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Remaining Drops: Freshwater Resources a Global Issue

Corporations and institutional investors face new risks and challenges relating to water. Uninterrupted access to reliable, affordable and clean water is now a critical issue for the investment and corporate communities because of the increasingly significant effects that water-resource availability and quality are having on economic growth and activity, paths to development and markets around the world.

Research in India: What Would Gandhi Do?

I am always thoroughly impressed and humbled by the dedication and commitment of my NGO colleagues and concerned residents who are involved in the struggle to make Chennai more sustainable.

Research in India: Happy Pongal!

Harvest celebrations are a commonality across cultures, a time to think about where our food comes from and give thanks.

Research in India: Counting Toilets in the New Millennium

The United Nations attempted to answer these questions with a series of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): targets for the international community to achieve in order to improve the health and well being of all people.

Research in India: The Holy Grail

There are passions that drive people. Finding a cure for cancer. Stopping the spread of AIDS. Improving wastewater treatment in India has always been my holy grail (It’s a strange holy grail to be sure. But what is even stranger, I’ve found a small cadre of those who are equally passionate about it).

Research in India: Water Troubles in Chennai

December 28, 2005 - Chennai, India is a really a city that is a song about water, and a poem in contrasts. When I was here two years ago in 2003, Chennai (formerly called Madras) had gone through a 7 year drought, with the hope of a good rain on everyone’s minds and in many prayers.

Beyond Privitization: Restructuring Water Systems to Improve Performance

Water managers face significant challenges meeting the water supply, wastewater collection and treatment, and stormwater management needs of the communities they serve.

Understanding Flows Through the Remnant Colorado River Delta: Recommendations for Streamgage Sites and Data Collection

This white paper asserts that the current lack of data on the last 75 miles of the Colorado River hampers efforts to understand and preserve the river’s threatened final reach.

Water Planning and Conservation Needs: Testimony Before the California Assembly Select Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

California Water 2030: An Efficient Future

What will the future hold for California’s water? Will resources dwindle, causing conflict and hardship, or will increased conservation measures and cooperation provide enough for all?

Deluged by Diesel: Healthy Solutions for West County

There is an estimated six times more diesel pollution released per square mile in the western part of California’s Contra Costa County than in the county as a whole, and 40 times more than in the rest of the state. Diesel pollution has been identified as one of the biggest health threats in California and is linked to cancer, heart disease, premature death, asthma, and other health problems.

Climate Change Questions and Answers Fact Sheet

“After decades of studying climate change, a global consensus has emerged: Climate change is real, has already begun, and poses a grave threat to the United States and the world,” said Dr. Peter H. Gleick, an internationally recognized expert on climate change and water resources. Dr. Gleick is President of the Pacific Institute, a member of the United Nations Sigma Xi Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Advisory Group, and a 2003 MacArthur Fellow.

Climate Change Questions and Answers Fact Sheet

IWMP Evaluation: A Review of the Salton Sea Authority’s Preferred Project Concept for Rehabilitating the Salton Sea

This report, compiled and edited by the Pacific Institute under contract to the Bureau of Reclamation, presents the conclusions generated by an experts workshop that evaluated a proposal to rehabilitate the Salton Sea.

Testimony: Water for Our Future

Freshwater and Foreign Policy: New Challenges

Op-Ed: Selling Out California’s Water

Pacific Institute Responds to Misleading Commentary by Wayne Lusvardi

On Friday February 25th, the Sacramento Bee published an opinion essay by Pacific Institute President Dr. Peter H. Gleick on the pending renewal of heavily subsidized federal contracts associated with the Central Valley Project in California. Although we welcome criticism and open debate, Lusvardi’s attack against our essay is characterized by intentional distortions, simple errors, misquotations, misleading logic, and ad hominem attacks.

Investing In Clean Agriculture: How California Can Strengthen Agriculture, Reduce Pollution And Save Money

Global competition, suburban encroachment, tighter regulations, and rising input costs are making farming in California more difficult and, in some cases, less profitable.

Op-Ed: Project to Provide Public Access to Draft ISO Standards

After the Asian Tsunami Disaster, Water Crisis Will Remain

The tragedy that has unfolded over the past week in Asia reminds us of the power of water to both give life and take it away. As the death toll rises from the earthquake and devastating tsunami, efforts to provide all manner of aid are picking up speed and urgency.

West Oakland Health Survey

Water managers face significant challenges in meeting the water supply, wastewater collection and treatment, and stormwater management needs of the communities they serve.

Economies of Scale and Scope in River Basin Management

This paper provides pragmatic guidance for more effective water management.

The World’s Water, Volume 4

In this fourth volume of his highly regarded series, Gleick and his research team focus on the most significant current trends worldwide: how to meet the basic needs of over 1 billion people without access to clean water, the growing controversy over public vs. private water, the role of conservation and efficiency in solving water problems, and concerns about skyrocketing bottled water use.

The Myth and Reality of Bottled Water

Sales and consumption of bottled water have skyrocketed in recent years. Sales and consumption of bottled water have skyrocketed in recent years. But users should not assume that the purity of bottled water is adequately protected, regulated, or monitored; in many countries, such as the United States, bottlers themselves do most of the sampling and testing, which opens the door to fraud, misreporting, and inadequate protection.