Peter Gleick's Blog: Water By Numbers

Featured on City Brights, the San Francisco Chronicle's luminary blogger site, Dr. Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, explores the water challenges facing California, the West, and our world. Follow along as he discusses the threats to our freshwater resources and viable solutions to those threats, drawing from not only his experiences and viewpoint, but also by way of numbers: each post includes an important, unusual, or newsworthy "water number" that will highlight some piece of the water issue. Dr. Gleick's City Brights blogs are listed below.

Peter Gleick also blogs on the influential Huffington Post. Find his Huffington Post blogs here.

2011 SF Gate Blogs:

When Beliefs Conflict with Facts: Rep. Jim Costa and the California Drought, 6/29/2011

The California Drought (2007-2009): Myth versus Reality, 6/16/2011

Whither Bottled Water Sales?, 6/7/2011

Where Have All Our Drinking Water Fountains Gone? Find Them with "WeTap," 4/25/2011

Unsafe Drinking Water for California's Poor: Unfair, Unnecessary, and Unacceptable, 3/16/11

Playing God - (letting some species go extinct rather than take the difficult steps needed to save them and their ecosystems), 2/25/2011

Misrepresenting Science: Cherry-Picking Data for Political Purposes, 2/9/2011

Peak Water, 1/21/2011

2010 SF Gate Blogs:

Welcome to the 2010 Climate B.S.* of the Year Award, 12/30/2010

Fiji Water: Where bottled water, money, and ethics conflict, 11/29/2010

Sneaky Bottled Water Advertising, 11/6/2010

Human Right to Water, At Last, 10/26/2010

Misusing California water numbers for political purposes: Jobs, fish, and lies, 9/30/2010

Time for a drinking water fountain renaissance, 9/22/2010

Time for a "Cash for Water Clunkers" Program, 9/17/2010

California's Next One Million Acre-Feet of Water, 9/8/2010

How much water do YOU use at home? A new tool for figuring out our home water and energy and greenhouse gas footprint, 8/26/2010

Massive Water Bond delayed: back to more realistic water solutions, 8/10/2010

The California Water Bond: what does Proposition 18 really say and do?, 8/3/2010

And during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years, 7/11/2010

Water Lessons from Singapore, 6/6/2010

Water and misleading advertising and marketing: where are the FDA and FTC?, 5/24/2010

More on climate deniers and their abuse of science, 5/6/2010

Smart water meters, dumb meters, no meters, 4/28/2010

Bottled and Sold: what's really in our bottled water, 4/17/2010

Water and Energy: obey the law on cooling systems, 4/11/2010

The coming crisis over the Mekong: unconstrained development, natural droughts, and climate change, 4/3/2010

World Water Day 2010: a trip through one of the worst slums in the world, 3/21/2010

Climate-change deniers vs. the scientific societies of the world: Who should we listen to?, 3/15/2010

The best argument against global warming, 3/11/2010

Water infrastructure, but for whose benefit?, 3/10/2010

Farm water success stories, 3/3/2010

Water scofflaws: Go soak your head (under a low-flow shower head), 3/1/2010

Turf Wars, 2/20/2010

Water fountains victory: the Cavs cave, 2/10/2010

The bottled water wars: the war on tap water, 2/8/2010

Where to find one million acre feet of water in California. An advance peek at a new assessment, 1/21/2010

Water for Haiti: Now, 1/13/2010

Water, Climate Change, and International Security, 1/11/2010

Click here for BLOGS FROM 2009.