Local Water: The Next Social Movement?

Peter Gleick, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute, recently called for a “local water” movement on The Huffington Post. Gleick’s proposal is not as dire as it might sound at first; he acknowledges that such a movement would have to be flexible, not idealogical, similar to the local food movement. Water, especially for our largest cities, would likely still be imported, but greater effort would be made to “use local resources more effectively, to treat and reuse water once it has been brought into a region, to minimize the broader environmental consequences of water use and management, and to give priorities to local actions and management.”