• ImagineH20 has announced 10 finalists “for business plans that offer the greatest promise of breakthroughs in the efficient use and supply of water.” I know of two of them.
• The end-of-year double-issue of the Economist always has amazing articles:
  • Migration and the American Dream
  • Socrates, debate and American media
  • Rice in Japan
  • Crony capitalism in China
  • Being a foreigner
  • Why businesses will save the world
  • Newspapers will survive, again
  • Religion as an evolutionary outcome
• What’s wrong with America? A lot of people act like idiots, and a lot of people make a living encouraging that behavior.
• The tension between development (dams) and preserving the environment in Brazil.
• China’s South-North diversion results in water that’s “too expensive.” What do you bet that the government subsidizes it, adding economic damage to the environmental damage of that project?

Hattips to KA, LC and DL