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To: tejek who wrote (99865)	8/19/2011 9:13:12 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

It's hard to see long term climate change in the short term, and decades are in that grey area between short and long term, but the west has been arid for thousands of years. Now, given the huge population, I would think that even a normal few decades long "dry cycle" that might have been survivable for a limited population could now be highly disruptive... not in terms of human deaths - people can move - but in economic terms. However, what does one do? Banning golf courses and obvious water waste is a start. Charging high water rates to discourage consumption is another. But is that enough? I can't see putting a population cap on the greater Phoenix area. much of the West, including Texas, has experienced less and less rain over the last three decades. Many scientists think its a permanent trend.