It’s been 1 year since @NYSDEC and @HealthNYGov launched the Drinking Water Source Protection Program. Dozens of communities have been hard at work devising plans to protect the rivers, reservoirs and aquifers that provide NYS residents with water.

A #DrinkingWaterWeek 🧵 Protecting the sources of drinking water is both a public health and an environmental justice issue, and of course it’s a climate issue. Why?

Here's some local/global context for @fastlerner's important exposé, featuring EPA whistleblowers from the pesticide office and @bennettpeer. theintercept.com/2021/06/30/epa… A thread. 1/7 Use of chemicals, including pesticides, is way up since we formed the EPA and passed our main federal environmental laws - with under-studied potential to disrupt ecological systems of which we are a part. See @DrRiverSci1 of @caryinstitute & others: caryinstitute.org/news-insights/… 2/7

I'm proud and humbled to announce that I'm now serving as Interim Hudson Riverkeeper and VP for Programs for @riverkeeper, and sharing leadership with my colleague Robin Meadows, Interim Chief Administrative Officer. My statement: riverkeeper.org/blogs/keeping-… We’re working toward a vision as simple as it is difficult: ensuring that water sustains all of us, humans and wildlife alike, in the face of climate extremes, an onslaught of toxic chemicals, and a set of laws that has too-often resulted in unjust harms to people ecosystems.