Executive summary Today we proudly launch Getting serious with Waterblogged.info: Water Privatization, a page of web resources related to the question of whether small groups of people should be permitted to own and control the elixir of life and disseminate it to the rest of the globe for their personal gain. Obviously, we don’t think [...]
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Rather than delete this entire blog in a fit of existential despair during the darkest moments of our burnout, we decided to take our therapist’s advice and “take a little break, you know, kinda like a getaway,” to get our minds off of droughts, global desertification, and water wars, and more water wars. We took [...]
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Alternet.org‘s new section on water links to scores of up-to-date articles on all of your favorite local, domestic, and global water controversies and calamities–desalination, drought, dams, bottled water, water wars, groundwater depletion and fish extinction in and around the Mediterranean, and China’s efforts to surpass its economic rivals in polluting the environment, just to name [...]
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Almost quit my blog. It happens almost every day. It was getting kind of old, I could say that no one reads it anyway. But I didn’t, and I wonder why I feel like letting my geek flag fly. And I feel like I owe it to someone. We, the entire editorial staff of Waterblogged.info–including [...]
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Onion Radio News’s anchor, Doyle Redland, reports that the beverage industry was “rocked by a new poll” showing that “disease-free water tops the list of world’s favorite beverages.” The astute journalist muses that “many of these people might want potable water for the purpose of adding flavored powders.” This recent Onion infographic lists the approaches [...]
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The Earth’s Most Precious Resource May Be the 21st Century’s Most Lucrative Investment! Here’s How To Profit from the Coming Fresh Water Shortage! What really ticks off the admittedly self-righteous and sometimes easily-provoked Waterblogged.info editorial staff? People like Jeff Siegal, managing editor of the Green Chip Review newsletter, and author of the giddy opening sentences. [...]
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(Update: The blog Atlanta Water Shortage seems to have closed its doors. The url is now occupied by the web host and domain name sleazebags at Godaddy.com) Welcome to Waterblogged.info’s gala holiday special, the really special thing being that we posted at all. Let’s just call our editorial team’s failure to post anything for over [...]
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In the video embedded below, Paul Krugman discusses the housing bubble and the resulting financial crisis, which has yet to play itself out and could have a devastating effect on the U.S, and global economy. It is, as Krugman says, scary stuff. WTF, the observant reader might ask, does this have to do with the [...]
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(Update: The blog Atlanta Water Shortage seems to have closed its doors. The url is now occupied by the web host and domain name sleazebags at Godaddy.com) Due to time constraints imposed by our annoying day gig, we have to keep this brief. The usually reliable and thoughtful Atlanta Water Shortage folks report that Atlanta [...]
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(Update: The blog Atlanta Water Shortage seems to have closed its doors. The url is now occupied by the web host and domain name sleazebags at Godaddy.com) The Waterblogged.info team was heartened to learn that Georgia state officials, who have done such a great job planning in the past, are confident that Atlanta will not [...]
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AquaforniaNewsy essential blog about Southern California water prospects
