Gaia Desert

This is something I wrote a few years ago.  A Haiti publication will come soon.

Here are some videos on bottled water. Although I drank SODIS water for one year in Cambodia using recycled PET, I always drink tap water in the United States. The Story of Bottled Water "Manufactured Demand" The industries response: www.bottledwatermatters.com I find much of this blog's information from the WaterWired blog. Here is another one on youtube . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QBZac3MSY

For a limited time, March 22 - April 2, you can download a free, interactive version of National Geographic's special issue 'Water: Our Thirsty World' http://www.natgeofreshwater.com/?of=500204105&bd=1

Is there going to be a "War fought over Water"? Are we going to run out of food to feed the world? Water Wired posted a very helpful link for those of us who worry about these questions: "Global Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?" Asit Biswas, an expert in international water resource management, has changed his mind. He no longer believes a world water crisis is a crisis of physical supply. It is, instead, a crisis of management.

For anyone with any doubts about climate change. Here is what the world's scientific societies say about climate change: please click here . This was prepared by Dr. Peter Gleick . I credit WaterWired again.

http://uanews.org/node/30432 What Mehl and his team found was that, consistent with prior research, higher well-being was associated with spending less time alone and more time talking to others. Furthermore, and maybe more surprisingly, they found that higher well-being was robustly related to having less small talk and more substantive conversations. Compared with the unhappiest participants in the study, the happiest participants had roughly one-third as much small talk and twice as many substantive conversations.

Stirring the Pot: John Briscoe on the Practice and Teaching of American Water Management in a Changing World This was posted on WaterWired The editorial is the water side of the book "dead aid". It explains why middle income countries are beginning to provide more international development support for hydrological projects than Developed nations. Download John_Briscoe_editorial_American_water_management