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- I suggest adding the following section after the “History” section. It is similar to the layout of the Columbia Water Center Wikipedia page “Current Research” section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Water_Center:
Focus
As of 2017, the Pacific Institute’s work is organized around six issue areas: climate and water, safe and affordable water, corporate water stewardship, healthy aquatic ecosystems, water-smart cities, and sustainable agriculture.[1]
Climate and Water
The Pacific Institute works to quantify climate change’s impacts on water systems and resources, supports climate resilience strategies, and expands strategies to incorporate climate and water issues into water planning and management.”[2]
Safe and Affordable Water
The Pacific Institute focuses on expanding universal access to sanitation and safe and affordable water, partly through their work with the CEO Water Mandate, which provides a platform for businesses to support sustainable water as well as hygiene and sanitation services in their supply chains and in the communities they operate in.[3][4][5]
Corporate Water Stewardship
Through its water stewardship projects, the Pacific Institute strives to encourage companies around the world to commit to water stewardship action,[6] and provides resources aimed to help companies fulfill their commitments. [7] Its role as co-secretariat of the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate is one avenue for this work.[8][9]
Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems
The Pacific Institute works to sustain aquatic ecosystems.[10]Cooley, Heather; Cohen, Michael; et al. (2015). Incentive-based Instruments for Freshwater Management. Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, California. https://pacinst.org/publication/incentive-based-instruments-for-freshwater-management/</ref>[11] For example, the Pacific Institute has been a leading voice on the protection and preservation of the Salton Sea ecosystem since 1998[12][13][14][15], publishing reports[16][17][18] and journal articles[19][20][21][22][23] and participating on state advisory committees[24][25]
Water-Smart Cities
The Pacific Institute focuses on shifting from a supply-side orientation to one that also looks at the demand side.
[26] Their approach emphasizes smaller, decentralized systems; water efficiency; and recycling and reusing water.[27]
Sustainable Agriculture
The Pacific works with agricultural partners and through research to ensure clean water and a sufficient amount of food are available for the global population into the future.[28]
- Request replacing the section title “Research” with the more inclusive section title “Work.”
- Request replacing this text and citation: “Institute researchers in 2014 warned that the lack of replenishment water in the Salton Sea was leading to a ‘period of very rapid deterioration.’ With the increased shrinkage, dust storms would increase and a rotten-egg smell could reach to the coastal cities.[16]” with the following text, which provides a comprehensive overview of the Pacific Institute’s notable contributions:
• The Pacific Institute's most well-known publication is The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (published by Island Press (https://islandpress.org/ ), Washington, D.C.).[29][30][31]
• In 2014, Pacific Institute researchers found that the continued absence of restoration projects at the Salton Sea could lead to from $29 billion to as much as $70 billion in damages to public health, property values, and ecological services.[32]
• In 2012, the Pacific Institute produced "A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy" (published by Oxford University Press).[33]
• The Pacific Institute is co-secretariat of the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate initiative, which has the stated goal of mobilizing business leaders to advance water stewardship, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals in partnership with the United Nations, governments, peers, civil society, and others.[34][35]
• The Pacific Institute also developed the concept of a riparian restoration project along the lower Colorado River[36] and actively promoted the 1200-acre restoration project to federal, state, and local agencies, ultimately securing their support for the $20 million Laguna Division project.[37]
• Since 1996, the Pacific Institute has helped define and promote the concept of water as a human right. This framework has been adopted by the United Nations and governments at all levels, promoting life-affirming and equitable policies.[38]
• In 1986, Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute created the first assessment and warning to policy makers of the dangers of climate change for freshwater supplies[39], and the Pacific Institute later widely disseminated related analysis and maps revealing the threat of sea-level rise for California’s coast and economy[40][41][42][43]
- Request replacing the “Honors” section title with the more inclusive title “Honors/Awards.”
- Request changing “2011 Winner of the first U.S. Water Prize” to: Awarded the first U.S. Water Prize by the US Water Alliance in 2011
- After “Awarded the first U.S. Water Prize by the US Water Alliance in 2011” request add: Awarded the Department of the Interior’s “Partners in Conservation” award in 2009 and again in 2012[44][45]
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References
Cooley, H., M. Cohen, R. Phurisamban, and G. Gruère. (2016). Water risk hotspots for agriculture: The case of the southwest United States. OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5jlr3bx95v48-en
Glenn, E., K. Flessa, M. Cohen, P. Nagler, K Rowell, and F Zamora-Arroyo. (2008). Just add water and the Colorado River still reaches the sea. Environmental Management 40: 1-6 ; Cohen, M. (2006). The Delta’s Perennial Drought: Instream Flows for an Over-Allocated River. Global Business & Development Law Journal, 19: 115-128
Cohen, M., E. Glenn, J. Morrison, and R. Glennon. (2003). "Conservation value and management issues of the wetland and riparian habitats in the Colorado River delta in Mexico," pp. 1135-1145, in D.J. Rapport, W.L. Lasley, D.E. Rolston, N.O. Nielsen, C.O. Qualset, and A.B. Damania (eds.) Managing for Healthy Ecosystems, Boca Raton, Florida: Lewis Publishers
Cohen, M., C. Henges-Jeck, and G. Castillo-Moreno. (2001). A Preliminary Water Balance for the Colorado River Delta, 1992-1998. Journal of Arid Environments 49: 35-48
Pitt, J., D. Luecke, M. Cohen, E. Glenn, and C. Valdés-Casillas. (2000). Two Nations, One River: Managing for Nature in the Colorado River Delta. Natural Resources Journal 40: 819-864
“Salton Sea Management Plan: 10-Year Plan Committee”. California Natural Resources Agency. Retrieved 2018-1-29. http://resources.ca.gov/
Christian-Smith, Juliet; Gleick, Peter H., eds. (2012). A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. 334. ISBN 978-0-19-985944-3.
