15Nov
There are many cities in the world where the tap water is undrinkable, and I guess if in ’space’, you need to conserve.
Drinking your own urine is on the plate for the astronauts this year. This wastewater recycling gizmoid cost $250 million and is one of the featured experiments on this trip. Two more nuggets of information that make my natural ease turn to quease.
The current aim is for 92% of all the water drunk on board to be produced by the crew’s urinary tracts and the moisture in the air- some of which might be created, one supposes, by sweating crew members.
Rather distasteful, no? I guess one day urine and the next day urout…
10Nov
President Bush has had his staff drawing up deregulation rules for the past few months on a variety of topics from release of carbon into the air, relaxing coal burning limitations, relaxation of coal mining rules, easing of water pollution rules and degrading protection for endangered species.
His plan is to enact deregulations by proclamation (executive order) and Congress will not be interested in what Bush does after the election, as a good number of them may be leaving. The period for reversing any declaration is 60 days, which will expire on Bush’s watch and the results will take months or years of legislative wrangling to reverse. 
In the end, America suffers because Bush is paying back the big business interests who put him in office.
One more act proving that he cares not for the people of America, only for big business donors to his campaigns.
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