Water shortage solution at hand?

According to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/02/water_vs_energy_analysis/ desalinization plants have come of age and are currently suitable for solving water shortage problems.The article also suggests that politicians could allocate the funds to deploy this solution but just don't want to. Take this information to your representative and senators, pronto.

Valid success? What to look for.

The Republicans assert that the questioning of the success of the bankers is completely unwarranted. Well success comes primarily from innate skill and things that can be taught. Innate skill is hard to gauge, but usually you can see a range of success at a given task such as basketball among those who are not at the peak of innate ability. Such a range has not been observed and the instructional material has not been made available, so to those without an agenda it is obvious that the legitimacy of the success of the bankers is subject to question.