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Columbus Dispatch Picks its Pork

…Nutrition, Rural Development ($20 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance) Title 3 $14 billion Commerce, Science, Justice Title 4 $4.8 billion Defense Title 5 $49 billion Energy and Water Title 6 $8.5…

Results of the Pick your Pork Wonkathon

…operation is overseas. Sorry friends, this looks to be pretty clean. That $500 million is split between: $224 million “National Boundary and Water Comm, US and Mexico: Construction” $224 million…

Healthcare – the American System at its Finest

…another six minutes on this thing that was essentially a bag of water sloshing around. Meanwhile, a number of the regulars were coming and going, getting their six minutes in…

A Brief Interlude/PSA

by Ken Houghton My article for Institutional Investor on the investment opportunities available in Emerging Markets Infrastructure, most especially in water and sanitation, is available on their website (subscribers only,…

Going after efficiencies

…jugs. … He spoke while standing in pools of the soapy run-off from milk crates that had just been washed. About 100,000 gallons of water a day are used at…

Farm income

…like the water flowing through a faucet into a bathtub. Some of the flow of income is from selling crops and livestock, and some comes from government support. The problem…

Dirty statistics

…few people seek medical attention or make the connection that the water made them sick. There’s a huge need to study that connection, but the records pretty much don’t exist….

Sewerage in the Shenendoah and Chesapeake Bay

The other end of the the water problem continues as well. A group of environmental advocates is suing Virginia over a decision it says allows a sewage plant to continue…

Today is for Brazil

…aimed at developing oil fields in deep-water regions of the Gulf of Mexico, where the company has been snapping up acreage in recent years. In February, the company started producing…

Progress on right to know about sewerage!!

Right to know hearings for contamination of local water resources. Dr. Summers, from the Maryland Department of Environment, explained how Maryland’s strong monitoring and notification requirements had helped quantify problems…