Peak Water: When 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. We must mobilize. Now.
We are a global water news aggregate, an awareness-building collective, and a forum for public discourse. All media featured on this site is compiled by a concerned team of scientists, professors, students and global citizens. Additionally, we profile global water conservation and management initiatives in effort to promote water literacy through NGO and academic partnerships. Here at PeakWater.org we hope to quench your thirst for global water news. We encourage you to share our site with others, and to share all water-related news with us so that we can pass it on.
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Jenna Cavelle, Founder of PeakWater.org, is an environmental journalist, activist, teacher, and student with an academic focus in Environmental Science, Policy, and Resource Management of Water at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jenna is a published web and print journalist and photographer. Her work centers on environmental issues such as Climate Change, Ocean Conservation, Endangered Species, Natural Resources and more. Her portfolio of work can be viewed at www.jennacavelle.com.
Raised along fresh water springs and rivers in the Southeast United States, Jenna currently travels extensively throughout Southeast Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the South Pacific, and is a permanent resident of both Berkeley and Santa Cruz in California. She can be reached by email at jennacavelle@peakwater.org
Cécile Mioni, Ph.D. is the Lead Scientist at PeakWater.org. Dr. Mioni is a marine biogeochemist with an interest in environmental factors controlling marine microbial communities. Her current research focuses on monitoring distribution of harmful algae and their toxins, and characterizing environmental variables that control toxin production in the San Francisco estuary. She is also interested in the effects of contaminated water on public health and agriculture in the developing world. Currently, Dr. Mioni works as a post-doctoral scholar in the Paytan lab at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Dr. Mioni grew up in a small town in the southwest of France, famous for its plums and fossilized oysters. Fascinated by aquatic sciences, she conducted her first experiments by attempting to teach “escargots” how to swim. Not deterred by her lack of success, she earned a B.Sc. in Biology and Earth Sciences from the University of Bordeaux, and a Maitrise in Biology of Population and Ecosystems from the European Institute of Marine Studies in Plouzané, France. Upon graduation, she joined the Master of Sciences program in Biological Oceanography and Marine Environment at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. She completed her thesis work on iron biogeochemistry at the Institute Universitaire Européen de la Mer. Later she studied iron biogeochemistry as an intern under Professor François Morel at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She currently lives in Santa Cruz with her German Shepherd, Honey, where she also practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at Kaijin MMA. Dr. Mioni can be reached at cmioni@ucsc.edu. Her curriculum vitae can be viewed at www.cecilemioni.com.
Michael G. Vann, Ph.D., serves as a Historical Consultant for PeakWater.org. Dr. Vann is a professor of World History at California Sate University, Sacramento. He lectures on the role of water in human development, including the origins of complex societies, empires, and historical human manipulations of the natural world. Additionally, he offers courses on Southeast Asia and the history of Colonialism and Imperialism. He is published widely on issues related to racism and social injustices in the colonial empires of the 19th and 20th Centuries. His most recent book, The Colonial Good Life: A Commentary on Andre Joyeux’s Vision of French Indochina, published by White Lotus in Bangkok, is a translation and explication of an anthology of colonial cartoons published in 1912 Saigon. Raised on the water in Honolulu, Hawaii, he currently divides his time between the coast of the Monterey Bay and the Sacramento Delta region. Dr. Vann’s curriculum vitae can be viewed at www.csus.edu/hist/faculty/vann. He can be reached by email at mikevann@csus.edu.
Chris Morrow is the Co-Director at PeakWater.org. His research efforts focus on the role of water conservation and management in sustainable agriculture throughout the United States, Mexico, and the developing world. Chris’s academic concentration is in Environmental Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he also conducts research on behalf of the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology program. His research serves to broaden the understanding of the fundamental biological sciences, including environmental and chemical roles on gene expression.
Raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Chris currently lives in Santa Cruz where he can be found exploring the natural world on his bicycle. He can be reached at cmorrow@ucsc.edu.
Rick Longinotti serves as a Community Outreach Consultant for PeakWater.org. He is a co-founder of Transition Santa Cruz, www.transitionsc.org, part of the Transition Initiatives movement to build local resilience in the face of economic and environmental stress. Rick is a former electrical contractor, a career that alerted him to the kinds of choices that result in high energy use. When he learned of his city’s decision to plan a desalination plant, he felt a strong need to assist the community in becoming aware of the impact of desalination in terms of energy, cost, and environment.
Rick is a Marriage and Family Therapist, and co-founder of Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz www.nvcsantacruz.org, where he teaches communication skills for engaging in community activism. He works to build community spirit and civic engagement in an era when economic growth is becoming understood as more of a hindrance than a solution to community problems. Rick can be reached via his website at www.findingharmony.org.
Christina Richardson is a Science News Aggregator for PeakWater.org. Her academic concentration is in Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has conducted research on behalf of marine biologist, Dr. Bill Henry for Long Marine Lab to determine the livelihood of new albatross colonies on Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean.
She has additional interests in dendrology, fresh water ecology, river preservation, and dam removal. Christina’s work with PeakWater.org includes development of literacy materials, volunteer recruitment, and content development. When Christina is not drinking biology, chemistry, and calculus from a fire hose, she can be found diving, sea kayaking, or wading the tide pools just off the Pacific coast. She can be reached via email at cmrichar@ucsc.edu.
As the Creative Director at PeakWater.org, Bob Nybe oversees all aspects of art, design, and photography for web and print media, corporate identity, and collateral materials including the product line. Bob has a degree in Fine Art and Photography from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His company nybemotion has provided creative services for clients such as AOL, Buena Vista Studios, CBS, Disney, HBO Studios, Interscope, Miramax, MTV, Newline Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Showtime, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Spelling TV, Turner Cinema, Universal Pictures, VH1, Viacom, New Media, Warner Brothers, Art Center College of Design, and more.
Bob has also provided creative services for the International Organization for Migration and the AIDS Institute addressing HIV/AIDS. His most recent efforts with PeakWater.org reflect his belief that creative solutions to environmental problems are central to creating forward movement in the global water crisis. Bob lives in Los Angeles, California and can be reached at nybe@mac.com and his portfolio can be viewed at www.nybemotion.com.
Christian Ericson is the Art Director at PeakWater.org. He studied Graphic Design at Savannah College of Art and Design and the University of Redlands. He has worked with such acclaimed artists as The Roots, D’Angelo, Common, The Marley Family, Carly Simon, Ben Taylor, Lauryn Hill, Cody Chestnutt, John Mayer, and with entertainment companies such as Arcadia New Media, Sony/BMG Music, Astralwerks Records, Savoy Records, Ropeadope Records, Rebel Soul Music, and Iris Records creating web, album and logo designs, promotional campaigns, branding, and more. His portfolio of work can be viewed at www.brightmoments.org.
As a youth activist Christian started the environmental committee at The Rivers Country Day School, and personally implemented and carried out the first recycling program at his high school. Currently, Christian splits his time between Brooklyn, New York, where he works as a fine artist, Cape Cod, where he navigates the salty bays, and the Bahamas where he explores the outer islands of Nassua and spends most of his time underwater. He can be reached by email at info@brightmoments.org.
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