210 research outputs found
Ways of Water: Human Rights, Gender, Security & Environment.
No full textThe connections between access to water, gender, security, environment and human rights was the subject of a talk by Dr. Peter H. Gleick on Thursday March 26th, 2009 in the Rutgers University Libraries. Recipient of the prestigious MacArthur fellowship, Dr. Gleick is the president and co-founder of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, CA. The institute monitors the quality of the world's water supply and its effect of health, climate change, industrialization, and international relations. The work of the Pacific Institute has been cited by government officials and community activists in South Africa, India, the United Nations Global Compact, and the State of California. The Pacific Institute issues the biennial report, The World's Water, which tracks international developments in water quality and their local impacts.Program was held at the Scholarly Communications Center, Archibald S. Alexander Library, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Dungan Lecture: Peter H. Gleick
No full textOur 21st Centurty Water Challenge: From Bottled Water to Climate Change . Peter Gleick knows drinking water and climate change. He is a world renowned researcher and water expert and a MacArthur Foundation genius. So if Gleick drinks water from the tap, why don\u27t the rest of us? Why is bottled water an environmental justice issue? How does water relate to climate change
The looming global water crisis
No full textOf the earth's total water supply, scientists estimate that a mere 2% is freshwater suitable for human use, and of that amount, less than 1% is directly accessible through lakes, rivers, reservoirs and underground sources. As global water consumption continues to grow at a rate nearly double that of population growth, it is little wonder that many experts have speculated that the international conflicts of the future will be fought over water. Meanwhile, the U.N. predicts that 20% of the world's population lacks access to clean drinking water, and that by the year 2025 up to two-thirds of mankind could face water scarcities. With alarms sounding about the increasing scarcity of water, what can be done to manage the world's supply of freshwater, and how can global water wars be prevented? In this episode host Peter Krogh is joined by Dr. Peter Gleick, President and Co-founder of the Pacific Institute, and Brian Richter, Director of the Freshwater Initiative at the Nature Conservancy, to examine the future of the world's freshwater supply.Examines the growing alarm over what could be the world's next great resource crisis: global water shortages
Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?
No full textDr. Peter H. Gleick gave this lecture on water, in general, with a focus on bottled water on Feb. 9, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Dr. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. Gleick is the author of many scientific papers and seven books, including the biennial water report, "The World's Water", and the new "Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water".Lecture on water; Part of the Sustainability Project-sponsored graduate course "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism
Time travel: a history
No full textFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine. It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that becomes part of contemporary culture—from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Jorge Luis Borges to Woody Allen. He investigates the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future
Towards a Sustainable Future: The Dynamic Adjustment Path of Irrigation Technology and Water Management in Western U.S. Agriculture
No full textTechnology adoption, Water conservation, Irrigation, Dynamic groundwater models, Sustainable agriculture, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Diseases 2000–2030
No full textThe failure to provide safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services to all people is perhaps the greatest development failure of the 20th century. The most egregious consequence of this failure is the high rate of mortality among young children from preventable water-related diseases. This paper examines different scenarios of activities in the international water arena and provides three estimates of the overall water-related mortality likely to occur over the next two decades. If no action is taken to address unmet basic human needs for water, as many as 135 million people will die from these diseases by 2020. Even if the explicit Millennium Goals announced by the United Nations in 2000 are achieved1 – unlikely given current international commitments – between 34 and 76 million people will perish from water-related diseases by 2020. This problem is one of the most serious public health crisis facing us, and deserves far more attention and resources than it has received so far
The human right to water
No full textMore than a billion people in the developing world lack safe drinking water — an amenity those in the developed world take for granted. Nearly three billion people live without access to adequate sanitation systems necessary for reducing exposure to water-related diseases. The failure of the international aid community, nations and local organizations to satisfy these basic human needs has led to substantial, unnecessary and preventable human suering. This paper argues that access to a basic water requirement is a fundamental human right implicitly and explicitly supported by international law, declarations and State practice. Governments, international aid agencies, nongovernmental organizations and local communities should work to provide all humans with a basic water requirement and to guarantee that water as a human right. By acknowledging a human right to water and expressing the willingness to meet this right for those currently deprived of it, the water community would have a useful tool for addressing one of the most fundamental failures of 20th century development. # 199
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