- 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.
12 August 2011
Speed blogging
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People can complain all they want about the NYT's Ian Urbina and his frack-focused "Drilling Down" series - his methods, his use of anonymous sources, his writing style, his conclusions, etc. - but he has gotten regulators to move and the gas industry, already on the defensive, to respond (e.g., the treatment of radioactive produced water in PA). Seems like bringing substantiated pieces of information to light is the job of the muckraking Fourth Estate. It's mostly true that no one really likes _real_ journalists, especially the investigative lot, and this ire can sometimes be a sign of job well done.
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