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6.24.16- Diablo Canyon, Climate Change, Drought, and Energy Policy
4.27.16- National Geographic ScienceBlogs: Global Droughts: A Bad Year
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9.9.15- Impacts of the California Drought, Part 2: Net Agricultural Income
By Peter Gleick, President and Heather Cooley, Water Program Director California is in a severe drought – four years long …
National Geographic ScienceBlogs: Impacts of the California Drought: Agriculture MORE
By Peter Gleick, President and Heather Cooley, Water Program Director Debates about water in California, the western U.S., and indeed, …
National Geographic ScienceBlog: The Future of Desalination in California is Still in the Future: California, Israel, and Australia
National Geographic ScienceBlogs: The California Drought: Almonds and the Bigger Picture
The Impacts of California’s Drought on Hydroelectricity Production
Tackling Global Sustainability: A Need for Integrated Systems Approaches
The State of the California Drought: Still Very Bad
The most important trend in the use of water is the slowly unfolding story of peak water in the United States and elsewhere. Data on US water use are compiled every five years by the US Geological Survey, covering every state and every sector of the economy. The latest data – for 2010 – have just been released, and they show the continuation and acceleration of a stunning trend: US water withdrawals, for all purposes, are declining, not growing.
