Peter Gleick: ‘And During the Wet Years They Lost All Memory of the Dry Years.’
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: More on Climate Deniers and Their Abuse of Science
/in Climate Change, In the Circle, Water News, Water Policy & Politics/by Dr. Peter GleickAn analysis of the special interest rhetoric behind climate changes biggest naysayers.
Peter Gleick: Smart Water Meters, Dumb Meters, No Meters
/in California, In the Circle, North America/by Dr. Peter GleickHow 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?
Peter Gleick: Bottled and Sold — What’s Really in our Bottled Water
/in In the Circle, North America, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickOne would think and expect that bottled water would be cleaner than our tap water. But is it?
Peter Gleick: Water and Energy – Obey the Law on Cooling Systems
/in California, In the Circle, Water Law, Water Policy & Politics/by Dr. Peter GleickThe connections between energy and water are significant and complex. We use vast amounts of energy to collect, move, treat, use, and clean water. And we use vast amounts of water to produce energy, including for mining, drilling, and processing fossil and nuclear fuels, and especially for cooling power plants.
Peter Gleick: Crisis Over the Mekong — Development, Drought, and Climate Change
/in China, Hydropower, In the Circle, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickA volatile mix in Asia.
Peter Gleick: World Water Day 2010 — A trip through one of the worst slums in the world
/in In the Circle, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickLike 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.
Peter Gleick: Climate-change Deniers Versus the Scientific Societies of the World — Who Should we Listen to?
/in In the Circle, North America, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickWhere should the public, not versed in climate science, look for their information and knowledge about this debate about climate change?
Peter Gleick: Improving Water Infrastructure with Dam Building, but for Whose Benefit?
/in California, Hydropower, In the Circle, North America, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickWhether, where, and how to build new dams: the old Western debate.
Peter Gleick: Farm Water Success Stories
/in California, In the Circle, North America, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickThe 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.
Peter Gleick: Turf Wars
/in In the Circle, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickClimate change is expected to bring less precipitation and more extreme droughts to certain parts of the world, causing electricity shortages in hydro-reliant countries.
Peter Gleick: Water Fountain Victory — the Cavs Cave
/in In the Circle, North America, Water News/by Dr. Peter GleickOK, 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.
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