Water footprint: a tool for climate adaptation?
28/02/12 15:42
Today, a major new article on water footprinting by Hoekstra and Mekonnen published in PNAS as an open-source PDF. Hoekstra is the most famous proponent of water footprint analyses, and he’s responsible for publicizing one of the most influential ideas in the past decade or two about water.
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Peter Gleick, double standards, and faith in science: Lessons for communicating climate issues?
26/02/12 09:49
The leadership of progressive thinking about water and climate has taken a major hit in the past ten days with the public shaming of Peter Gleick. Many of you are probably familiar with Gleick, founder and head of the Pacific Institute, but if not, Gleick is the closest that the water community has ever had to a “face.” Gleick never pretended to represent all of the water community — he didn’t champion WASH issues, for instance, and his discussions of water issues in the developing world and climate change adaptation around water have often been somewhat simplistic. But he has been an incredibly effective champion of issues for the energy-water nexus (the connections between energy generation of all kinds and water consumption, and the high energy costs of moving water, both virtual and real water). He has also been extraordinary in communicating to corporations about water issues, even corporations whose work is not obviously and directly connected to water. More generally, the Pacific Institute has served as a very effective communications hub for global water issues.
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