#1616: reservoirs, covid, equity

Tue, 13 Jul 2021, last check: Mon, 11 Nov 2024. Post history

• Reservoir levels in the western United States are at historically low levels, due to low rainfall combined with rising temperatures due to climate change, and endangering water supply in California and neighboring states.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/09/western-reservoirs-drought-california-nevada/ | archive.org
• The U.S. Vaccination Equity Map provides a countywide view of COVID-19 vaccination coverage and social vulnerability as measured by the CDC's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
  https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-equity
• Trees, which help address harmful environmental inequalities, are a critical infrastructure that everyone in every neighborhood deserves, even though in the U.S. a tree-covered map is too often a map of race and income.
  https://www.treeequityscore.org/

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