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To: Sam who wrote (136075)	4/7/2010 1:10:15 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541944

No one in the southwest US has ever been charged "the going rate" for water- That is the fundamental problem. There are countries that simply dont have access to enough clean water for their needs. That isnt the problem for the US or likely even for the southwest. As long as we are still growing rice in California, I'll view this is an allocation/political problem more than a resource problem. Like everything else, we'll hit a crisis and reform the system. I wish we could do it earlier, but that isnt the way things work. Slacker

To: Sam who wrote (136075)	4/7/2010 5:28:33 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541944

I was hoping Wharf would comment on the scientific feasibility of this. We already pump water up a 1200 ft grade as it goes from the upper Sacramento Valley to LA--that's where the nuclear power comes in. And you're right about the charges for water not reflecting the true costs---we need to bring those 19th century "water rights" people into the 21st. Something on the scale of what I am talking about will have to happen or the people in those states will go the way of the Anazi.