Peter Gleick: World Water Day 2010 — A trip through one of the worst slums in the world

Like urban slums throughout the developing world, there is almost a complete lack of piped safe water and no formal sanitation. Raw sewage and garbage flow through the streets and drainage ditches. Read more

Peter Gleick: Climate-change Deniers Versus the Scientific Societies of the World — Who Should we Listen to?

My last post said that climate-change deniers have never produced an alternative scientific theory that adequately explains the compelling evidence of climate change from around the world. Read more

Peter Gleick: The Best Argument Against Global Warming

Climate deniers have yet to produce an alternative, scientific argument that come close to explaining the evidence around the world that the climate is changing. Read more

Peter Gleick: Improving Water Infrastructure with Dam Building, but for Whose Benefit?

Part of the debate about water in the Western U.S., and California in particular, always revolves around whether, where, and how to build new dams. Read more

Peter Gleick: Farm Water Success Stories

The Pacific Institute has just released a new report, California Farm Water Success Stories, including a separate video, describing a variety of different examples of innovation in California’s agricultural sector showing the way toward more efficient water management and use. This report is a follow-on to our major 2009 study of the potential for improving water-use efficiency in California agriculture. Read more

Peter Gleick: Water Scofflaws — Go Soak your Heads (Under a Low-flow Showerhead)

After years of inaction, blatant and willful violations of federal law, and lack of enforcement by previous administrations, the U.S. Department of Energy has just announced that they intend to pursue enforcement actions against the manufacturers of water-using appliances that violate national water and energy savings laws that have been on the books for nearly 20 years. Read more

Peter Gleick: Turf Wars

I am participating this week in the 15th Annual Water Conservation and Xeriscape Conference and Expo, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I’ve been thinking about grass. Read more

Peter Gleick: Water Fountain Victory — the Cavs Cave

OK, my crystal ball is often cloudy, but in my last post just two days ago, I predicted that the decision by the Cleveland Cavaliers to remove the drinking water fountains from the Quicken Loans Arena (the Q), ostensibly for health reasons, would ultimately be reversed. Read more

Peter Gleick: Bottled Water Wars, and the War on Tap Water

There is a war going on. The target? Tap water.

In a month or two, I have a new book coming out from Island Press called Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water. Look for it at your local… well, wherever you buy books now. Read more

Peter Gleick: Where to find one million acre-feet of water for California.

An advanced peek at a new assessment

Californians have improved their efficiency of water use over the past 25 years. The state’s economy and population have grown. But total water use has not grown, and per person, each Californian uses far less today. This improvement in efficiency has saved the state’s collective rear end. So far. Read more

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