Water Wars
The challenge is as forbidding as it is global, verily the outcome of the cocktail of burgeoning population, poor management …
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Water increasing factor in global conflicts
The water crisis is one of the most important problems the world faces and will be an increasing factor in …
Water-related violence rises globally in past decade
Violence associated with water has surged in the past decade driven by attacks on civilian water systems in Syria’s civil …
Talking Points: Winter 2020
It’s sometimes said that water is worth its weight in gold. While that may not be strictly true in an …
This Decade We Became Really, Really Sure Climate Change is Real
In the past ten years, we lost hope in American politics, realized we were being watched on the internet, and …
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Basic Sanitation Has to Be Done Fairly, Says Expert
On Wednesday 11, the House of Representatives approved the base text of the bill establishing the new legal framework for …
Water: Its Value and Risks
The prospectus for brewing-giant AB InBev’s $5 billion Asian IPO earlier this year included 58 references to water—an acknowledgment, CEO …
Amid the Wasteland of the Salton Sea, a Miraculous but Challenging Oasis is Born
It came as a bittersweet surprise to biologists and government agencies monitoring the steadily shrinking Salton Sea’s slide toward death …
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Wet, Wintry Weekend Storm Bringing Much Needed Rain to the Bay Area
The rainfall that is arriving in Northern California this Thanksgiving holiday weekend is just the beginning of a wet pattern, …
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An Environmental Movement for Times of War, Too
Oil wells set ablaze in Iraq. Forests pillaged in Colombia. Wildlife populations decimated across the Sahara-Sahel. Around the world, armed …
Explainer: California Faces Decade of ‘Unique’ Wildfire Blackouts
California utility PG&E Corp has imposed 10 intentional blackouts this year to reduce risks its power infrastructure could spark wildfires …
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Explainer: California Faces Decade of ‘Unique’ Wildfire Blackouts
California utility PG&E Corp has imposed 10 intentional blackouts this year to reduce risks its power infrastructure could spark wildfires …
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When It Comes to Climate Change Adaptation, as Goes California, so Goes…the World
It’s almost biblical: Apocalyptic images of fires sweeping through communities. The worst droughts in recorded history, followed by floods overwhelming …
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America’s Biggest Problems are Intensified in California
More nation-state than U.S. state, California is a land of superlatives: the most populous, the most prosperous, home to the …
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India Must Pay Attention to Water Use by Industries
Apart from being major consumers, industries pollute through waste-water discharge. Technologies that have helped industrial economies responsibly use water remain …
Thirsty Future Ahead as Climate Change Explodes Plant Growth
By the end of the century plants could consume substantially more water, leaving less for people across North America, Europe, …
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Power Outages Hit Some of State’s Poorest Communities Hard
PG&E’s unprecedented blackouts over the past month have hit especially hard in some of Northern California’s poorest communities, stripping electricity …
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How Global Warming, Climate Change Contributing to Wildfires, Power Outages
Being in the eye of a California fire-storm is terrifying on its own. But understanding the changing weather forces that …
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No Heat, No Light? Not So Bad. No Water? Much Worse.
When the lights went out this week, Susan Illich of Sebastopol didn’t just lose power. She also lost water. That’s …
Imperial County Seeks to Declare Salton Sea Crisis a Health Emergency; Wants State, Federal Disaster Funds
Imperial County is seeking to declare a public health emergency at the Salton Sea, The Desert Sun has learned, aiming …
Water Board Workshop Examines the Homelessness Crisis’s Relationship to Water
Typical discussions about homelessness tend to focus on its most obvious problem, a lack of shelter. What often gets left …
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Rivers All Across the Globe Are Dropping
Another slow-motion, man-made environmental disaster has been discovered, and it’s underneath your feet.
The EPA’s Roll Back of the Clean Water Act Could Impact Drinking Water for Millions of Americans
The Trump Administration just announced yet another blow to the country’s environmental protections.
