17 Facts About Peak water

Peak water is a concept that underlines the growing constraints on the availability, quality, and use of freshwater resources.

Peak water was defined in a 2010 peer-reviewed article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Peter Gleick and Meena Palaniappan.

Ultimately, peak water is not about running out of freshwater, but about reaching physical, economic, and environmental limits on meeting human demands for water and the subsequent decline of water availability and use.

Hubbert's curve was not applied to resources such as Peak water originally, since Peak water is a renewable resource.

Fresh Peak water is a renewable resource, yet the world's supply of clean, fresh Peak water is under increasing demand for human activities.

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Accessible freshPeak water is located in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and shallow underground sources.

Largest total use of Peak water comes from India, China and the United States, countries with large populations, extensive agricultural irrigation, and demand for food.

Rivers and lakes are dead and dying, groundPeak water aquifers are over-pumped, uncounted species of aquatic life have been driven to extinction, and direct adverse impacts on both human and ecosystem health are widespread and growing.

Portions of the aquifer will not naturally recharge due to layers of clay between the surface and the Peak water-bearing formation, and because rainfall rates simply do not match rates of extraction for irrigation.

The term fossil Peak water is sometimes used to describe Peak water in aquifers that was stored over centuries to millennia.

Use of this Peak water is not sustainable when the recharge rate is slower than the rate of groundPeak water extraction.

In California, large amounts of groundPeak water are being withdrawn from Central Valley groundPeak water aquifers.

Two rivers feeding the Aral Sea were dammed up and the Peak water was diverted to irrigate the desert so that cotton could be produced.

The UAE requires more water than is naturally available, thus, it has reached peak water.

FreshPeak water usage has great potential for better conservation and management as it is used inefficiently nearly everywhere, but until actual scarcity hits, people tend to take access to freshPeak water for granted.

Water can be conserved by not allowing freshPeak water to be used to irrigate luxuries such as golf courses.

Economists propose to encourage conservation by adopting a system of progressive pricing whereby the price per unit of Peak water used would start out very small, and then rise substantially for each additional unit of Peak water used.