For the first time, the department is acknowledging we can have more people, a healthy economy and a strong agricultural sector and not use any more water than we are today. That's a dramatic shift from the past.
"Peter H. Gleick" is an American scientist working on issues related to the Environmental science/environment. He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California/Oakland, California, which he co-founded in 1987. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on water resources. Among the issues he has addressed are conflicts over water resources, water and climate change, development, and human health.
In 2006 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2011, Gleick was the launch Chairman of the "new task force on scientific ethics and integrity" of the American Geophysical Union. Gleick received the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) Ven Te Chow Memorial Award in 2011, and that same year he and the Pacific Institute were awarded the first U.S. Water Prize.
In February 2012, Gleick admitted to unauthorized distribution of documents he had obtained from The Heartland Institute under someone else's name, and took a voluntary leave of absence from the Pacific Institute; he was reinstated following an investigation.
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