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Robert Walton wrote:
 On the national news, it was
> reported that they made water in restaurants on request only and were
> saving water that was not drank to mop floors. They should have been
> doing that all along.

I totally agree.

> People in Richmond that live on the lake that is the reservoir are
> upset because they are being stopped from pumping water from the
> drying up lake to water their lawns. When the shore of the lake moved
> away from the pipes they pump from, they just added extensions and
> kept pumping. Their drinking water comes from this lake. One guy
> interviewed on the news said he did not think that he was doing
> anything illegal or immoral.

My boss lives in an upscale area in an Atlanta suburb.  He says he can't 
live in a million dollar house without having a million dollar yard. I 
asked him what he intends to do when there is no more water in Lake 
Alatoona(the worst hit lake in GA and the reservoir that supplies his 
area).  He said he would drill a well. <bev rolls eyes> What is it with 
people that think there is an unlimited supply of water?  I told him 
that all those chemicals his landscape company uses has probably 
polluted his aquafer.  The look on his face was priceless.  I don't 
think he ever thought of that.

> I said that people should prevail, unfortunately, our species is like
> a plague of locusts on the land.

Yes, we are.

B

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