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To: lurqer who wrote (31571)	1/12/2004 3:18:16 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

I didn't realize it had been dry there. Usually, when I have been calling my mom on the (SF) Peninsula, she says it has been raining within the last few days. But, with as much as we've had, if it quits today and doesn't start until Nov, we would be in a heap of trouble, too. California will be more and more on the edge, until desalinization becomes economically feasible. Too many people living in a desert, or semi-arid regions. Bakersfield gets like 6 inches a year. I'll bet some of the growers use 6 inches twice a week. Too many golf courses in the desert. Too many acres of water-intensive alfalfa grown in the desert. I remember our first real drought in the '70's; all of us up here were working really hard to save water. In the meantime, a new development in SoCal was filling up a man-made lake with NorCal water. Complete disconnect with these people. Do they even know where their water comes from? Rat