Will Someone Get These People a Drink?

Despite Tremendous Effort and Investment, Clean Water Remains Elusive For Communities Around the World

“Why doesn’t everyone in the world have access to clean water?” Occidental College political economist Sanjeev Khagram’s young son asked him this question today when he learned his father was moderating a panel discussion on efforts to bring safe drinking water and sanitation to people around the world. Khagram opened the program, co-presented by Occidental College at MOCA Grand Avenue, by posing this very question to a panel of people from around the American West who study and work on water issues and distribution.

Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of the Metropolitan …

by Sarah Rothbard | March 18, 2014

If Clean Water Is a Right, Why Have We Been So Wrong?

Despite Trillions in Investments, Hundreds of Millions of People Are Still Drinking Unsafe Water

March 14, 2014

In some parts of the globe, people trek on foot for miles every day for clean water to carry home in heavy tanks. In many developing counties, toilets are scarce …

That’s My Water. No, Mine!

The California Delta Is a Contentious Topic, At Least For Those Who Know About It. Do Current Plans For Its Future Make Sense?

by Sarah Rothbard | November 13, 2013

The California Delta is connected to everything in the state, Lois Kazakoff, the deputy editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, told a crowd at the Fort Mason Center …

How California Can Teach Itself About Water

The Wet, Wasteful North and the Dry, Conserving South Must Share Perspectives, and Plans

by Chris Austin | November 12, 2013

In California, we owe the existence of our communities to the willingness of previous generations to rearrange our natural assets. Billions of dollars have been spent rerouting rivers to channel …

Please, No, Not a Water-Related Fact!

Californians Know Next To Nothing About the Gazillions of Gallons Of H2O They Consume. What Single, Unfamiliar Fact Should They Learn?

November 11, 2013

Where does your water come from? Ask many Californians that question, and the most common answers will be the tap or the bottle. Surveys show we know very little about …

Environmental Attorney Peter Culp

What Do You Call 10 Lawyers Chained Together at the Bottom of the Ocean?

October 29, 2013

Peter Culp is a Phoenix-based attorney who practices in the areas of water and natural resources, environmental, and federal Indian law. Before participating in a panel on how much water …

Will We Ever Get Sane About Water?

We Have the Means To Keep Ourselves Peaceably Hydrated. The Will, For Now, Is Another Story.

What Drought? California Has Plenty of Water.

Looking to a Future Where We Drink More Wastewater and Ocean Water—Treated, Of Course

Our United State of Water

For Better and For Worse, Water Keeps California Together

L.A. Is Drowning in Its Own Water Pretensions

Civic Leaders' Fantastical Claims of Water Self-Sufficiency May Endanger Southern California's Real Water Supplies

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