The last drop. Like the poorest people everywhere, the residents of New Delhi's slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a municipal system of pipes. [News Source]

BSE likely came from feed (Iowa Farmer) OTTAWA (AP) -- An Alberta, Canada, dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with BSE (mad-cow disease) probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. [News Source]

Book Review: Faillace finds hope in writing (The Burlington Free Press) When Linda Faillace started writing an account of her family's fight to save their sheep from seizure by the U.S. Department of Agriculture because they were suspected of carrying a disease in the same family as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or "mad cow"), it was largely just a form of therapy. [News Source]