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Peter Gleick Testimony Responses on Global Warming

Thank you very much for the opportunity to respond on the record to additional questions, submitted from the Minority. In particular, the nature of the questions shows...

Not Going Away: America’s Energy Security, Jobs, and Climate Challenges

Chairman Markey, Ranking Member Sensenbrenner, and Select Committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on America’s ongoing struggle to deal with increasingly...

The CEO Water Mandate: Guide to Responsible Business Engagement with Water Policy

Access to water is an important strategic concern for many companies, and increased threats to the supply, quality, and reliability of global water resources create substantial pressure for businesses to improve the way they manage water risk.

Overview of Greywater Reuse: The Potential of Greywater Systems to Aid Sustainable Water Management

As pressures on freshwater resources grow around the world, efforts are underway to identify new ways of meeting water needs. Expanding the uses of alternative sources of water previously considered unusable, such as greywater, is one key strategy.

The CEO Water Mandate: Sixth Working Conference

On Monday, November 15, the Mandate and World Economic Forum (WEF) Water Initiative, in collaboration with WWF-South Africa, co-convened a multi-stakeholder workshop aimed.

The Human Right to Water: Emerging Corporate Practice and Stakeholder Expectations

With water issues among the world’s most critical sustainability challenges, businesses must recognize solutions as a core part of corporate water stewardship.

Advancing Community Health through Community Benefits Agreements

The redevelopment of the former Oakland Army Base presents an enormous opportunity for investment in strategies that improve community health.

Comments on SBx7-7 Urban Technical Methodologies

Senate Bill x7-7 was enacted in November 2009, requiring all water suppliers to increase water use efficiency. Below are the highlights of this legislation, divided into two sectors, Urban Water Conservation and Agricultural Water Conservation.

Comments on U5 Process Water Requirements

This letter submitted by Heather Cooley of the Pacific Institute to the California Department of Water Resources, Division of Statewide Integrated Water Management, Water Use and Efficiency Branch contains comments on the state's U5 process water requirements.

California’s Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, Energy, and Money

California’s growing communities and industries require an adequate supply of clean water to thrive into the future. This report suggests that action is immediately needed to reduce the growing tensions over California’s water resources and to address the state’s persistent water supply challenges.

Op-Ed: Moving Forward on Water

Now that California lawmakers have pulled an $11 billion water bond measure off the November ballot, California is facing new questions about how to fix our long standing water problems.

Support for SB 51

This letter to Cailfornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Pacific Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, Audubon California, Sierra Club California, the California Outdoor Heritage Alliance, and the Planning and Conservation League expresses support for SB 51.

How Much Will We Use? Forecasting Urban Water Use in California with Changing Climate, Demographics, and Technology

Global climate change is clearly acknowledged to pose risks to California’s water, though the focus has primarily been on water supply-side changes (e.g. decreased snowpack

The Concept of Peak Water

Increasing competition for resources across the globe reveals the finite nature of the resources that fuel our societies.

Comments on SBx7-7 Urban Technical Methodologies

This letter to the California Department of Water Resources, Division of Statewide Integrated Water Management, Water Use and Efficiency Branch contains comments from Heather Cooley of the Pacific Institute on the public review draft of the SBx7-7 urban technical methodologies.

Pacific Institute Analyzes the 2010 California Water Bond

At the end of 2009, a series of water-related bills was passed by the California Legislature, with the intent of moving the state out of decades of gridlock over water resource management...

Comments on Public Review Draft of the SBx7-7 Urban Technical Methodologies

This letter to the California Department of Water Resources, Division of Statewide Integrated Water Management, Water Use and Efficiency Branch from Heather Cooley of the Pacific Institute contains comments on the public review draft of the SBx7-7 urban technical methodologies.

Notes from the Field: Safe Guarding Water Quality – A Concern for All

Framework for Responsible Business Engagement with Water Policy

Access to water is an important strategic concern for many companies, but increased threats to the supply, quality, and reliability of global water resources add substantial pressure.

“Climate Change Question and Answer” Fact Sheet

With the threat of climate change growing worse by the day, a historic bill to tackle the issue was passed by the California Assembly’s Natural Resources Committee on a bipartisan, 8 to 1 vote.

Comments on SBx7-7 Urban Technical Methodologies

This letter to the Department of Water Resources, Division of Statewide Integrated Water Management, Water Use and Efficiency Branch from Heather Cooley of the Pacific Institute contains comments on SBx7-7 urban technical methodologies.

Notes from the Field:Need for Water Resource Management and Adequate Sanitation

“Water is life,” says 60-year-old Mahama Azundo of Gbulung, a community 5 Km East of Savelugu in the Northern Region of Ghana.

Peak Water Limits to Freshwater Withdrawal and Use

This journal article, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), defines the concept of “peak water,” posturing that water withdrawal for human needs will follow a similar trend to that of peak oil.

Water: Facts, Trends, Threats, and Solutions

Global warming will likely change rainfall and runoff patterns and seriously impact our water supplies both in the United States and abroad. Meanwhile, 1.2 billion people in the developing world still don’t have access to clean drinking water, and pressure from pollution, wetland destruction, and climate change is threatening to make this worse.

Bottled and Sold: What’s Really in Our Bottled Water

There are some great stories in the book: here is a little one, about what's sometimes found in our bottled water.