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Has the U.S. Passed the Point of Peak Water?
by Peter H. Gleick, The Huffington Post
October 12th, 2010
by Peter H. Gleick, The Huffington Post
October 12th, 2010
The specter of "peak oil" -- a peaking and then decline in oil production -- has long been predicted and debated. A recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences I wrote with a colleague, Meena Palaniappan, offers three concepts of "peak water:" peak renewable water, peak nonrenewable water, and peak ecological water. And it looks like the U.S. has passed all three points.










