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This site is mainly focused on water issues, of course.  But anything that has to do with climate change and human civilization relates to water and how we will learn to survive as humans in a very changed physical environment.  Yale's School of Forestry has a blog that anyone interested in environment and climate should be subscribing to.  It's called Environment 360: Opinion, Analysis, Reporting and Debate.  The digest has a really important article in it this week that headlines:

We started this site simply because we woke up to the waste created by bottled water and its carbon and environmental impacts.  But it did not take long for us to realize how many other issues that water leads us to.  Not the least of which is the ongoing privatization of what have long been considerd public goods.  This is a concern that relatively few Americans seem to even think about.  Probably because of the over arching mythology that we all absorb about the power and value of private property - a myth perpetrated by the largest property holders, no doubt, for obvious reasons.  B

Here is a really interesting article, one I would simply not have expected to see in as mainstream a news source as US News.  Bottled water, though challenged somewhat by the recent push to "green" concerns, worries about health, energy and garbage overload, still manages to trump almost every objection with its convenience and seemingly low price.  The good news is that people are thinking about their behaviors, the discussions are cropping up everywhere, and as this article indicates, there are real problems with bottled water that more people need to know about.

A recent USA Today story headline: Feeling thrifty, the thirsty reach for tap, not bottle

With a day's worth of bottled water — the recommended 64 ounces — costing hundreds to thousands of dollars a year depending on the brand, more people are opting to drink water that comes straight from the sink.

I was happy to be sent this article by Michele Turk who writes for AOL's Walletpop (her article was spurred by the article I wrote on Turn to Tap about bottled water and youth sports).  Thanks Michele, your article asks the right questions.

by Michele Turk May 15th 2008 @ 6:00PM