Peter Gleick: Whose Water Is It? Water Rights in the Age of Scarcity
Who “owns” what water? Or, if water belongs to the public, who has the right to use it?
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Peter Gleick: Get Rid of Your Clunker
More on Inefficient Washing Machines (and Toilets and Irrigation Systems)
Peter Gleick: Why Do You Still Have a Top-loading Washing Machine?
My colleagues and I here at the Pacific Institute have been arguing for more than 15 years that California has enormous potential to save water by improving water use efficiency.
Budget Constraints, Anomalies Delay USGS Water Data Release
Budget and personnel issues have delayed the 2005 U.S. Geological Survey national water use data, leaving many in the water world anxiously awaiting its release.
Buried for Decades, Urban Waterways Are Natural Cure for Concrete World
Among the losers of the great twentieth century urbanization were the rivers and streams in cities around the world, soon to be sharing their space with millions of new people.
Peter Gleick: Wake Up, Here is What a Real Water Crisis Looks Like
California is in the midst of an ugly debate about water–uglier than normal–because of a confluence of events, including a “hydrologic” drought caused by nature
Drinking From The Sea
Pressed by growing urban populations, drier and warmer climates and the need to fortify supplies stretched by the increasing worldwide thirst, metropolitan and national governments on five continents are building record numbers of industrial plants to use a nearly alchemic technology to produce drinking water from the sea.
Peter Gleick: Zero or All? What’s Really Happening in the Central Valley?
Here is a short post, with two Water Numbers, and a request for real information if readers have it.
More Water for Fish, NOAA Declares
In an 800-page report, federal officials issued a dire prediction for California’s salmon — they’re just about out of water. The only solution: cut water usage in the Central Valley.
Peter Gleick: Salt from Water, Money from Pockets?
There is always a lot of interest in desalination. I hear it when I give public talks on global and local water issues; I see it in some responses to my blog posts that believe desalination should be much more aggressively pursued
New Legislation to Restore Watersheds & Wilderness in American West
Protection for 2.1 million acres of land and 1,000 miles of rivers.
John Elkington: The Phoenix Economy – a new paradigm for sustainable business
John Elkington discusses The Phoenix Economy, a new report about a possible economic renaissance.
