Speed blogging

By admin | February 24, 2010

Submitted by Aguanomics Blog

  • The Atlas of Water reviewed.
  • “Ethiopia’s Newest Dam Suffers Tunnel Collapse Days After Inauguration” Italians and corruption involved.
  • This $700 water filter will save you money after two years (of not buying bottled water), but it looks good now. Get out your platinum card!
  • Cutting invasive trees to decrease demand for water (that can be used for solar). Win win?
  • IBM is helping with Sacramento’s sewage [IBM blog], but I don’t know if they are preventing spills (storm flows) or removing all waste.
  • Syrian farmers have REAL problems with drought — thousands of families migrating to cities. They use 90% of the country’s water to produce 20% of GDP, but there’s no market — for reallocation or rationing — in sight. Speaking of that, teaching farmers in the Middle East to use less water without using prices and markets for water is stupid.
  • “Desertification, flash floods, melting glaciers, heatwaves, cyclones or water-borne diseases such as cholera are among the impacts of global warming inextricably tied to water.”
  • USGS on how wells get contaminated.

hattips to DL and DW

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