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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

What are they doing to reduce human consumption?  Are they requiring 
low-flow shower heads, faucets, toilets and front-loading washers?  Are they 
requiring carwashes to recycle their water?  Is there a moratorium on 
watering lawns, etc.?  Are restaurants required to only serve water when 
requested and to make other conservation adjustments?  What about 
businesses?  Is there a moratoreum on all new building?

I asked because during the last drought here, that is what was done.  The 
construction industry had fits but oh well.  Folks with current residences 
had priority when it came to water.

I know washing your car or watering your lawn was a $1000/fine the first 
time and then jail time.  All the car washes converted to those big water 
catching and recycling systems.

And, if they are sending water elsewhere, is that elsewhere being required 
to make the same efforts at water use reduction?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> I failed to mention that the mussels and sturgeon that they are
> protecting are not in GA, but in Florida. On the news today, they said
> that the CoE was actually *increasing* the amount of water released from
> the dam because other reservoirs further south in the watershed are dry.
> Personally, I think animals are better survivalists than we give them
> credit for..Mollusca is one of the oldest phylums-sturgeons are ancient
> fish-surely they have a great ability to adapt and survive relatively
> short periods of drought? Mussels are highly mobile..consider what the
> zebra mussel has done.