Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 18, 2009. Despite the happy face being put on by some of the bill's supporters, including Governor Schwarzenegger, I doubt anyone is truly happy with the end result.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. Today environmental groups from around California weighed in with their opposition to the dangerous proposed water legislation.
Miller-McCune.comOctober 23, 2009. A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites and other remote-sensing platforms to find water under some of the world's thirstiest places.
Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 9, 2009. Schwarzenegger said he wants a water bill package including a peripheral canal and dams on his desk by Friday night before he will act on 700 bills awaiting his signature.
Lori Pottinger, Huffington Post. October 7, 2009. The world has long looked to California's massively engineered water system as "advanced" and worth emulating. It may be time to rethink that.
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. October 2, 2009. We spend $40 billion annually on our lawns and spend $10 billion more on pesticides and fertilizers keeping them green. But worse, they're draining diminishing water resources.
Carl Pope, Huffington Post. September 25, 2009. For 30 years clean water has been the public's number one environmental priority, but we still don't seem able to act to protect those vital supplies.
Chip Ward, Tomdispatch.com. September 16, 2009. The era of cheap and plentiful water in the West is over and that's bad news for our sprawling cities, agriculture and ecosystems.
Jaymi Heimbuch, TreeHugger. September 9, 2009. After months of drought, spring crops are failing and food may need to be imported, causing costs to rise.
Ranjit Devraj, IPS News. September 4, 2009. India's current dry spell is rapidly turning into a full-fledged drought as a result of reckless exploitation of groundwater resources for farming.
Alan Snitow, San Francisco Chronicle. September 2, 2009. A journalist and water adviser writes about how the the Kalahari Bushmen have a lot to teach us about surviving in times of scarcity.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. August 27, 2009. Exaggerating the role that water plays in unemployment will do little to improve farm jobs and much to hurt rational water policy in the region.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. August 12, 2009. I would urge that California's water warriors hold their opinions until they actually read and digest these bills.
Alex Steffen, Worldchanging. August 10, 2009. Water in the very near future will be neither cheap nor plentiful, and much of the Southwest is destined for real trouble.
Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. August 3, 2009. The state has got a plan to cut water use 20 percent by 2020. Is it realistic? And will rate increases spur revolt?
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. July 27, 2009. The Pacific Institute show how California's agricultural sector can flourish despite threats to water supply.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. July 10, 2009. Certainly farms and farmers are suffering, so are fish and ecosystems. But so is the truth. Here are three oft-repeated falsehoods.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. July 8, 2009. Californians have very little clue about what a real water crisis looks like. It looks like what's happening in Australia.
Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. June 20, 2009. As California and Australia are finding out, what makes economic sense to farmers may be becoming an environmental problem.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. June 6, 2009. Nearly a third of the country's food supply comes from California, but drought there may be a catastrophe for farmers -- and the rest of us.
