Summary: Despite more than $7 billion in Congressional funding, the Army Corps of Engineers says it's still four years and another $7 billion away from re-building the levees of New Orleans. Robert Bea, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley who authored the huge National Science Foundation report on why the Big Easy collapsed in the first place, proposes solutions to re-engineer the Gulf Coast. And Leslie Sabbagh, our Iraq blogger, joins us from a military air base for a very candid conversation about the state of the high-tech war. Plus, three easy ways to cut down on your water use this summer.
