Peter Gleick's Blog: Water By Numbers

Featured on City Brights, the San Francisco Chronicle's luminary blogger site, Peter Gleick 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.

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

Saving our tap water: the problem and solution, 12/27/2009

The real climate hoax, 12/21/2009

Stealing water from the future: California's massive groundwater overdraft newly revealed, 12/15/2009

Water and conflict: the new Water and Conflict Chronology, 12/9/2009

Prepare now for another dry year, 12/2/2009

What the frack? Poisoning our water in the name of energy profits, 11/24/2009

Water on the Moon, 11/13/2009

Giving Desalination another black eye: Poseidon's financial shell game, 11/11/2009

California water bills. Is the new water legislation better than nothing?, 11/5/2009

Doing desalination wrong: Poseidon on the public dole, 11/3/2009

Who is stealing California's water?, 10,30, 2009

Water use in the United States has leveled off: New remarkable numbers released, 10/29/09

Water and population. 2, 10/22/2009

Destroying our libraries: A water story, 10/16/2009

Population and water. 1, 10/13/2009

Safe water during disasters: Preparing better for the inevitable, 10/5/2009

The kids are right: Turn off the tap when you brush your teeth, 10/2/2009

Crikey! Real water conservation and efficiency in Australia, 9/22/2009

Another missed opportunity to fix California's water problems, 9/12/2009

New McCarthyism: Fear of science and the war on rationality, 9/7/2009

Rigged feasibility study shows desperation for new surface reservoirs: Temperance Flat falls flat, 9/5/2009

The denominator problem: Misleading use of water numbers, 8/26/2009

An international water perspective: Water in crisis, 8/18/2009

"Drought impacts on unemployment are grossly overstated", 8/12/2009

New water legislation in California: Start of a new era?, 8/6/2009

Whose water is it? Water rights in the age of scarcity, 8/2/2009

Get rid of your clunker: More on inefficient washing machines (and toilets and irrigation systems), 7/31/2009

Why do you still have a top-loading washing machine?, 7/29/2009

Saving California Agriculture, 7/22/2009

An Eastern judge points the way to solving Western water problems, 7/17/2009

California's looming groundwater catastrophe, 7/14/2009

Bottled water labels: no salt, no fat, no cholesterol, and no useful information, 7/8/2009

Wake up: Here is what a real water crisis looks like, 7/2/2009

Truth drought: California's real shortfall, 6/30/2009

Rainbow waters: fishing for hope, 6/23/2009

Water for energy: The bad bet for biofuels, 6/19/2009

Western Governors and new thinking on water, 6/17/2009

Is some California water use unconstitutional?, 6/12/2009

Zero or all? What's really happening in the Central Valley?, 6/10/2009

The Number of New Dams Built in California in the Past 50 (or 40 or 30 or 20) Years is Not Zero, 6/5/2009

Salt from Water: The Question of Energy, 6/2/2009

Salt from Water, Money from Pockets?, 5/29/2009

We Need a "Local Water" Movement, 5/26/2009

Water Wars--Myth or Reality?, 5/22/2009

How MUCH water do we use?, 5/19/2009

I Pay Plenty for my Water, and I'm Not Complaining, 5/15/2009

Growing Jobs: Where Should the Water Go?, 5/12/2009

The Power of Information and Action, 5/8/2009

The Water to Grow Beef, 5/5/2009

Water for Food, 5/1/2009

The Luxury of a Toilet, 4/28/2009

Water By Numbers, 4/24/2009