- China's water crisis and the high cost of moving to a low-carbon economy. "China may build another 4,000 wastewater treatment plants [$] as explosive growth continues." (Meanwhile, GE thinks that "reuse beats desalination" [$] in terms of profits and markets...)
- Gaza's groundwater will be gone in 5-10 years; 800,000 Syrian farmers are out of work due to unsustainable practices and climate change.
- Good news! Malaria will not get worse from climate change, and tomatoes like urine irrigation.
- Oct 15, 2009 is a global blog action day on climate change. (Every day is blog action day here!)
- Aussie desal plants have capital costs [$] of about A$5,000 per m^3/d of capacity.
- Mexico City's water system loses 45% of its water en route. The government intends to allow (limited) private participation [$] in improving on that number.
4 Oct 2009
Speed Blogging -- International Edition
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