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Eric Bonds

Eric Bonds

Professor of Sociology at the University of Mary Washington studying climate change, environmental inequality, and data center development in Virginia.

Sep 16, 2026

12:15
That's what you ran up against or researched in your work.
12:19
Yes, absolutely.
12:20
So local counties in my region, Stafford County, Spotsylvania County, had made water allocations, this whole water reuse system, which on one hand, water reuse, it sounds good.
12:32
It's recycling.
12:33
It's literally taking water that would otherwise be cleaned up in, say, Stafford County and then put back into streams.
12:41
That's good, but it also has impacts to water systems.
12:45
It means that there's less water going into our streams and rivers.

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24:38
Are we going to stick our head in the sand, be denialists in this way? Or is there a path forward? Are you hoarding water at home because you don't think that the rest of us are going to do a very good job here?

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