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 …
Alliance for Water Stewardship
Solving water challenges worldwide cannot be achieved through policy responses alone. Indeed, complementary sustainability strategies rely on economic tools (i.e., …
Notes from the Field: What We Know about Indonesian Urban Residents, Water Utilities, Local Government Agencies and NGOs at the Beginning of Our Third Year Developing WASH SMS
What We Know about Indonesian Urban Residents, Water Utilities, Local Government Agencies and NGOs at the Beginning of Our Third Year Developing WASH SMS
Sustainable Water Management
By Pacific Institute Staff Water is life. Growing pressure on water resources – from population and economic growth, climate …
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 …
Notes from the Field: Mobile Phones Within Reach
Notes from the Field: Mobile Phones Within Reach
Due to their ubiquity in low- and lower-middle income countries, mobile phones are being used throughout the developing world to connect the poor with a range of information and services that can transform their lives: education, election polling information, peer-group (mental health) support, health services, disaster relief, and micro-banking.
Notes from the Field: Resident Says He Would Use Information from Community Choices for Water Tool to Be an Agent of Change
By Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate Jean Zoundiis a 51-year-old man from Bissighin, a community located in the Commune …
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 …
Notes from the Field: Pilot Testing the Community Choices for Water in Ghana
By Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate Over the past 12 months, the Pacific Institute – in partnership with its …
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Notes from the Field: Gofal Sahi Gets Excited with Community Choices for Water
By Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate “When you arrived from Wa at our community, we thought you were another …
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Notes from the Field: Household Water Treatment Could Improve or Maintain Access to Water Coverage
By Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate I heard the good news from the Director of Water and Sanitation for …
Cadiz Groundwater Plan
Imagine a lake half as large as Lake Tahoe, containing 17 million to 34 million acre-feet of water. That is …
Notes from the Field: Pilot Testing the Community Choices for Water in Ghana and Burkina Faso
By Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate After 12 months of conducting learning sessions in Ghana and Burkina Faso to …
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Notes from the Field: Alpha Version of Community Choices for Water Decision-Support System to be Piloted in Ghana
By Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate Over the last year, the Pacific Institute has been conducting learning sessions in …
Notes from the Field: Multiple Use of Water Allows Disabled Man to Live Comfortably
By Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate Abdulai Ibrahim lost his leg during an accident several years ago. Like many …
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Notes from the Field: Waterways
by Meena Palaniappan, Program Director Indonesia is a beautiful place full of people with ready smiles. It is a democratic …
Notes from the Field: Sustainability of Supply: The Story of Community Water Associations (HIPPAMs) in Malang
by Meena Palaniappan, Program Director Imagine if the water you were being supplied with regularly to your home suddenly began …
Notes from the Field: Sanitation Task Force Should be Introduced in Burkina Faso Says Womens Group
by John Akudago, Senior Research Associate Everyone knows that when you cross red traffic light, a ticket is given and …
Notes from the Field: Multiple Uses of Water
by Meena Palaniappan, Program Director The Amprong River in the city of Malang in Indonesia provides a truly rich example …
Notes from the Field: How Can We Promote Sustainable WASH Facilities at the Community Level? Naba Kuliga in Burkina Faso Joins the Discussion.
by John Akudago, Senior Research Associate I took a recent trip to Burkina Faso to conduct a learning session on …
Notes from the Field: The “We are Coming Syndrome” Calls for Community-Decision-Making Tool
by John Akudago, Senior Research Associate for the International Water and Communities Initiative In Ghana, there is a saying that …
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Notes from the Field: DIY: Do-It-Yourself as a Way of Life
by Misha Hutchings, Research Associate DIY is one of those terms that is at once so familiar to me and …
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Notes from the Field: Urban Water Sources in Malang and Makassar, Indonesia
by Misha Hutchings, Research Associate In a tropical country like Indonesia water is available everywhere — pouring down in torrents …
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The Waghad System: Institutions, the Role of Mobile Technology, and Wise Water Use
by Veena Srinivasan, Research Affiliate Waghad Institutions The Waghad system has well developed water institutions that have contributed to it …
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Notes from the Field: Community Learning Sessions in Malang
by Misha Hutchings, Research Associate July 30, 2011 At the beginning of one of the WATER SMS Project learning sessions …
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Notes from the Field: A Success Story in Participatory Irrigation Management in India: The Waghad Farmer Managed Irrigation System
by Veena Srinivasan, Research Affiliate Last week I visited a farmer-managed irrigation system in India’s Waghad Medium Irrigation Project. I passed …
Notes from the Field: Field Report from Hivre Bazar
by Veena Srinivasan, Research Affiliate In the first week of July, I had the pleasure of visiting Hivre Bazar, a …
Comments on SBx7-7 Urban Technical Methodologies
What happens after a bill becomes law? The answer may be more complicated than you think. The Pacific Institute has …
Notes from the Field: Safe Guarding Water Quality – A Concern for All
by Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associate At Lamsheigu, a Surburb of Tamale, Ghana, and about 30 km south of …
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“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 …
Notes from the Field:Need for Water Resource Management and Adequate Sanitation
by Dr. John Akudago, Senior Research Associat “Water is life,” says 60-year-old Mahama Azundo of Gbulung, a community 5 Km …
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Bottled and Sold: What’s Really in Our Bottled Water
Bottled and Sold: What’s Really in Our Bottled Water
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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Research in India: Smelling Like Petrol
For three months in 2005-2006, Pacific Institute Program Director Meena Palaniappan will be conducting research in India. This article is part of …
Research in India: What Would Gandhi Do?
For three months in 2005-2006, Pacific Institute Program Director Meena Palaniappan will be conducting research in India. This article is part of …
Research in India: Happy Pongal!
Harvest celebrations are a commonality across cultures, a time to think about where our food comes from and give thanks. …
Research in India: Counting Toilets in the New Millennium
For three months in 2005-2006, Pacific Institute Program Director Meena Palaniappan will be conducting research in India. This article is part of …
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Research in India: The Holy Grail
For three months in 2005-2006, Pacific Institute Program Director Meena Palaniappan will be conducting research in India. This article is part of a …