water scarcity

About 20 million Americans enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans this go-round — the most since ACA marketplaces started enrolling people in 2013. Open enrollment for 2024 coverage ends tomorrow for most Americans. In this episode, the pandemic policies that boosted sign-ups. Plus, corporations are already fighting for opioid settlement money, minority small business owners face barriers to borrowing and a tiny Georgia town’s port could be the future of U.S. auto shipping.

There’s inflation, and then there’s hyperinflation. That’s what’s happening in Argentina, and it’s changing the way people do business and behave in the economy. We’ll talk about how Argentina is dealing with it and how it relates to the “sticky” inflation situation in the U.S. economy. Then, why reaching a compromise on the debt crisis may be harder than we thought. Plus, kids who love to read are making us smile.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “How a 12-year-old playbook is shaping the battle over the debt limit” from Politico

• • “The messy money reality at the center of the debt ceiling fight” from Marketplace

• • Biden-Harris administration proposal to protect Colorado River basin from U.S. Department of Interior

• • “Three states agree to reduce water usage so the Colorado river doesn’t go dry” from NBC

• • “TikTok Sues Montana Over State’s Ban of Its Service” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “TikTok sues Montana over its new law banning the app” from NPR

• • “Argentina Introduces 2,000 Peso Banknote. It’s Worth About $4” from Bloomberg

• • “Highest-denomination bill in Argentina is now the 2,000-peso note, worth $4” from The Guardian

• • “A tweet about a Pentagon explosion was fake. It still went viral.” from The Washington Post

• • “Fake Pentagon attack hoax shows perils of Twitter’s paid verification” from TechCrunch

• • TikTok from @casualgeographic on the unproblematic nature of the capybara

• • “Kids’ reading scores have soared in Deep South states” from AP

• • “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” from APM Reports

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Homebuilders have experienced major whiplash over the last few years. The pandemic originally caused them to slam the brakes on new development. Then the housing boom happened and they raced to catch up and build — but then they ran into supply-chain constraints. Then in 2022, the interest rate shock put the market into a freeze. But before that building can begin, how do developers find completely unused land and turn it into new homes? Who takes on that risk? Who buys and brokers that land? On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Chase Emmerson, the co-CEO of Emmerson Holdings, an Arizona-based boutique land investor. He explains the process of securing land, getting it permitted for development, obtaining water rights, and more. He also walks us through what he's seeing in the housing market right now.

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Water is all around us–quite literally, there is enough water in the air we breathe to meet all of humanity’s needs and then some. Engineering professor Cody Friesen invented a solar-powered device that captures this vapor and transforms it into drinking water. Cody began manufacturing these ‘hydropanels’ with his Arizona-based company SOURCE in 2014, and today they’re used in more than 50 countries worldwide.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Cody talks with Guy about the prevalence of water scarcity in the U.S. and around the globe, and his company’s work to become the world’s first renewable, fully-digitized drinking water utility. Plus, the two discuss how entrepreneurs should be thinking about the growing renewable energy market.

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The United Nations has found that 22% of the world's population does not have access to clean drinking water. Could we fix the water shortage by manufacturing water? Check out this HowStuffWorks podcast to learn more about manufacturing water.

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