Gleick, Peter H. (1986). Methods for evaluating the regional hydrologic impacts of global climatic changes. Journal of Hydrology. 88, 97116
Gleick, Peter H. (1987a). The development and testing of a waterbalance model for climate impact assessment: Modeling the Sacramento Basin. Water Resources Research. 23 (6), 10491061
Gleick, Peter H.; Maurer, Edwin P. (1990). Assessing the costs of adapting to sea-level rise: A case study of San Francisco Bay. Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Berkeley, California and the Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 57 pp. with 2 maps. http://pacinst.org/publication/costs-sea-level-rise-adaptation/
Gleick, Peter H. (1987b). Regional hydrologic consequences of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases. Climatic Change. 10, (2), 137161
Gleick, Peter H.; Maurer Edwin P. (1990). Assessing the costs of adapting to sea-level rise: A case study of San Francisco Bay. Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Berkeley, California and the Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. 57 pp. with 2 maps. http://pacinst.org/publication/costs-sea-level-rise-adaptation/
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Below you will see where text from your request has been quoted and individual decisions, either accepting or declining the proposals, along with feedback related comments, have been inserted underneath each major proposal.
As of 2017, the Pacific Institute’s work is organized around six issue areas: climate and water, safe and affordable water, corporate water stewardship, healthy aquatic ecosystems, water-smart cities, and sustainable agriculture.
N Declined per guidance suggestions at WP:NOBLECAUSE
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Climate and Water
The Pacific Institute works to quantify climate change’s impacts on water systems and resources, supports climate resilience strategies, and expands strategies to incorporate climate and water issues into water planning and management.”
N Declined per guidance suggestions at WP:NOBLECAUSE
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Safe and Affordable Water
The Pacific Institute focuses on expanding universal access to sanitation and safe and affordable water, partly through their work with the CEO Water Mandate, which provides a platform for businesses to support sustainable water as well as hygiene and sanitation services in their supply chains and in the communities they operate in.
N Declined per guidance suggestions at WP:NOBLECAUSE
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Corporate Water Stewardship
Through its water stewardship projects, the Pacific Institute strives to encourage companies around the world to commit to water stewardship action, and provides resources aimed to help companies fulfill their commitments. Its role as co-secretariat of the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate is one avenue for this work.
N Declined per guidance suggestions at WP:NOBLECAUSE
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Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems
The Pacific Institute works to sustain aquatic ecosystems.
- Comment: The reference provided for these events is the Institute itself (or a proxy). If these are notable events, they will have been covered by an independent secondary party. Please provide references which originate from outside of the institute.
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For example, the Pacific Institute has been a leading voice
- Comment: It is unclear what is meant by "leading voice". This term could cover any number of actions. Please elaborate, along with secondary party references unconnected to the Institute.
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Water-Smart Cities
The Pacific Institute focuses on shifting from a supply-side orientation to one that also looks at the demand side. Their approach emphasizes smaller, decentralized systems; water efficiency; and recycling and reusing water.
- Comment: The reference provided for these events is the Institute itself (or a proxy). If these are notable events, they will have been covered by an independent secondary party. Please provide references which originate from outside of the institute.
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Sustainable Agriculture
The Pacific works with agricultural partners and through research to ensure clean water and a sufficient amount of food are available for the global population into the future.
N Declined per guidance suggestions at WP:NOBLECAUSE
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Request replacing the section title “Research” with the more inclusive section title “Work.”
Y Heading deleted. The contents of this heading have been subsumed under the History section.
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The Pacific Institute's most well-known publication is The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (published by Island Press (https://islandpress.org/ ), Washington, D.C.).
Y Placed under "Further reading" section.
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In 2014, Pacific Institute researchers found that the continued absence of restoration projects at the Salton Sea could lead to from $29 billion to as much as $70 billion in damages to public health, property values, and ecological services.
- Comment: This belongs in the article on Salton Sea
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In 2012, the Pacific Institute produced "A 21st Century U.S. Water Policy" (published by Oxford University Press).
Y Placed under "Further reading" section.
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The Pacific Institute is co-secretariat of the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate initiative, which has the stated goal of mobilizing business leaders to advance water stewardship, sanitation, and the Sustainable Development Goals in partnership with the United Nations, governments, peers, civil society, and others.
- Comment: The reference provided for this is the Institute itself (or a proxy). If these are notable events, they will have been covered by an independent secondary party. Please provide references which originate from outside of the institute.
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The Pacific Institute also developed the concept of a riparian restoration project along the lower Colorado River and actively promoted the 1200-acre restoration project to federal, state, and local agencies, ultimately securing their support for the $20 million Laguna Division project.
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Since 1996, the Pacific Institute has helped define and promote the concept of water as a human right. This framework has been adopted by the United Nations and governments at all levels, promoting life-affirming and equitable policies.
N Declined per guidance suggestions at WP:NOBLECAUSE
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In 1986, Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute created the first assessment and warning to policy makers of the dangers of climate change for freshwater supplies and the Pacific Institute later widely disseminated related analysis and maps revealing the threat of sea-level rise for California’s coast and economy.
N Declined per guidance suggestions at WP:NOBLECAUSE
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Request replacing the “Honors” section title with the more inclusive title “Honors/Awards.”
Y Changed to "Recognition"
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After “Awarded the first U.S. Water Prize by the US Water Alliance in 2011” request add: Awarded the Department of the Interior’s “Partners in Conservation” award in 2009 and again in 2012
Y Placed under "Recognition" section.
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