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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (67318)	11/21/2002 10:26:27 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

<<"The problem in the West is not climate change, it's too many ... people using too much water," Patzert said. "If nothing happens, we're in trouble. If something happens, it's worse.">> A timely article for us as we are in the midst of our own little version of the "western water wars". We fight with the word.. The night before last, a bunch of us got together to discuss the deep commercial wells being drilled into our little aquifer with much of that water being moved OUT of our neighborhood or used for extensive landscaping and/or golf courses. The draw down has been hard since a few production wells went on stream. Many of our neighbors, all of us being on shallow domestic wells, are having to redrill or deepen. Our fingers are crossed. So yesterday afternoon, I helped draft a letter to the "Great Water Powers" in town outlining our concerns. We will see..

To: epicure who wrote (67318)	11/21/2002 10:58:06 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm glad to see them focussing in on the two many people issue. There's plenty of water to sustain a sustainable population. The problem is in-migration creating an unsustainable population level. We actually have one benefit here that the midwest doesn't have -- at least we have the possibility of desalinating water. Expensive, but it works.