Speed blogging

(Before It's News)

1. Do you know what’s in your building’s water tank? Yuck

2. Mexico City tries to tip the balance by requiring that restaurants serve safe (=filtered) tap water. That move may ween customers off of bottled water and soda. Next step: public, end-of-pipe water quality testing
3. These academics explain how farmers on the Ogallala expanded their production until they were vulnerable to drought [pdf], i.e., they went to the margin; farmers off the aquifer stuck with drought-tolerant (and thus less risky) crops
4. Janice Beecher explains that utility performance depends less on private vs public than on regulation and governance [pdf]
5. Who are the “winners” from climate change? Financial speculators

H/Ts to BB and DL

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