Link Goodness: Water etc.

Recent water links:

• Almonds in California: They use up a lot of water, but they deserve a place in California’s future.
  California's wealthy lagging in water conservation - LA Times

• California Urban Water Use Restricted While Regulators Give Oil Industry Two More Years To Operate Injection Wells In Protected Groundwater Aquifers | naked capitalism
  
• Climate change and the growing risk of “megadroughts” in California and the southwestern United States
  
• Dew collecting greenhouse to fight water and food scarcity in Ethiopia : TreeHugger
  
• Half of urban California’s water is used to water the grass - MarketWatch
  How you might be contributing to California’s water woes - The Washington Post
  
• In California, a Wet Era May Be Ending - NYTimes.com
  
• Nestlé has been pumping water from a national forest with an expired permit for over 25 years
  
• Nestlé’s despicable water-crisis profiteering: How it’s making a killing — while California is dying of thirst - Salon.com
  
• This roadkill map says a lot about California’s drought | Grist
  

   

  Compost and other links:

• 42 Flowers You Can Eat : TreeHugger
  
• Beyond Compost: 5 Ways to Get Your Soil Ready This Spring by Peter D'Auria and Miles Schneiderman — YES! Magazine
  
• Compost tea calculator includes recipes and guides for brewing your own fertilizers : TreeHugger
  
• Compost Tea Recipe
  
• From Watersheds to Mountains, What If We Based Our Borders on Nature? by Rachael Stoeve — YES! Magazine
  
  
• How to Grow Oyster Mushrooms at Home (and Get Plenty of Flavor and Protein for Free) by YES! editors — YES! Magazine
  
• Plant this with that: The science and folklore of companion planting — Homestead — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine