"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
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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?

Lots of the ag water is wasted. So cheap they flood irrigate. Grow rice in
the middle of the Cadillac Desert, Grow subsidized cotton with the
subsidized water. My lawn puts O2 in the air, enhances life, and gives a
place for the neighborhood dogs to take a ****. **** you normally find with
the lawn mower or your shoe.