Speed blogging

• Lots of data and reports on integrated urban water management (via EU research).
  
  
• Fleck on the history of the Winter(s) Doctrine (Indian tribal water rights) and Econ 101: don't size infrastructure for outliers (floods or droughts) -- it's not cost effective.
  
  
• Frackers in Ohio pay $10/1,000 gallons of water ($3,258 per acre foot). Any complaints? Maybe from people who have had their water contaminated -- as was discussed in an EPA report from 1987.
  
  
• An estimate of the methane released from melting permafrost puts the CO2e emissions at triple current emissions. Time to adapt.
  
  
• Famine in the Horn of Africa is more about government failure (and lack of government) than drought.