By admin | November 30, 2009
Submitted by Aguanomics Blog
Some clever researchers have found the source of arsenic contaminating well water in Bangladesh: human-built ponds. This is great news — the first step to ending one of the greatest poisonings in history.
Put these guys in charge (they understand risk): “Citing fears of rising costs from climate change, insurance companies have begun changing the terms of their policies to encourage customers to act more green.”
Hazardous waste in water and air, and how the government caused it. (22 pages — take your time 
A researcher has made a measuring device that indicates if industrial water is “clean enough,” which promises to cut demand for water by up to 50 percent.
China is uprooting 330,000 people (and “paying” them) as it begins digging canals to bring water to Beijing (Delivery — but not the end of their water problems — in 2012) Sounds like they might like to do the Peripheral Canal!
Chris Brooks compares water use in New Mexico and Texas (same basin and dirt, different property rights) and finds [doc] that “significantly more water is pumped to irrigate lots more land under the rule of capture [TX] than under prior appropriation [NM].”
Field trials of (GMO’d) drought-tolerant maize have begun in South Africa. Speaking of that, here’s a 3pp Economist article on Monsanto.
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