India Water, Poorer and Sicker, Service Dog Fraud

India is Running Out of Water Guest: Upmanu Lall, Director, Columbia Water Center, Chair of the Department of Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University India is in the midst of an historic water crisis. Chennai –the sixth largest city in the country -is already relying on trucks and trains to deliver water to its 10million residents. A government report estimates 21 major Indian cities, including Delhi and Bangalore, will completely exhaust their groundwater by next year. India is not alone. Last year, Cape Town, South Africa was days away from becoming the first major city on the planet to run entirely dry. Massive cuts to water use kept the city going until the rains came. Mexico City, Miami, Cairo, Sao Paolo, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles are all at risk of running out of water in the coming decade or two because of population growth, pollution and changing weather patterns. What lessons does the water crisis in India offer? The Income Gap’s Effect on Health Guest: Frederick Zimmerman, Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate your overall health? How many healthy days have you had in the last month? More than five million people have answered those questions on surveys from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the last 25 years. The trend is not encouraging. Wealthy Americans are pretty stagnant, health wise. Among the poor, health is declining. Limited Regulation in Service Dog Industry Makes People Susceptible to Fraud Guest: David Favre, Law Professor, Michigan State University, Editor of Animal Legal and Historical Center Website Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, service animals must be trained to help a person with a disability, and can go pretty much anywhere with them. But service dogs aren’t required to be registered and don’t have to wear any special vest or anything to identify them as a service animal. They do have to be trained, but not by a professional. You