Remember toilet to tap?

That's the slogan often used to defeat propositions for recycling water in California.

But we'll need recycling, and a lot more than that,

as the state water board has cut off all water to Central Valley farmers.

California's water wars.

They're still going after more than 100 years.

First, what about the surge in COVID?

Andy Slavic's book about last year's US response

is titled Preventable.

He headed Medicare and Medicaid for Obama,

then advised Biden on COVID.

His podcast is called In the Bubble. Andy, welcome as always.

Great to be here, Warren. There's been constantly shifting advice from the Centers for Disease

Control. Now you wear a mask, even if you're vaccinated, now you don't. Now you have to wear it again.

You've said on a recent podcast, you wouldn't be surprised if this back and forth

continues. Are people going to get fed up with this and just somehow look the other way?

Well, let's take a step up for a second and zoom out. We have a constantly changing pandemic,

and we need our government agencies to evolve with it and to help us evolve with it.

So whether or not the public is frustrated or tired or confused, I'm sure different people,

all of us are all of those things at various times. We do need our agencies, not to look

backwards, but to continue to look forward as things change.

And what we have today is a different COVID-19 than we had in 2020.

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