Peter Gleick: Time for a “Cash for Water Clunkers” Program
The international water expert proposes a plan to ensure the long-term sustainability of the United States’ water resources.
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The international water expert proposes a plan to ensure the long-term sustainability of the United States’ water resources.
This is a key time for California water: we are coming off of three years of serious drought and growing political conflict over water allocations.
A new tool for figuring out our home water and energy and greenhouse gas footprint.
The California Legislature pulled the massive $11 billion water bond from the November ballot and moved it to 2012.
Peter Gleick applauds the UN General Assembly’s declaration: “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.”
The costs and benefits of California’s largest water bond in a half century have not been fully assessed by an independent organization.
California has just suffered through three years of drought. Certainly not the first such drought and not the last.
“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.”
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.
An analysis of the special interest rhetoric behind climate changes biggest naysayers.
“The growth of the bottled water industry is a story about 21st century controversies and contradictions: poverty versus glitterati; perception versus reality; private gain versus public loss of the last century.”
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?