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From Almonds to Rice, Climate Change Could Slash California Crop Yields by 2050

The World’s Water, Volume 9

The newest volume in this highly regarded series, The World’s Water, Volume 9 continues to offer insights into critical global water problems, overviews of data and analysis around water use and management, and case studies of some of the greatest water challenges around the world.

Study: Climate Change Threatens Major Crops in California

Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration

Day Zero: Lessons from Cape Town’s Crisis

For the Growing Global Water Crisis, Climate Change May be the Last Straw

California Drought: Water Conservation Slipping Statewide as Dry Weather Returns

Op-Ed by Peter Gleick: We Have Seen The Future Of Water, And It Is Cape Town

Cape Town is parched. Severe drought and high water use have collided in South Africa’s second largest city, and unless the drought breaks, residents may run out of water in the next few months when there simply isn’t enough water left to supply the drinking water taps.

Commentary: Cape Town Is Running out of Water. Could More Cities Be Next?

After more than three years of severe drought, Cape Town, a city of nearly 4 million people, is running out of water. “Day Zero”—the day city officials estimate the water system will be unable to provide drinking water for the taps—is less than three months away, and substantial rains are not expected before then.

Cape Town is Running Out of Water. Is Los Angeles Next?

Water is Connected to Every Major Global Risk We Face

Water crises have been among the top five global risks in each of the last seven years, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). This year is no exception.

Cape Town’s Water Restrictions Now Limit Residents to Absolute Minimum Needed for Survival

California Water: Desalination Projects Move Forward with New State Funding

Evian Will Make All Its Water Bottles Out Of 100% Recycled Plastic

The Water at This San Mateo County School is Unsafe to Drink — and Has Been for Years

Reno’s Warming Trend Continued in 2017 and Hindered Snowfall

Why Companies Should Dip Their Toes in Clean Water (and Sanitation)

“While considerable progress has been made over the past decade across all areas of development, the pace of progress observed in previous years is insufficient to fully meet the Sustainable Development Goals and targets by 2030.” -United Nations, 2017

The World’s Water Challenges (2017)

Water is perhaps the most vital natural resource on the planet. It is necessary for human survival and a critical input into our food, manufacturing, and energy systems. It also sustains the ecosystems and climates upon which both our built and natural world rely.

Climathon 2017

Watershed Context & Water Stewardship Goals: Why Thinking Local is Critical to Hedging Global Corporate Water Risk

What do the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, destructive monsoon flooding in Mumbai, India, Hurricane Harvey’s devastating storm surges in Texas, the recent five-year California drought, and the hypoxic dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico all have in common?

Comment Letter on State Water Board Proposed Low-Income Rate Assistance Program

This comment letter to the California State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) was sent in response to the proposed Low Income Rate Assistance (LIRA) program implementation scenarios prepared pursuant to AB 401 (Dodd, 2015).

How Your Business Can Play a Role in Ending the Global Water and Sanitation Crisis

No one need explain the true value of water to 54-year-old Elizabeth and her family in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.  She spends more than half her meagre salary on buying drinking water from a local water vendor, as she knows the water from the nearby lake could make her unwell, unproductive and unable to provide for her family.

Corporate Engagement on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene: Driving Progress on Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6)

This report recognizes the need for successful corporate water stewardship to encompass sustainable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) for workers in company supply chains, and offers steps for companies to take to help end the global water and sanitation crisis.

Make Public Drinking Water Fountains Great Again

In February of 2017, the Pacific Institute released a white paper entitled Drinking Fountains and Public Health: Improving National Infrastructure to Rebuild Trust and Ensure Access, which highlighted the limited evidence of a link between illness and disease outbreaks and drinking fountains.

2017 Martz Summer Conference