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Erica Gies is the author of <a href="https://slowwater.world/">Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge</a> an independent journalist who writes for Scientific American, Nature, The New York Times, and other publications. Find her on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-gies-b878b4/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/egies">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://masto.ai/@egies">Mastodon</a>.

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