Loren Thompson is making sense with this. An especially troubling aspect of the present situation is that the cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act to reduce deficits could grow bigger if the president’s jobs bill passes, because the special committee would need to find additional savings to cover the price-tag for its package of tax changes and targeted spending. So in the current environ...

Addressing water efficiency in farming, which accounts for two thirds of EU water use, should be one of the priorities in reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the head of the European Commission's water unit suggests.

The public sector in Scotland is not moving fast enough to cut its costs and make ­efficiency savings, according to a spending watchdog.

The European Commission will consider new measures to decrease water consumption in buildings, agriculture and other areas after a major review of current EU water legislation has been completed by 2012.

AT LEAST 1,200 jobs are to be axed in a massive shake-up of the way public services are provided in the Capital.

Well, there was always a risk of it happening in the open instead of by the back door via Government Debt. The BoE is preparing to reduce the value of our savings by starting up the printing presses. Imagine if you were a brewery and you had a warehouse containing full barrels of beer, your savings. The State is coming. It is driving up in a tanker full of water. It is about to break into your war...

Access to water resources is meant to be the emerging 'driver of conflict' as we enter the 21st century. Climate change, population increases, and urbanisation mean increasing pressures on scarce water resources, making conflict more likely. We are yet to see our first 'water war', thankfully. But in Kosovo, the government is keeping a close eye on the water issue - and the long term weather repor...

Water is an industry in need of reform, the last monopoly. Uniquely, water is the one utility essential to life itself. Our water supplier depends solely upon where we happen to live. Regional water boards became Public Limited Companies in 1989 and these were privatised the same year. There was no fundamental restructuring such as

The European Commission is planning measures to rein in water use, with a particular focus on savings in agriculture, buildings and industrial processes.

The news came in tonight that another of our friends will find out if he has a job tomorrow as his bank cuts 10% of its staff. I know a number of people who have lost their jobs so far. I was speaking to a car sales man this week and he says that availability of new cars is actually now getting worse. That suprised me, surely they would be falling over themselves to off load cars ? Apparently not ...