Peak Water: When global demand for water exceeds renewable supply.

Peak Water is pushing its way past Peak Oil to the front lines of the war on Climate Change. We at PeakWater.org believe that the lack of access to uncontaminated, drinkable water is the single greatest crisis facing civilization and the environment, perhaps most notably in the developing world. What are we going to do about it? We need Global Water Solutions. We need to mobilize. Now.

This is a response to the Global Water Crisis.  It is an awareness-building collective, a forum for public discourse where problems are identified and solutions are developed. Our research team of scientists, anthropologists, historians, horticulturists, writers, educators, academics, and volunteers profiles water conservation and management initiatives in effort to promote global water literacy with a focus on the developing world. Possible outreach strategies are also identified including water-related NGO partnerships, community-based rain water collection, cistern storage, grey water recycling, and more.  Through water literacy and education, we intend to globalize the conversation surrounding Peak Water. Please join us.

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“Market assumptions are blind to the ecological limits set by the water cycle and the economic limits set by poverty. Over-exploitation of water and disruption of the water cycle create absolute scarcity that markets cannot substitute with other commodities. The assumption of substitution is in fact central to logic of commodification…such abstract arguments miss the most crucial point-when water disappears, there is no alternative.

“The water crisis is an ecological crisis with commercial causes but no market solutions. Market solutions destroy the earth and aggravate inequality. The solution to an ecological crisis is ecological, and the solution for injustice is democracy. Ending the water crisis requires rejuvenating ecological democracy.”  ~ Vandana Shiva, Water Wars

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Peak Water: Cuando la demanda global por agua excede la capacidad de renovarse naturalmente.

Peak Water esta trabajando para tomar el frente al pico del petroleo en la lucha contra el Calentamiento Global. Que es lo que vamos hacer? Necesitamos Soluciones Globales Para El Agua. Necesitamos mobilisarnos. Ahora. Peakwater.org es una respuesta a la Crisis De Agua Mundial. Esto es un foro para el publico donde la gente puede identificar problemas y crear soluciones y, a la ves tomar conciencia de lo que esta pasando.

“Hipótesis de mercado son siegas a los limites ecológicos establecidos por el ciclo del agua y a los limites económicos establecidos por la pobresa. La explotación del agua y la alteración al ciclo del agua han creado absoluta escasez que mercados no pueden reemplazar con otras comodidades. Al suponer que agua puede ser reemplazada con otra comodidad es de hecho central a la lógica…a tales argumentos abstractos pierden un punto crucial cuando el agua desaparece, no existe un alternativo.

“La crisis del agua es una crisis ecológica con causas commerciales en las cuales no hay soluciones de mercado. Las soluciones de mercado destruyen la Tierra y agravan la desigualdad. La solución para una crisis ecológica es una que es ecológica y, la solución para la injusticia es la democracia. Terminar con la crisis del agua requiere rejuvenecer la democracia ecológicamente.”