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Tehran is repeating the Shah's mistakes
The Iranian province of Khuzestan is oil-rich but water-poor. At the best of times, the southwestern region is a problem…
Water, water everywhere: Touring the Land of the Dead, by Maki Kashimada, reviewed
Maki Kashimada won the 2012 Akutagawa Prize for Touring the Land of the Dead, the strange, unsettling novella that makes…
Which water goes best with whisky?
Peaty water ought to be classed as a luxury. You have spent a day on the hill, a’chasing the deer.…
Watergate
Enough has been written about a Conservative government that knows its electoral success depends on Britain remaining a property-owning democracy,…
In my other life, I’m a water engineer
Friends arrived last week to find me in a mudhole, inside a cave-like tunnel into the hill, fiddling around with…
Across the river... and into the trees
Water accounts for 70 per cent of your planet, and 60 per cent of your body. Yet when do you…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
Want to avoid regulators? Do something useless
I had a water meter installed in my flat a few months ago. I looked at it just now and…
