PRC Water Agencies Grapple With Climate Doom And An Aging Workforce

But, mostly an aging workforce in the People’s Republik Of California

Water agencies grapple with climate change and the ‘silver tsunami’ of an aging workforce

As water agencies across California grapple with the increasingly extreme effects of climate change, they’re also facing another problem: the incoming “silver tsunami.”

That’s the phrase coined by the industry to illustrate the fact that much of the workforce — largely baby boomers — that keeps our water flowing and safe are getting ready to retire.

Nationwide, about a third of the nation’s water workforce is eligible for retirement within the next decade, “the majority being workers with trade jobs in mission critical positions,” the Environmental Protection Agency wrote in a 2024 report. (big snip)

Jobs in the water industry — potable water and wastewater treatment operators, engineers, managers, skilled maintenance, public relations and more — are well paid and secure, Mouawad said, but it’s hard to fill the needed positions.

“We are finding it more challenging to backfill retirees,” he said. “It’s not so much a lack of interest — I think it’s a lack of awareness.”

No, it’s just that the yutes are not interested in doing these kinds of jobs. They all think they are too good for this, that they’re meant to be tier 1 influencers and content creators. So few of them plan for the future. They have their stupid degrees that are pretty much worthless, and don’t want to consider any sort of trade career, in which they can make a lot of money.

In recent years, the water agency has focused on younger potential future employees through a variety of Career and Technical Education programs at local high schools, including in automotive tech, engineering, agriculture, construction and information systems, said Erin Guerrero, Eastern Municipal’s public affairs manager overseeing its education programs.

In fact, the majority of the article is about the lack of new employees and how the older folks are going to be retiring soon, not ‘climate change’. But, it’s pretty much required for “journalists” to include their cult in as many articles as possible.

Meanwhile

Illinois proposal makes businesses financially liable for climate change

A proposal to create an Illinois Climate Change Superfund is drawing sharp criticism from Republican lawmakers who warn it would hand sweeping authority to unelected regulators, drive businesses out of the state and ultimately raise costs for consumers.

Senate Bill 2981 would create the Illinois Climate Change Superfund, financed by payments from entities the state deems responsible for climate change. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency would determine liability, set payment amounts, and direct spending, with at least 40% of funds required to benefit “disadvantaged communities.

Federal courts will kill this, like happened with NJ, but, in the meantime, the fossil fuels companies should stop selling their products to the state government until the suits are resolved, if this passes.