Speed Blogging

• Oil prices are going to go up again.
  
  
• Larry King made me realize how success as a human is merely a question of accepting yourself.
  
  
• A 2004 article on aquifer mining in the Middle Rio Grande. Flood irrigation good, selling water rights to cities bad.
  
  
• "The Little Hoover Commission is reviewing governance issues around the supply and management of water resources at the state level, including the interrelated roles of different state agencies and recommend improvements, if needed, that would strengthen governance and increase efficiency, transparency and accountability."
  
  
• "This article exposes the United States government's role in blocking the disbursal of millions of dollars in international bank loans that would have had life-saving consequences for the Haitian people... The data reveal that Haitians experience obstacles concerning every aspect of the right to water: difficulties with water availability, limited physical and economic accessibility, and poor water quality... In response to the undeniable link between the international community's political interference and the intolerably poor state of potable water in Haiti, the article concludes with a recommendation that all actors in Haiti follow a rights-based approach to the development and implementation of water projects in Haiti."
  
  
• Uh oh... (a continuing series): "In the first global assessment of the distribution and condition of bivalve shellfish reefs, researchers looked in almost 200 places and found that oyster reefs were at less than 10% of their historical abundance as measured by records dating back between 20 and 130 years. They also found a number of reefs to be “functionally extinct”. In other words, there were so few oysters left that they were unable to form a reef. The researchers estimate that 85% of oyster reefs have been lost over the past 150 years."
  
  
• "After years of reluctance, scientists and governments are now looking to adaptation measures as critical for confronting the consequences of climate change. And increasingly, plans are being developed to deal with rising seas, water shortages, spreading diseases, and other realities of a warming world."

hattips to CC and DW