Technical Assistance
By Pacific Institute Staff The Pacific Institute lends its technical expertise through targeted assistance to organizations doing work consistent with …
Safe Return and Reintegration
By Pacific Institute Staff Mass incarceration and the challenges faced by people reintegrating after incarceration have profound effects on the …
Planning for Environmental Health
By Pacific Institute Staff Most city planners ascribe to the goal of fostering “healthy cities,” yet determining the best way …
Participatory Action Research
By Pacific Institute Staff Participating in the decisions and activities of carrying out research can have a profound impact of …
Multiple-Use Water Services
By Pacific Institute Staff Recognizing that water is used for different purposes, Multiple Use Water Services (MUS) has emerged as …
Mobile Phone Solutions for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
By Pacific Institute Staff Rapidly growing populations, decreasing water availability, and more erratic precipitation due to climate change are causing …
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Green Jobs and Water
By Pacific Institute Staff The transition toward more sustainable approaches to managing, delivering, and treating freshwater involves workers in many …
Freight Transport Justice
By Pacific Institute Staff Freight transport, or the movement of products and raw materials via truck, train, ship or plane, …
Corporate Water Disclosure
By Pacific Institute Staff Corporate water disclosure – the act of collecting data on the current state of a company’s …
Corporate Water Assessment
By Pacific Institute Staff Companies’ ability to measure and understand their water use and corollary risks and impacts is key …
Conflicts Over Water
By Pacific Institute Staff There are complex and real links between water and conflict. While water resources have rarely been …
Community Resilience to Climate Change
By Pacific Institute Staff Those who have historically contributed the least to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions warming our planet …
Community Mapping Initiative
By Pacific Institute Staff Maps are powerful tools for analyzing and communicating how environmental hazards and resources are distributed in …
Climate Change Vulnerability and Resilience
By Pacific Institute Staff The science of climate change is compelling and strong, and has been for over two decades, …
Climate Change Resilience in Developing Countries
By Pacific Institute Staff Thousands of cities in the developing world are facing rising pressures on institutions and infrastructure due …
Climate Change and Water
By Pacific Institute Staff Since its founding, the Pacific Institute has been at the forefront of research on the impacts …
The CEO Water Mandate
By Pacific Institute Staff The UN CEO Water Mandate is a unique public-private initiative – established by the UN Global …
Business Engagement with Water Policy
By Pacific Institute Staff Many water-related business risks stem from ineffective or non-existent public water policy and management. These risks …
Business Case for Water Sustainability
By Pacific Institute Staff Emerging corporate practice and research suggest that the environmental, political, and social realities of the 21st …
Water, Conflict, and Business
By Pacific Institute Staff Water resources have rarely, if ever, been the sole source of violent conflict or war. But …
Popular Education and Leadership Development
By Pacific Institute Staff Popular education is an approach to building leadership that draws upon the everyday experiences of the …
Bottled Water
By Pacific Institute Staff Sales and consumption of bottled water have skyrocketed in recent years. From 1988 to 2002, the …
Sustainability Standards Systems
By Pacific Institute Staff Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of people …
Soft Path for Water
By Pacific Institute Staff The “soft path for water” defines a new approach to managing water resources. The soft path …
Salton Sea
March 2013 By Pacific Institute Staff California’s Salton Sea is a fertile oasis in the hostile desert of southeastern California, …
Recognizing the Human Right to Water
By Pacific Institute Staff Nearly a billion people in the developing world lack safe drinking water – a necessity most …
Peak Water
By Pacific Institute Staff Freshwater resources are fundamental for maintaining human health, agricultural production, and economic activity as well as …
Desalination and Alternative Supplies
By Pacific Institute Staff Traditionally, freshwater has come from rivers, lakes, streams, and groundwater aquifers. As demand increases and climate …
Business and the Human Right to Water
By Pacific Institute Staff Expectations for businesses to respect and in some cases help fulfill internationally recognized human rights have …
Water Quality
By Pacific Institute Staff Surface water and groundwater are not always static in their natural reservoirs. The water particles are …
Water Privatization
By Pacific Institute Staff In the past two decades, water privatization — turning over some or all of the assets …
Corporate Water Stewardship
By Pacific Institute Staff Companies around the world increasingly recognize the risk that water scarcity, pollution, and weak water governance …
Water and Poverty
By Pacific Institute Staff It is everyone’s wish to be able to wake up each day and turn on a …
Water-Energy Nexus
By Pacific Institute Staff Throughout the 20th century, the connections between water and energy were largely ignored. Water systems were …
Environmental Health and Justice
By Pacific Institute Staff Who profits from our use of environmental resources? Who suffers the consequences of pollution and environmental …
Empowering People and Communities
By Pacific Institute Staff Fundamental needs for environmental health, including safe water and sanitation, justice, and sustainability in poor and …
The Human Right to Water
By Pacific Institute Staff The human right to water is the fundamental right to life, health, and livelihood. The imperatives …
Cadiz Groundwater Plan
Imagine a lake half as large as Lake Tahoe, containing 17 million to 34 million acre-feet of water. That is …
“Climate Change Question and Answer” Fact Sheet
Ruskin’s AB 1365 Updates State Planning Priorities With the threat of climate change growing worse by the day, a historic …
Let’s Start Overcoming Obstacles: Agricultural Water Conservation and Efficiency
The Pacific Institute released a report several months ago on the potential for greater agricultural water conservation and efficiency in areas that …
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Time to Tap into Water-Wise Farmers’ Well of Ideas
Water supply constraints have reduced the amount of water available for California this year, causing economic losses and midseason fallowing …
Panic Makes for Poor Policy
Ignoring a problem tends to make it worse. A worsening problem tends to lead to panic. Panic tends to make …
Lower Colorado River: Proposed Drop 2 Storage Reservoir Project
On February 15, 2007, the Pacific Institute joined several other NGOs in submitting comments (PDF) on the Bureau of Reclamation’s proposed Drop …
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Pacific Institute Responds to Misleading Commentary by Wayne Lusvardi
On Friday February 25th, the Sacramento Bee published an opinion essay by Pacific Institute President Dr. Peter H. Gleick on the pending …
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