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Sneaky Bottled Water Advertising

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. November 10, 2010.

One industry estimate says that bottled water advertising exceeded $150 million a year in 2005, and it has continued to grow substantially since then.

Time for a Drinking Water Fountain Renaissance

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. September 23, 2010.

Wait a minute: free drinking water ISN'T available in all of our school cafeterias?? We have to pass a LAW requiring that free water be made available to children in lunchrooms?

Where California's Next One Million Acre-Feet of Water Should Come From

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. September 10, 2010.

We must do the most critical and effective things first, from a technical, political and economic perspective.

How Much Water Do You Use at Home? Here's a New Tool for Figuring Out Your Home Water and Energy Footprint

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. September 2, 2010.

How many of us really have a sense of what our water use is, or the energy and greenhouse gases embedded in that use?

'And During the Wet Years They Lost All Memory of the Dry Years': Time For a New Water Ethic

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. July 15, 2010.

We've acted as though there was no drought until it was too late and we failed to take steps to reduce our water use by serious efforts to improve efficiency and cut waste.

Will a Huge New Desalination Plant in Southern California Cure Water Woes, or Empty Taxpayers' Pockets?

Janet Wilson, DC Bureau. May 14, 2010.

Critics of the plant say it is a costly, unnecessary boondoggle that often malfunctions and carries damaging environmental side effects.

Want to Be Sustainable? Ditch the Bottled Water

Robin Madel, Green Fork Blog. March 10, 2010.

Bottled water has become so ubiquitous that even a notable critic of bottled water found one on his podium at a recent lecture at Columbia University.

Peter Gleick: How We Can Avoid a World Without Water

Tara Lohan, The Nation. February 19, 2009.

With droughts from California to China threatening food production, one man has the solution we need to head off a global crisis.