Speed blogging

• 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