Speed blogging

• How to discuss food and ag like an adult.
  
  
• An Italian-American delivers clean water in Afghanistan, by avoiding the big budgets of aid agencies and working with locals on their scale.
  
  
• "A project to boost water resources in southern Africa, first announced in 2003, held its first executive meeting last month." Guess they're in a hurry...
  
  
• Hong Kong's water security is threatened by falling supplies from the mainland and excessive demand from prices that are too low. They need to read this blog.
  
  
• Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) is a national network of economists developing and applying new economic arguments for environmental protection with a social justice focus... E3 places economics graduate students in internships with environmental organizations during the summer months.
  
  
• Russ Roberts talks to Clifford Winston about government failure vs market failure.
  
  
• "David Uhlmann, professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, talks [MP3] with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the economics of clean drinking water."
  
  
• "Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán acquired a film of... blue-green algae... the nutrients feeding the bloom in Lake Atitlán come from sewage, agricultural run off, and increased run off as a result of deforestation around the lake basin."

Hattip to DL and JR