You know it takes a real journalist to work Otis Redding and Herman's Hermits into the same post.
What's more remarkable, it is a post about water!
That's what Emily Green has done with her current The Week That Was post. It is one of her best.
Otis is still (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, singing plaintively about leaving his home in Georgia. That song was Otis' best, and it hit #1 after his death. But Otis, it's not 'Frisco'! Peter Noone and the boys have neither milk nor life, and were terribly underestimated (in my esteemed opinion as a late 1960s DJ). The Internet connection in my Paris hotel room is free but sporadic. Times are tough all over.
The UNESCO public WiFi is great. Must be Ted Turner's billion dollars at work.
Hey, the big news! Fiji Water will not abandon Fiji; they will pay the egregious water tax that Prime Minister Frank Bananananarama wants to levy. I am so glad that we will not be denied the right to choose stupidity when it comes to drinking water. Gees, if you're going to drink bottled water, use something produced closer to home. And don't buy that 'green' business; never mind what Fiji's shill says!
And if things aren't bad enough for Lynda and Stewart Resnick, Fiji's owners, the FTC is hassling them over inflated health claims made by their pomegranate juice. What's a billionaire power couple to do?
She's got the story from the CSM about Sana'a, Yemen's capital, running out of water. Here in Paris at the UNESCO meeting I asked a Yemeni fellow about that and he said, he didn't know, he hasn't lived in Yemen for 10 years. Their country may be desiccating, but the Yemeni are no dummies. Maybe Fiji Water can help out with some humanitarian assistance.
Plenty on water shortages: Israel, Malaysia, the Southwest USA, and Cape Town. Plus more on: water quality, the Bay-Delta, invasive species, Sacramento's STP, Florida landscaping, Maryland doing its part to clean up Chesapekae Bay, DC's 'water crisis', Jerry Brown, the Louvre, New Mexico, Colorado, Chattanooga, and lots more!
Be sure to read her post.
I'm off to the conference, but before I go, here's a quote from one of my favorite Virginia newspapers (my real favorite is the Richmond Times-Disgrace...oops....Times-Dispatch).
"An unlimited water supply for the future in Petersburg-Colonial Heights and surrounding counties is assured with the adoption of an ordinance setting up an Appomattox River Water Authority.” — Fifty-year-old quote from the Petersburg Progress-Index, Region’s thirst for water on pace to outgrow Lake Chesdin’s capacity, Progress-Index, 29 November 2010 (from Emily Green's post)
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