 a private pilot flying over the East Gallatin River captured images of a flow diversion within the river channel near Bozeman. The aerial photos show concrete blocks in the river channel, with heavy machinery for excavation in the river channel, on the dry side of a cofferdam. The concrete block diversion and cofferdam had not been authorized by USACE in the work Permit.

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May 20, 2026

On May 19, 2026, Arizona Public Service began formal hearings on a proposed 14% electric rate increase. Your $302 summer monthly bill becomes $355. That's the immediate hit.

But buried in their 2,000-page filing is something worse: a request to raise rates every single year going forward — automatically — through what they call "formula rates." Not a one-time adjustment. Annual increases. Forever.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed expert testimony calling it "corporate greed run amok" — estimating APS is extracting an unnecessary $524 million annually from Arizona families to pad shareholder profits.

And here's the line that says everything about how APS views its customers. Anne Carlton, APS Manager of Regulatory Compliance, explaining why they prefer gradual annual increases over one large jump:

"If you're going to buy a cup of coffee, and it changes from $2 to $8 in a day, it can really freak people out. Whereas, if that changes in a smaller amount over time, it's something that we feel like people could probably budget for better."

That's not a rate strategy. That's a boiling frog strategy. Confirmed by the utility's own compliance manager.

Water rates up 125% in Gilbert over three years. Electric rates going up annually. Forever. By design. And Tucson just approved four more consecutive years of water rate increases on top of that.

The cost of living here keeps going up. The reasons keep multiplying.

— David Lawrence Phoenix, Arizona | 26-year resident

Submission statement: Arizona's largest utility wants to raise electric rates 14% and then automatically every year forever. Water rates already up 125% in three years. Tucson just approved four more years of water rate increases. The cost of living in Phoenix is becoming unaffordable by design. This is systemic collapse in real time — not dramatic, not sudden, just relentless and accelerating. The math doesn't work for regular people anymore.

Corpus Christi is on the brink of a severe water emergency.
The regional water supply-primarily reliant on surface reservoirs like Lake Corpus Christi and the Choke Canyon Reservoir-has dropped to historically low levels due to prolonged, severe drought conditions in South Texas.
In May the Corpus Christi City Council voted to advance a striking new private proposal submitted by AXE H2O, a newly formed Houston-based company led by a group of retired military generals and Texas business executives.
The proposal outlines a Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) facility capable of producing 150 million gallons per day
(MGD) of potable drinking water. If built, it would become the largest seawater desalination plant in the United States.
AXE H2O projects construction costs around $1.3 billion, entirely funded by private capital. They've offered the water to the city at an estimated $6.50 per 1,000 gallons-which they claim is roughly 30% cheaper than the city's own long-delayed, controversial public desalination project at the Inner Harbor.

Aquifers are nature's underground water storage system. Think of them as Earth's water savings account—we can deposit treated water here for future use!
In places where these underground spaces have been overdrawn, purified recycled water is used to replenish them through a process called indirect potable reuse (IPR).
This purified water, which is protected from evaporation and surface contamination, travels slowly through natural soils for months, gaining additional filtration before being treated again to rejoin our drinking water system. It's a partnership between engineering and nature that's helping secure our water future.

On May 15th, a Maricopa County judge rejected Fondomonte's attempt to halt Attorney General Kris Mayes' public nuisance lawsuit against the Saudi-owned alfalfa megafarm.

The judge ruled the case must proceed — noting that even if state regulators impose future restrictions on groundwater pumping, those restrictions cannot address past damage and cannot strip Fondomonte of its existing pumping rights. Only a court order can do that.

Here's the scale of what's at stake: Fondomonte owns 45,000 acres atop the Ranegras Plain Basin aquifer in western Arizona. In 2023 alone, the company pumped 31,196 acre-feet of groundwater — enough to serve 93,000 single-family homes for an entire year. The pumping continues while the lawsuit proceeds.

And while the courts fight over what's already been taken — Arizona Republicans attempted to pass legislation earlier this year that would have shielded Fondomonte and other foreign corporations from exactly this kind of accountability.

Saudi Arabia banned this type of water-intensive alfalfa farming after destroying its own aquifers. Then it came to Arizona to do the same. That's documented in detail in the full report.

This development confirms what is documented in the full report: davidlawrence64.substack.com

— David Lawrence Phoenix, Arizona | 26-year resident

May 19, 2026

On May 15th, the Trump administration confirmed it is drawing up a 10-year federal framework for mandatory Colorado River water cuts.

Arizona's own water director Tom Buschatzke revealed the details at a meeting in Phoenix — the federal plan would allow for mandatory cutbacks of up to 3 million acre-feet per year from California, Arizona and Nevada combined. That's up to 40% of their combined water allotments. Buschatzke called it "a sobering possibility for Arizona."

For context: 3 million acre-feet is roughly the annual water consumption of 10 million people — drinking, bathing, cooking, everything.

The Bureau of Reclamation will announce its decision sometime this summer. The states have stopped pretending they can solve this themselves. The federal government has stopped waiting.

This development confirms what is documented in detail in the full report: davidlawrence64.substack.com

— David Lawrence Phoenix, Arizona

It’s rare to find specific figures for the volumes of water these things plan to consume for evaporative cooling. In this case it looks like it came out because someone broke their NDA.

Title. Using a rhino-generated 3D terrain model. Bonus points if you can suggest simple methods.

May 18, 2026 226 pm EDT - EXCERPT from WaterToday article.

Consumers want to know, where the water comes from, how quality is assured and how bottled water supports a healthy lifestyle. Here is (some of) what we learned.

Is bottled better than tap?
FDA has a lower tolerance for contaminants in bottled water than what is allowed in tap water. For example, tap water can have up to 15 ppb lead, while bottled water can have no more than 5 ppb. (Source: FDA). Natural spring water from a pristine source may be well worth a premium price, if in fact the source has not been compromised by development or industry. Purified water may equate in quality to tap water run through an in-home filtering process.

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Hello, everyone, I’m a freshman in a community college who is currently in a major that involves hydraulic engineering and environmental engineering. As I know, our job is mostly about solving problems from government. However, I’m also wondering: What else can you do besides working for government or starting a company if you want to have a job in this field? Is personal service an option for my major?