Speed Blogging

• (via NS) Counting [pdf] San Francisco's 6,000 homeless (tricky! political!) -- related post
  
  
• GWI learned five things at the water summit:
  1. There is no such thing as economic water scarcity, only political water scarcity.
  2. The oil companies are waking up to water.
  3. Three slides [showing shortages] are responsible for billions of dollars of losses in the water industry.
  4. Meeting the Millennium Development Goal for water can be easy.
  5. The campaign against private water is losing clarity
  
  
• Israel claims that Palestinians are polluting their water. Maybe it's the other way around? (I'd bet.)
  
  
• Watch what a 7.2 earthquake does to a swimming pool. (Stop! Tsunami Time!)
  
  
• Damn, I missed Colbert. Watch these segments:
  • Why Dominos says that their pizza was crap, 
  • How corporations can pay for political office but not pollution clean-up, and
  • Glen Beck's helpful offer of "several pennies worth" of non-hybrid seeds for only $149.
  LOLz but also great analysis!