Unquenchable Thirst: Groundwater Bill Could Shift State’s Water Management Approach
The latest salvo is California’s long-running water wars, SB307, has the potential to emerge as one of the most important …
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Three Thought-Provoking Analogies for Climate Change
Though by definition no analogy is perfect, a good one can create a flash of insight or provoke thought. A …
Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come. The real question …
The Amazon rainforest fires are shaping the G7 summit, where world leaders like Trump and Macron are convening
Concern over a record number of fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest are influencing the political discourse as world leaders convene …
How the plastic bottle went from miracle container to hated garbage
The evolution of the plastic bottle from amazing to scourge of land and sea has played out inside of a …
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Amid Rising Water Rates, Massachusetts Cities Have Inequitable Affordability Policies, Report Finds
Some Massachusetts cities shut off water to enforce timely bill payment. Others place liens on the property that result in …
Are We Doomed by Climate Change?
Fast-thinking innovation is needed to prevent ‘wetter wets, drier dries, hotter hots’ from threatening the state’s crops, species and economy.
Farmers use tech to squeeze every drop from Colorado River
This U.S. Department of Agriculture station outside Greeley and other sites across the Southwest are experimenting with drones, specialized cameras …
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Grim Choices as California Disappears Under Sea Level Rise
Wildfire and drought dominate the climate change debates in the state. Yet this less-talked-about reality has California cornered. The coastline …
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9 Foods That Are Making The Drought Even Worse
It takes more than 1,500 gallons of water to make a chocolate bar. Consider limiting your consumption of these foods …
Sea, Sun, and Peace?
An environmental group wants to unite Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians behind the idea that water can bring peace in the …
Podcast: Speaking of Water With Peter Gleick
Here with Dr. Peter Gleick, co-founder and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute. Peter serves on the Circle of Blue …
Examining the Water Crisis
As an expert on water and climate issues, Dr. Gleick joined the podcast to talk about the crisis we face, …
Speaking Of Water With Peter Gleick: California Drinking Water Bill
In the latest episode of Speaking of Water, host Eileen Wray-McCann speaks with Dr. Peter Gleick, President Emeritus of the …
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The Daily Digest: Peter Gleick on the CA’s drinking water bill
But the reality is that even in this country, there are many, many people without access to what most of …
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The Future of Hydropower Energy
What does the future hold for the world’s largest renewable energy source, hydropower? Hydropower is an incredibly old source of …
Study: More than 200,000 Californians lacked toilets or hot and cold running water in 2015
A new report from the Pacific Institute finds that in 2015, 208,000 Californians lacked toilets, while 211,000 lacked hot and …
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Tropical Storm Barry Could Hit the Gulf Coast With ‘Unprecedented’ Flooding. Climate Change Is Likely to Blame
The Mississippi River is already bursting as a result of months of flooding in the midwest and south — and Tropical Storm Barry is …
Would You Drink Water Out of a Can?
PepsiCo said Thursday that it would test-market canned Aquafina water early next year as a more environmentally friendly alternative to plastic bottles. About the …
Can Providing Bathrooms to Homeless Protect California’s Water Quality?
Each day, people living on the streets and camping along waterways across California face the same struggle – finding clean …
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No, Canned Water Will Not Save the Planet
Ever & Ever believes people care enough about the planet to stop drinking water from disposable plastic bottles. But not enough …
Thirsty for solutions, water managers are putting AI-powered tools to work
When Meena Sankaran was a child growing up in Mumbai, India, her family didn’t have consistent access to water in …
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As Water Scarcity Increases, Desalination Plants Are on the Rise
Each day 100 million gallons of seawater are pushed through semi-permeable membranes to create 50 million gallons of water that …
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Lowville Had Lots of Water. Then String Cheese Came to Town.
When the Philadelphia Cream Cheese factory here started making string cheese, too, in the summer of 2017, it brought scores …
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Can Lower Manhattan survive climate change? New York’s sea level rise plan faces pushback
Jainey Bavishi, the woman tasked with overseeing a new $10 billion plan to save Lower Manhattan from sea level rise, …
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‘We live in fear’: Facing dry times, rural South Africans rethink water
At the height of the 2015 drought that parched South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, Julie Mkhize had to pull carcasses …
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In Los Angeles ‘water colony’, tribes fear a parched future
When the first white settlers arrived in California’s remote eastern Owens Valley, the name given to its indigenous tribes was …
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