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Keyser Söze

On 6/13/15 8:46 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:40:31 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 6/13/15 3:55 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:32:17 -0400, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 6/13/2015 1:18 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:22:17 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Greg, that's one thing about our little Midwest area. We have water but it seems like not enough of it. That sounds odd but our town has done surveys to invite manufacturing industries , and that's the stopper. "We don't have enough water".

So... That's the main concern here .

Water is going to be a much greater problem than oil in the 21st
century. The problem is that the things that might smooth out the
flood vs drought problems come with an environmental cost we are
unlikely to accept. China is not bothered by things like that. They
are changing the ecology of vast areas of China and not really
thinking that much of the consequences. It is somewhat like the US was
during the FDR administration when we were damming up major rivers and
flooding vast areas of the landscape out west to save water while
channelizing rivers in other places to get rid of fresh water. Both
created ecological disasters.
Now we are trying to restore the old "lazy" rivers in Florida and they
are blowing up dams all over to restore natural flows and reestablish
fish runs,

It would help if county water commissions didn't grant companies like
Nestle carte-blanche to pump water from our aquifers.

I doubt Nestle uses more water than a golf course and certainly
nothing like an almond orchard..

725 million gallons a year just for its bottled water products in
California.
A golf course can use 15-20 million gallons a month
That is tame compared to the crops they are growing in the desert in
California.
Pretty much all of the water they use is piped in.

Indeed, Florida is well-known for wasting its limited supplies of
potable water on golf courses, and for its rolling droughts. Years ago,
when we lived in NE Florida, lawn watering, even with shallow wells just
for that purpose, was not allowed. What color is your lawn? Green,
brown? Burnt out?

SE Florida and North Central Florida are not doing well, salt water is
seeping into your aquifer because the oceans are rising. Fun, fun, fun.

http://climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/drought