People from around the country still think New Orleans is under water. One of the quickest ways to rebuild the city is through the tourist industry. Fortunately, the tourist destinations were mostly spared.

Just looking at the crowd it's certainly better than we ever dreamed six months ago. Mardi Gras was significant in ways we've never seen before. This has been a homecoming for locals and for our tourists as well.

Water is an undercurrent to tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

We were both from the country and were more aware of water being an issue that wasn't going away, but when we talked to people about it they looked at us blankly and said: 'Why would you want to store water in your fence?',

Whilst South Africa has recently been hit by disastrous droughts and is also known to be a water scarce country; the current constant rainfalls are now posing a challenge.

We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there.