CICS Executive Director and ESSIC / AOSC Professor, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, was featured in a Forbes magazine Op-ed entitled, “When The Well Runs Dry: The Currency Of Water.” The Op-ed, which was co-authored by Dan Bena, Senior Director of Sustainable Development at PepsiCo, suggests that governments and communities alike must begin to approach water resource management as a cash flow like commodity, managed in a fiscally responsible manner.
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
