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By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter Published: 07:00 July 13, 2014 Abu Dhabi: Food waste adds pressure on the UAE's scarce water resources, according to a senior official of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The article talks about food waste in the UAE and how it affects the current issue of water scarcity. Since production of food needs water, so when it goes to waste the water used to produce goes to waste. In addition to wasting of water, all natural resources used to grow, process, package, transport, and to market in goes to waste. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation representitive stated that more public awareness is needed to inform the population of water scarcity. In addition to that he informed up to 30 percent of natural resources and energy used to produce food is wasted along with the lost or wasted food. That tells us that more water is even wasted, while other countries suffer from starvation and lack of water. This article interested me as this is new information so I agree that public awarness should be increased as this is a huge issue.

10% of China's land is arable. In this percentage, a tons and tons f grain is produced. Over the years, due to shifts in non-price determinants of either demand or supply, the equilibrium of the grain market has been disturbed. The market, has not been able to adjust to a new equilibrium hence there is an excess supply of grain which is going waste. China needs to apply the price mechanism to attain an equilibrium, and stop a surplus from being produced.

this article talks about how Curitiba is trying (as usual) to not waste the scarce resources that we have by reducing (or trying to reduce) the combustion of fossil fuels so Curitiba (and many parts of Brazil) is taking one step closer of being a sustainable place.this articles also shows that the people who are producing this product analyzed what the people in the urban areas want most (transportation)and then tried to meet there needs, so the demand for this product is great and may mean that the materials used to make a regular car are used to make BRTs

Nearly five years since the recession ended in June 2009, economic policy discussions continue to focus on dubious short-term countercyclical measures to "stimulate demand." The Economic Report of the President for 2014 wastes an entire chapter rehashing the jobs supposedly "saved or created" by the 2009 fiscal stimulus and Federal Reserve easing.

This article discusses how water is being sold too cheaply, even when there is a drought. Here price mechanism should come in to regulate and allocate scarce resources. It says that people consuming the water have no incentive to stop wasting if the price is so low

Also, Water is quite inelastic since people will continue to use it (largely because we need it). The fact that it is so inelastic can actually be dangerous. this is because we continue to consume it whether or not the price increases.