Peter Gleick: How Much Water do YOU Use at Home? |
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A new tool for figuring out our home water and energy and greenhouse gas footprint. |
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Peter Gleick: Massive Water Bond Delayed: Back to more Realistic Water Solutions |
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The California Legislature pulled the massive $11 billion water bond from the November ballot and moved it to 2012. |
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Peter Gleick: The California Water Bond — What Does Proposition 18 Really Say and Do? |
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The costs and benefits of California’s largest water bond in a half century have not been fully assessed by an independent organization. |
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Peter Gleick: ‘And During the Wet Years They Lost All Memory of the Dry Years.’ |
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California has just suffered through three years of drought. Certainly not the first such drought and not the last. |
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Peter Gleick: Water Lessons from Singapore |
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“In a move with all sorts of political, economic, and environmental implications, the government of Singapore recently announced that it will not renew one of its two water agreements with its neighbor Malaysia.” |
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Peter Gleick: Water and Misleading Advertising and Marketing–Where are the FDA and FTC? |
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It should be hard to sell private water. After all, most of the people reading this blog have access, a few feet away, to unlimited, remarkably cheap, high-quality tap water from systems owned by the public. |
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Peter Gleick: More on Climate Deniers and Their Abuse of Science |
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An analysis of the special interest rhetoric behind climate changes biggest naysayers. |
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Peter Gleick: Smart Water Meters, Dumb Meters, No Meters |
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How is it possible that a place like California, with such a long and painful history of water problems, remains so far behind the curve of smart water management? |
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Q&A: Peter Gleick Weighs in on the Bottled Water Battle |
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Why do people buy billions of gallons of expensive bottled water in the U.S., a country where most of the tap water is cheap and extremely high quality? |
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Peter Gleick: Bottled and Sold — What’s Really in our Bottled Water |
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One would think and expect that bottled water would be cleaner than our tap water. But is it? |
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The Himalayas With one-fifth of the world’s population relying on seasonal Himalayan melting, the disappearance of the Third Pole is already giving off warning signs.
Bottomless Precedent: Global Oil Problems Big spills and bigger damage to people and water resources around the globe
Top 19 Solutions to the Global Freshwater Crisis Counting down the 19 best solutions to the global freshwater crisis captured by a GlobeScan and SustainAbility poll.
Bulk Water Exports As demand for freshwater increases globally, a few companies and water-rich countries envision water shipped in large tankers.
Water + Climate It's evident - without water as part of the equation, there can be no long-term solution to climate change.
The Price of Water: A Comparison of Water Rates Across the country there is wide variation in use and price for water consumption in major urban areas.
Industrial Transformation in an Era of Water Scarcity Acute water shortages will change strategy, business operations.
Coal Ash: Toxic Water Dirty Legacy Contaminates Groundwater of an Indiana Town
Tracking the Asian Carp Asian carp have become the poster children of potential threats to the Great Lakes.
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Yunnan China: Water Crisis Yunnan Province is a microcosm of the challenges facing China's vulnerable freshwater supply.
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Patagonia's Hydropower Dilemma In Chile's Trackless Mountain Wilderness, A Clash Between Pristine Rivers and Hydropower Prospects.
The Biggest Dry: Australia The grievous consequences of drought and global warming are more visible and dangerous in Australia than in any other industrialized nation.
Niger Delta: War on Water Thousands Search for Fresh Water, Food in a Monumentally Contaminated War Zone
Water: The Top Global Priority International Circle of Blue | GlobeScan survey finds fresh water pollution, scarcity drive public concern.
