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Comment Letter on Recommended Updates to Los Angeles’ Safe, Clean Water Program

Investing in water management can provide multiple benefits to communities and the environment. During 2019 and 2020, the Pacific Institute engaged with stakeholders in Los Angeles, California to increase consideration of co-benefits as part of their innovative, regional stormwater funding, called the Safe, Clean Water Program.

California Is Making Progress on Safe Water for All, but Work Remains

October 2020 Newsletter

The monthly newsletter features the Pacific Institute’s research, publications, news about past and upcoming Institute staff outreach efforts, and media coverage of its work and analysis.

Key Take-Aways from the Webinar on Setting Site Water Targets to Drive Action in India and South Africa

The CEO Water Mandate and the Pacific Institute held a webinar on August 18, 2020, titled “Lessons from India and South Africa: Setting Site Water Targets to Drive Action.”

Solutions for Underperforming Drinking Water Systems in California

October 29, 2020, Oakland, California – The Pacific Institute just announced the release of a report that identifies solutions for water systems in California that are failing to provide safe drinking water for their residents. The report also includes lessons learned from these underperforming water systems that can be applied to the rest of the nation.

Solutions for Underperforming Drinking Water Systems in California

California passed the Human Right to Water in 2012, acknowledging that every resident has a right to safe, clean, and affordable drinking water. Both large and small water systems struggle to provide safe drinking water; however, small systems face the greatest challenges.

Water Recommendations for the Next Administration

America is at a crossroads. We can continue to overlook the nation’s water problems, even as scarcity, pollution, and climate changes increase risk, or we can take steps to make our water systems more effective, resilient, and equitable.

Smart Water Supply and Sanitation Investments Can Meet Both Humanitarian and Climate Goals

October 22, Oakland, California – Smart investments in water supply and sanitation can benefit both the climate and those living in poverty, finds a new report from the Pacific Institute and Water.org. 

Financing Water Supply and Sanitation in a Changing Climate

Human-caused climate change is real and accelerating, creating new challenges for all aspects of freshwater management, including meeting basic human needs for water and sanitation. Important gaps in our understanding of these challenges include both the complications climate change poses for planning, implementing, and sustaining water supply and sanitation systems, especially for the poor; and the links between these systems and the emissions of greenhouse gases that worsen the overall climate problem.

Rebuilding Through Collective Action on Water and Hygiene: Practical Guidance from WASH Experts and Business Leaders

During this virtual session leading businesses and WASH experts shared how companies can take action on WASH to contain the pandemic within their operations, supply chains and surrounding communities.

Water Futures Meet Cool Reception

Untapped Potential: Water Innovation to Advance the SDGs

In this session, we participated in a dialogue among key UN players driving the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework and C-suite executives who have pledged support for the Water Resilience Coalition to explore how innovations in supply chain management, technology, and governance practices can advance the 2030 Agenda.

Capturing Water While Supporting Ecosystems: Report Provides a Pathway for Water-Conscious Communities to Keep Their Rivers Flowing

October 12, 2020, Oakland, California -- As forward-thinking cities become increasingly adept at capturing and reusing wastewater, stormwater, and greywater, essential river systems may be at risk. A report released last month suggests deliberate, community-driven planning is urgently needed to avoid depriving adjacent waterways of necessary water.

Ensuring One Water Delivers for Healthy Waterways: A Framework for Incorporating Healthy Waterways into One Water Plans and Projects

As forward-thinking cities become increasingly adept at capturing and reusing wastewater, stormwater, and greywater, essential river systems may be at risk. The “One Water” approach to water management emphasizes an integrated planning and implementation approach that acknowledges the finite nature of water resources and prioritizes long-term resilience and reliability.

Greta Thunberg Uses Popular Meme to Show the Devastating Cost of Climate Change

From Source to Tap: Assessing Water Quality in California  

Water providers in California face myriad challenges in sustainably providing high quality drinking water to their customers while protecting the natural environment. 

Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation to Leverage the SDG6 in the Business Agenda

This World Water Week 2020 session aimed to create dialogue around the undeniable link between climate change and its impact on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).

Building Resilience at All Levels – From Local to National

This webinar discussed water challenges resulting from Brazil's precarious urbanization and explores solutions to deal with these challenges.

Nature-Based Solutions to Address Water Scarcity Due to Climate Change

This webinar from World Water Week 2020 fostered dialogue around the central role that nature-based solutions (NBS) plays in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the social, economic and environmental co-benefits.

Goals House Day 3 – Clean Water and Sanitation Saves Lives

Hosted by ABI InBev, Water.org and Reckitt Benckiser the Clean Water and Sanitation Saves Lives panel will focus on how access to clean water and sanitation as a crucial live source is to ensure communities are able to function and to save lives.

September 2020 Newsletter

The monthly newsletter features the Pacific Institute’s research, publications, news about past and upcoming Institute staff outreach efforts, and media coverage of its work and analysis.

UN Global Compact Water Resilience Coalition Partners with WaterAid to Call for Collective Action on Water Access 

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 23 September 2020 — The Water Resilience Coalition, an industry-driven, CEO-led initiative of the United Nations Global Compact, has launched “Water is Resilience: A Call for Collective Action on Water Access” in partnership with WaterAid as part of the global response to COVID-19. 

Pacific Institute at Climate Week NYC 2020 

It is vital that the global community not quickly forget the COVID-19 crisis, but draw lessons from it to rebuild more equitable and sustainable societies. This week, for Climate Week NYC 2020, the Pacific Institute will participate in sessions focused on the role of the business sector in advancing water resilience and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The focus of this year’s event from September 21st to 27th is rebuilding after the COVID-19 pandemic using lessons learned to pursue an equitable transition to a net-zero future.  

Ending Conflicts Over Water

In recent years, a wide range of water-related factors have contributed to political instability, human dislocation and migration, agricultural and food insecurity, and in more and more cases, actual conflict and violence.

Ending Conflicts Over Water: Solutions to Water and Security Challenges

Seventeen countries, home to a quarter of the world’s population, face extremely high water stress, according to recent analysis from the World Resources Institute. Billions of people face other growing water challenges as well, including highly polluted water, increasingly erratic rainfall leading to more severe droughts and floods, and lack of access to safe and affordable drinking water.