Urban communities, farms, businesses, and natural ecosystems depend upon adequate, reliable, and affordable supplies of clean water. As populations and …
The Cost of Alternative Urban Water Supply and Efficiency Options in California MORE
There is broad recognition that adapting to climate change, coupled with the need to address aging infrastructure, population growth, …
Moving Toward a Multi-Benefit Approach for Water Management MORE
Comment letter on the progress of Phase 1 of the Salton Sea Management Program sent to the California State Water …
Comment Letter on the Progress of Phase 1 of the Salton Sea Management Program MORE
This comment letter provides feedback and recommendations on the draft report “Options for Implementation of a Statewide Low-Income Water Rate …
Comment Letter on the State Water Board’s Low Income Water Rates Assistance Draft Report MORE
Pressures on water resources are intensifying due to aging infrastructure, population growth, and climate change, among other factors. With vast …
Sustainable Landscapes on Commercial and Industrial Properties in the Santa Ana River Watershed MORE
This comment letter sent to Phil Rosentrater, Executive Director of the Salton Sea Authority, on behalf of Alianza Coachella Valley, …
Comment Letter on the Proposed North Lake Project at the Salton Sea MORE
When a person fails to pay their water utility bill, their water service can be disconnected. Lack of water in …
In 2012, California’s Human Right to Water was passed, calling for safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water for all citizens. …
This issue brief summarizes the current understanding of water and security threats and their links to conflict, migration, and food …
Executive Summary Full Report Per capita water use in the United States has fallen by more than 40% since the …
Integrating Water Efficiency into Long‐Term Demand Forecasting MORE
Stormwater has traditionally been managed to mitigate flooding and protect water quality. However, its potential as a local water supply …
Stormwater Capture in California: Innovative Policies and Funding Opportunities MORE
In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. Two years later, in 2012, …
A Survey of Efforts to Achieve Universal Access to Water and Sanitation in California MORE
Volume 9 in the The World’s Water book series offers insights into critical global water problems, overviews of data and …
Cape Town is parched. Severe drought and high water use have collided in South Africa’s second largest city, and unless …
Op-Ed by Peter Gleick: We Have Seen The Future Of Water, And It Is Cape Town MORE
After more than three years of severe drought, Cape Town, a city of nearly 4 million people, is running out …
Commentary: Cape Town Is Running out of Water. Could More Cities Be Next? MORE
This comment letter to the California State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) was sent in response to the proposed …
Comment Letter on State Water Board Proposed Low-Income Rate Assistance Program MORE
Sustainable Development Goal 6 advocates “ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.” In recognition of the …
While winter rains have refilled California reservoirs and dumped near-record snow on the mountains, communities across the state are wisely …
Op-Ed: Why Go for Desal When California has Cheaper Options? MORE
The severe five-year drought afflicting California from 2012 to 2016 was the driest and hottest in the instrumental record. This …
Impacts of California’s Five-Year (2012-2016) Drought on Hydroelectricity Generation MORE
As of 2017, more companies than ever before were setting water targets, yet global water stress continued to rise. How …
Exploring the Case for Corporate Context-Based Water Targets MORE
Concerns over drinking water quality and possible disease transmission, as well as widely-publicized water contamination incidents, have contributed to a …
California’s Salton Sea is an ecosystem facing large systemic changes in the near future. Managers and stakeholders searching for solutions …
State of the Salton Sea – A Science and Monitoring Meeting of Scientists for the Salton Sea MORE
California’s climate is prone to prolonged periods of drought that are exacerbated by the effects of climate change. The most …
This document identifies six major water-related challenges facing the United States and offers explicit recommendations for the new administration and …
Water Strategies for the Next Administration: New Major U.S. Water Policy Recommendations MORE
This report is the first comparative analysis of water supply and demand management strategies for localities in the State of …
The Cost of Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency Options in California MORE
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) have emerged to specify requirements on a wide range of sustainability metrics, including respect for human …
Meeting Sustainability Goals: Voluntary Sustainability Standards and the Role of the Government MORE
Despite being the United States’ most arid region, the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah …
Water Risk Hotspots for Agriculture: The Case of the Southwest United States MORE
A Community Guide for Evaluating Urban Water Demand Forecasts provides communities, environmental groups, ratepayer advocates, and anyone interested in sustainable water supply planning with the knowledge and tools they need to understand water demand forecasts.
California’s ongoing drought has wide-reaching impacts, from how we grow crops to the price of electricity. Often overlooked is its impact on disadvantaged communities. The Pacific Institute and The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW) conducted community-based participatory research with eight Bay Area community-based groups to explore and document the drought’s impacts on low-income people in the San Francisco Bay Area.
California has a long list of unresolved and difficult water challenges, made more urgent by the severe drought that is gripping the state. As the state’s population continues to grow and climate changes become increasingly apparent, the pressures to identify and implement solutions to these critical challenges have only intensified. Recognizing an urgent need for serious changes in the way water is managed and used in the state, a broad array of stakeholders saw an opportunity to move beyond the traditional rancor and conflict by coming together to identify pragmatic and achievable solutions to urban water challenges.
