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A Message From the Director
Freshwater is our planet’s most precious and vulnerable resource. While essential for life itself, challenges to its provision are too often overlooked. People across our planet, and here in California, face daily difficulty finding safe, clean, potable water. More than 40% of the world’s population lives in regions where clean water is increasingly scarce, while every day, nearly 1,000 children die from preventable water-borne and sanitation-related diseases. Freshwater is also a human security concern. Growing demands for food and energy, climate change-induced drought, and the fact that more than 260 river basins, home to over three billion people, are shared between two or more countries are all factors that lead to potentially worrisome conflicts. [Read More]
Our Mission Statement
Water UCI mobilizes seamless collaboration across the university to conduct research, provide educational and outreach programs, foster workforce development, and advance policy solutions to critical water problems facing the state, nation, and world.
Water UCI, located in the School of Social Ecology, serves to connect the water industry, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and K-12 schools with the vast resources of UCI and the UC system to implement solutions and keep the public informed.
Discover Water UCI
Water UCI is an interdisciplinary center in the School of Social Ecology that facilitates seamless collaboration across schools, departments, and existing research centers around questions of fundamental and applied water science, technology, management, and policy.
Watch this video to find out how UCI is making a difference.