When I first laid eyes on our spacious, but bone-dry backyard, my mind was filled with big ideas – the kind you see in those summer hardware store commercials with smiley DIYers
The drought has been a talking point for many Californians, but I have often wondered how farmers — whose livelihoods are affected by the drought and who are at the center of the water-use debate —view the drought.
“The latrines that are safeguarding the health of the majority are also exposing a minority to fatal health risks.” ERG Ph.D. candidate Sharada Prasad and public health graduate student Rachel Sklar have produced a video for UC Global Health Day. UC Global Health Day is a showcase for the research, training and outreach in global health being undertaken across the University of California. The goal of UC Global Health Day…
Living in the Bay Area has changed my relationship with trash and taught me about its many intertwined issues—energy, land use, water, agriculture, ecology, trade, development, and environmental justice—to name a few. While many of those are not necessarily in our control as individuals, one thing we may be able to affect is how much trash we do produce and where it ends up.
If there is one challenge that California would have wanted to avoid facing this decade, it is the drought.
“People who live in the desert dream about water.” That’s what my friend said, anyway. I just got back from a short stay in my friend’s small desert village in northern Rajasthan, India. It is a village covered in sand, far from any town–a village so remote that it took three phone calls and three hours to get me a paracetamol (aspirin) for a fever I was having. One night…