Visit the Water Shelf main page By Mike Ricciardi We are waking up to the reality that we live on a water planet, and it changes everything Europe and Asia lead the world with the introduction of a “Blue Economy”...
Visit the Water Shelf main page By Julie Greene, Island Press Flooding in California. Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. Massive fish kills in Texas and Australia. “Forever chemicals” in US drinking water. Too often, these dire stories...
Visit the Water Shelf main page Listen to this review: “Abundance” is a concept in wide circulation among California water folks. Adel Hagekhalil, General Manager of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, recently said Colorado River issues need to...
A fresh look at the world’s water crises, and the existing and emerging solutions that can be used to solve them As we see in news headlines and in our own neighborhoods: water crises are more frequent and increasingly severe....
A California Study in Rebalancing the Needs of People and Nature As the world population grows, so does the demand for food, putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural lands. At the same time, climate change, soil degradation, and water scarcity mean...