Building on over thirty five years of innovative research and thought leadership, the Pacific Institute is significantly accelerating and scaling our reach and impact in response to the mounting water crisis. We have set a 2030 organizational goal to catalyze the transformation to water resilience in the face of climate change. We have four core focus areas: Water Equity, Water Efficiency and Reuse, Nature-Based Solutions, and Corporate Water Stewardship.
WATER EQUITY
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Water Equity
Around the globe, approximately 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water, and around 4.2 billion people lack safely managed sanitation. Even in the United States, access to water and sanitation is not universal. Climate change threatens to worsen income disparities and current inequities in access to clean, reliable, and affordable water and sanitation.
It is imperative that climate resilience strategies address the needs of frontline communities and that efforts to meet water and sanitation needs consider climate change impacts.
The Pacific Institute is addressing climate impacts on access to water and sanitation, as well as livelihoods and well–being for frontline communities in the United States and around the world. This critical work helps ensure investments that address the current humanitarian crisis also consider climate change and the related uncertainties.
WATER EFFICIENCY AND REUSE
Water Efficiency and Reuse
Water efficiency and reuse are powerful, albeit still underutilized, strategies for enhancing water sustainability and resilience. They can help to reduce water withdrawals from over-tapped rivers and aquifers as well as vulnerability to droughts and other water-supply constraints. Moreover, water efficiency and reuse can save energy, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change.
The Pacific Institute is at the forefront of assessing water efficiency and reuse opportunities and their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. While communities around the world are now implementing these strategies, far more can and must be done. We work to innovate new solutions and scale proven approaches, providing decision-makers and communities with the knowledge and tools they need to implement water efficiency and reuse strategies.
NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based solutions use or mimic natural processes to meet societal and environmental needs. They can be used to restore, manage, or protect water resources while also increasing biodiversity and providing additional social and economic benefits.
The Pacific Institute is working to scale uptake of nature-based solutions that support more climate-resilient water systems and the communities they support, while reducing the severity of climate change through carbon sequestration and storage. We work to identify and advance solutions that catalyze investments in nature-based solutions and connect stakeholders with shared interests around those solutions.
Corporate Water Stewardship
Corporate Water Stewardship
The Pacific Institute has long been known for its ability to inform and mobilize the business community to take water action. A 2004 Pacific Institute report was among the first to call the global business community’s attention to intensifying water risks.
Since 2007, the Pacific Institute has convened the private sector to take action on water through the CEO Water Mandate. Working in partnership with the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, the CEO Water Mandate offers a powerful forum for more than 350 companies to share practices and forge partnerships to address urgent water challenges.
The Pacific Institute also partners with the United Nations Global Compact to directly engage CEOs from major companies to elevate water action on corporate agendas. Launched in 2020, the Water Resilience Coalition convenes some of the world’s most influential companies and CEOs to build water resilience in their operations and supply chains. These companies are also taking collective action in 100 high-priority basins identified by the Pacific Institute. Today, companies with operations in more than 140 countries have joined the effort. Together with local communities and NGO partners, they are investing in river basins across Asia, Africa, South America, and North America.
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