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Originally Posted by Ski Bum
"Wasting" water... always wondered why that was even a phrase. You can't "waste" water. It doesn't disappear, it stays in the water cycle. Same amount of water on the planet today as there was yesterday. We just need to get the water to where it is needed, from where there too much of it. That means an all-of-the-above strategy. Efficient use, pipelines, dams for flood control and storage. But we can't have that now can we? Might drown a snail.
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Originally Posted by Deandd
All the golf courses in the desert west were forced to use non-potable recyled water years ago. The courses that could not or would not were forced to close. They do not draw water from any drinking sources …..
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Finally---two intelligent posts on the subject. The tree huggers want everyone to believe that the planet is running out of water, when in reality it is a distribution issue. There are swamps and there are deserts, and that's just the way it is. When you populate a desert, you have to bring water in. The water level in Lake Mead ultimately depends on snowfall in the back range of the Colorado Rockies, and that whole Hoover Dam system is highly controlled. Those that envision it as a dry lake bed probably also believed that the polar ice caps had completely melted in 2010.