What is the typical amount of water that one person in America uses per day ? 150 gallons. But look at how much water is being used in the items we are buying.
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011
Strong leadership is missing. A few members of Congress have been working on the water problem and Matt Damon, the actor, has made it his cause. But the issue is not getting traction.
Kai Bird | Posted 05.25.2011
Water is more important than petty feuding nationalisms and achieving water security is a more life-threatening issue to us all than the war on terrorism.
Nicolas van de Walle | Posted 05.25.2011
A number of other states will see their power and authority dramatically enhanced over the next hundred years by their need and ability to take on the provision of an adequate volume of water for society's needs.
Charles Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
Steve Solomon's new book on "Water" is the real world prequel to Kevin Kostner's "Water World." No fiction here, but nonetheless a multitude of wonderful stories and insights brilliantly told.
William J. Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
From the increasing use of Astroturf on high school fields to no flush urinals in restaurants and stores, Southwesterners are grappling with how to meet the water challenge.
Howard Morland | Posted 05.25.2011
The water crisis is upon us, and unlike in a fiscal crisis, the scarce item cannot be manufactured out of thin air by central bankers. Plus water, unlike oil, has no substitute.
James McGrath Morris | Posted 05.25.2011
Water rights are the most precious thing on can hold in the Southwest. People used to kill each other over them in the old days. Today they use lawyers.
Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011
Greg Allgood will do almost anything to draw attention to the huge number of poor people - more than 1 billion - whose only drinking water is loaded with bacteria and viruses.
Steven Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
As the throngs at Copenhagen pack their bags and disperse from the historic summit back to all corners of the globe, a lone young Ohio woman, Katie Spotz, 24, is getting set to start out on a solitary, sea level voyage.
Jonathan M. Winer | Posted 05.25.2011
In covering personalities and events, Solomon suggests that societies that know how to take advantage of new ways of using water dominate their time, while those that fail to address water crises disintegrate.
Gal Luft | Posted 05.25.2011
As Solomon correctly points out, we cannot address the water challenge without access to affordable energy. Conversely, we cannot solve the energy challenge without addressing the water challenge.
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011
It won't be the first time Julie Spotz has accepted an extreme challenge for the cause of drinkable water, a precious resource that's quickly running ...
Dr. Allan Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011
Steve Solomon's new book "Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization" is an exhaustively researched and well written contribution to the world's increasing awareness of water issues.
Anne Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011