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Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards recognize Pacific Institute and Dr. Peter Gleick

Amanda Repella April 23, 2013 Highlights

The Singapore Water Story: a journey towards self-sufficiency and sustainable development

Cecilia Tortajada April 22, 2013 Opinions

Hydropower Conflicts in Southern Chile

Larry Susskind April 6, 2013 Opinions

Difficult Decisions and Dramatic Reforms to Solve China’s Water Problems? Scott Moore featured in International Herald Tribune

Amanda Repella April 3, 2013 Highlights

Breach the Bottleneck and Avoid Disaster: Enhance Early Warning Systems for Flood Hazards

Shafiqul Islam March 22, 2013 Opinions

“Hitherto the long range forecaster has been denied a seat in the banquet hall of science; …the general scientist has denounced him; the professional weather man has treated him with supercilious scorn” (Richards 1911). This statement was made over 100 years ago - long before the development of computers and numerical forecast models - when weather forecasters were limited to reading maps. Fast forward to now: the age of supercomputers, smart phones and social media. Despite significant advances in our understanding of the atmospheric dynamics, hydrologic processes, and the ability to solve complex equations and communicate with millions of people at lightning fast speed, the same debate rages within the scientific and practicing community as water professionals attempt to push the frontiers of early warning systems for water related hazards. We continue to experience an ever-increasing number of natural hazards that become disasters. For example...

Peter Gleick on Water Wars and Rising Seas

Amanda Repella March 18, 2013 Highlights

Dr. Asit K. Biswas in The European, Business Times, and Water Challenge Blog

Amanda Repella March 13, 2013 Highlights

Water 2030: defining and initiating pathways to address the supply-demand gap

Amanda Repella January 24, 2013 Insights

Matching Risks and Rewards: researcher’s goals, practitioner’s decisions, and flood risk management practices

Amanda Repella January 20, 2013 Insights

Flood risk management seeks to prevent and mitigate disastrous outcomes from flood events through built infrastructure, management of control devices, land-use planning, flood prediction and emergency management planning. Researchers from NCAR and the University of Colorado interviewed decision makers at multiple levels and scientists who study flood risks and prediction to better understand how flood risk research questions are studied and how actual risk management decisions are made to better inform the researchers who seek to provide the information that will improve flood risk management decision making. However, while scientists often assume that more specific scientific information that reduces uncertainty about flood timing or magnitude will lead to better flood prediction and flood management policies, the diverse group of practitioners involved in the policy and management decision process may need different information that better addresses the realities of their decision making environment.

Narrative of Complacency: international donor perceptions and narratives helped to perpetuate irrigation system problems in Indonesia

Amanda Repella January 7, 2013 Insights

International donors promote the widespread adoption of various policy trends and are able to influence policy with developing countries through funding schemes. The perceptions of international donors and dominant policy narratives may not align with the development conditions at the local or national levels, which can lead to ineffective development funding and perpetuate a cycle of ineffective policy and programs. Dr. Diana Suhardiman of the International Water Management Institute and Dr. Peter Mollinga of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, examined the international donors and dominant policy narratives over the past five decades in Indonesian irrigation policy and used this detailed case study to illustrate that when national policies are strongly shaped by international trends, there is a potential that assumptions about causal mechanisms or organizational motivations may lead to financial and institutional arrangements that cannot produce the desired outcome and may perpetuate or exacerbate a negative result.

Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards recognize Pacific Institute and Dr. Peter Gleick

The Singapore Water Story: a journey towards self-sufficiency and sustainable development

Hydropower Conflicts in Southern Chile

Difficult Decisions and Dramatic Reforms to Solve China’s Water Problems? Scott Moore featured in International Herald Tribune

Breach the Bottleneck and Avoid Disaster: Enhance Early Warning Systems for Flood Hazards

Peter Gleick on Water Wars and Rising Seas

Dr. Asit K. Biswas in The European, Business Times, and Water Challenge Blog

Water 2030: defining and initiating pathways to address the supply-demand gap

Matching Risks and Rewards: researcher’s goals, practitioner’s decisions, and flood risk management practices

Narrative of Complacency: international donor perceptions and narratives helped to perpetuate irrigation system problems in Indonesia

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