On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:12:13 -0500, Keith Nuttle
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CalifBill wrote:
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:40:55 -0600, thunder
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:32:25 -0500, gfretwell wrote:


Your tide is a daily thing. The drop in western lakes is probably going
to just be forever. When they built the dams the rivers were flowing
wild and the valleys filled to 300-400 feet behind the dam. Now the west
is using water a lot faster than the river can put it back so the lakes
are drying up.
Add to that, a drought. Just this past week, Schwarzenegger declared a
drought emergency.
As the old margarine commercial used to say,
"it's not nice to fool mother nature".
You guys tricked the desert into thinking it was prime river bottom
land and now nature is striking back.

We have enough water. But agriculture is big political lobby powers and get
subsidized water that grows subsidized crops. About $9.50 an acre foot for
water. Homes pay about $250 and acre foot. And the farmers are reselling
the $9.50 water for $200 to Los Angeles water. And Ag uses 80% of the water
in the state, to supply about 2.4% of GDP and employment.


In the US, I believe farms produce 100% of all of the food we eat. What
is your is you over feed lawn producing except run off that is polluting
th environment?

Don't think it's 100% any more.
Agree about the lawns.
Here around the Great Lakes water is cheap, but I never water the lawn
anyway. Just the flowers.

--Vic