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The Demand for Water: Policy reform and new technologies offer solutions

Jeff Dodge January 02, 2019

Renowned CSU economist Edward Barbier has a few ideas about the world’s increasingly serious water crisis. He says we have mismanaged our freshwater supplies by not charging enough for the natural resource and by sticking to an antiquated system of determining water rights. By looking at governance, policy reform, and new technologies we could protect our freshwater ecosystems and secure sufficient water for our world’s growing population.

Working toward water resource sustainability

Jennifer Hitt January 02, 2019

Jake Adler, political science graduate, is at a fellowship with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education at the EPA’s Office of Water working on issues of resource recovery, water monitoring, innovation, and reuse. Adler’s team’s research and work focuses on the whole water cycle and follows the One Water concept, thinking more broadly about the entire water cycle, in a collaborative manner, to work toward water resource sustainability.

Water Wise: Working across disciplines to solve problems of scarcity and contamination

SOURCE Contributor January 02, 2019

From scarcity and drought, to equitable distribution across a growing population, to contamination from mining and other extractive industries, water in Colorado is the nexus for interdisciplinary research that fulfills CSU’s land grant mission.

Sociologists ensure water equity flows near and far

SOURCE Contributor January 02, 2019

Water equity is one of the 21st century’s key environmental justice issues. Sociologists work directly with water stakeholders, including farmers, engineers, urban developers, conservationists, lawmakers, and more to bridge communication gaps and ensure that legal, economic and social barriers are considered when policies and collaborative efforts are designed and implemented.

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Daily Archives: January 2, 2019

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The Demand for Water: Policy reform and new technologies offer solutions

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Working toward water resource sustainability

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Water Wise: Working across disciplines to solve problems of scarcity and contamination

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Sociologists ensure water equity flows near and far

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