By Peter Gleick and Charlie Iceland In the hot, dry Middle East, where populations are growing rapidly and all major …
Water Is a Source of Growing Tension and Violence in the Middle East MORE
By Abbey Warner and Giuliana Chaves Moreira Brazil’s water basins hold 12% of the world’s freshwater, yet the country continues …
By Cora Kammeyer Water crises have been among the top five global risks in each of the last seven years, …
By Abbey Warner “While considerable progress has been made over the past decade across all areas of development, the pace …
Why Companies Should Dip Their Toes in Clean Water (and Sanitation) MORE
10.10.17 – Watershed Context & Water Stewardship Goals: Why Thinking Local is Critical to Hedging Global Corporate Water Risk
8.23.17 – How Your Business Can Play a Role in Ending the Global Water and Sanitation Crisis
6.22.17 – Make Public Drinking Water Fountains Great Again
6.12.17 – Mobile Apps to Quench Your Thirst: A Review of Public Drinking Fountain Finders
4.22.16 -Thirsty for Change? 4 Ways to Improve Corporate Water Targets
03.08.17 – National Geographic ScienceBlogs: National Water Infrastructure Efforts Must Expand Access to Public Drinking Fountains
12.1.16 – National Geographic ScienceBlogs: From Scientists to Policymakers: Communicating on Climate, Scientific Integrity, and More
7.21.16 -U.S. Bottled Water Consumption on the Rise: What Does It Mean?
7.29.16 -On Methods for Assessing Water-Resource Risks and Vulnerabilities
6.24.16- Diablo Canyon, Climate Change, Drought, and Energy Policy
4.27.16- National Geographic ScienceBlogs: Global Droughts: A Bad Year
3.25.16- Huffpost Green: An Open Letter From Peter Gleick: My Transition at the Pacific Institute
2.17.16- National Geographic ScienceBlogs: Water, Security, and Conflict: Violence over Water in 2015
2.8.16- Moving from Theory to Practice: A Synthesis of Lessons about Incentive-Based Instruments for Freshwater Management
2.4.16- Huffington Post: The Most Important Water Stories of 2015
1.29.16- Sanition and Water for All Partner Perspectives: One Year On: Companies and Respect for the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
12.15.15- Huffington Post: The Historic, Unprecedented, Landmark Climate Agreement
12.10.15- Huffington Post: Climate Science in 1956 and 2015
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
8.12.15- Huffington Post: The New UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Fresh Water
8.4.15- New Data Show California Cities’ Progress towards State-Mandated Conservation Requirements
By Peter Gleick, President and Heather Cooley, Water Program Director Debates about water in California, the western U.S., and indeed, …
Huffington Post: Laudato Si’ and Water: The Vatican’s Encyclical Letter and Global Water Challenges
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
Huffington Post: Where Does California’s Agricultural Water Go?
New Data Show California Cities’ Response to Drought Is Highly Uneven
The Impacts of California’s Drought on Hydroelectricity Production
Tackling Global Sustainability: A Need for Integrated Systems Approaches
Knowing and Showing that Companies are Respecting the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
The State of the California Drought: Still Very Bad
The Growing Influence of Climate Change on the California Drought
New Data Show Residential Per Capita Water Use across California
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.
California voters have approved Proposition 1 – the 2014 California Water Bond. The ultimate value and effectiveness of the bond will depend on how it is implemented and how the funds are spent. Here are some key issues to watch, things to understand about the new water bond, and recommendations:
On November 4, California voters will decide the fate of Proposition 1 — the 2014 Water Bond — which authorizes the sale of $7.12 billion in new general obligation bonds and the reallocation of an additional $425 million of previously authorized, but unissued, bonds.
In a new study just published by the journal Sustainability Science (Springer), analysis from the Pacific Institute shows that many of the fundamental responses of California water users to severe drought actually make the state’s overall water conditions worse — that in the end, many of these actions are “maladaptations.”
