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Meteorologist who writes about climate and weather for Slate’s Future Tense
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Eric Holthaus
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FROM Eric Holthaus
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Drinking Our Waste Water Desalination could be one answer to our drinking water problems here in California. But recycling and purifying our wastewater could be a much better and cheaper solution. The problem is the “ick factor”: People don’t like the idea of drinking something that used to be sewage.
To the Point
UN 'Climate Change' Report Says Entire Planet Being Affected More than 110 governments across the globe have now agreed that climate change already threatens the systems that support human existence, and that global action must be taken immediately. That's the latest report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist who writes for Future Tense on Slate.com.
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