High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term Peak Water has been put forward as a concept to help understand growing constraints on the availability, quality, and use of freshwater resources. The clearest definitions of the term were laid out in a 2010 peer-reviewed article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Peter Gleick and Meena Palaniappan. They define peak renewable, peak non-renewable, and peak ecological water. There is a vast amount of water on the planet but sustainably managed water is becoming scarce. An updated assessment was published in August 2011 in the Stockholm International Water Institute's journal. Much of the world's water in underground aquifers and in lakes behaves like a finite resource by being depleted. The phrase peak water sparks debates similar to those about peak oil. The concept has sparked such high interest that The New York Times chose the phrase "peak water" as one of their 33 "Words of the Year" for 2010. Данное...

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