The "politicization" of the drought "could be the inflection point" that gets investors serious about water, says Simon Gottelier of Impax Asset Management in London, which specializes in environmental investing. Kathleen Pender, SF Chronicle, March 15, 2014
 
You betcha! -- blj
 
 
3-15-14
San Francisco Chronicle
California drought spawns investment opportunity

 Hyporcrisy dripped from the rafters and eves of the new UC Merced on March 3 when the great local water whine went up for the benefit of state officials meeting to "listen" to exactly such eloquent, entitled, hereditary complaint. 
The very ground on which the whine was made and listened to receives water and sewer services from the City of Merced, although UC Merced is outside the city limits. At the time of the hookup and probably still, this is a direct violation of the City's own ordinance, which prohibits City sewer and water service outside the City's corporate limits. 

 
We are happy to see that the latest cypher to hold the position of chancellor at UC Merced writes so well about the campus’s impeccably green water policies and, particularly, its state-of-the-art technology.

 Chronicles of the hydraulic brotherhood..lloydgcarter.com

 There are two things that most well-read people knew about Russia 40 years ago: they had fought for their warm water port on the Black Sea, Sevastopol; and the Ukraine was one of the great “breadbaskets” of the world, along with the Midwestern states of the US and the Pampas of Argentina. We don’t mean “breadbasket” as it is misused by propagandists for the irrigation and water districts in the San Joaquin Valley; we mean it as one of the great grain growing regions of the world.