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  • From: "Greg and April" <gregandapril@earthlink.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Small Scale Integrated Farmstead - A Model for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:33:37 -0600

By international treaty, a certain amount of the Colorado river must flow to Mexico and meet certain levels of cleanness, even if that means that CA residents losses their unmetered water, and they are doing everything they can to prevent that, even at the expense of many of their farmers.

Everyone that draws from the Colorado, is kind of ticked off at the unmetered water usage that goes on in CA, but, right now the people with the buck$ in CA, are fighting left and right to keep what they think is theirs.

I suspect that L.A. is going be like Phoenix and Las Vegas, where only the people with money will have any water.

Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 15:24
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Small Scale Integrated Farmstead - A Model for Sustainable Agriculture



And that water is already being targeted by other areas as aquifers fall. Freshwater may soon command a higher price than oil. Without oil you can't grow with agricultural machinery. Without water, you can't grow at all.

The real problem is the future cost of electricity for air conditioning. It's 103 today in Phoenix. What a waste. It's 74 here just east of Albuquerque.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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On 5/11/2006 at 1:19 PM Greg and April wrote:

As long as Lake Mead and Lake Powell exist, they will too.

Greg H.

----- Original Message ----- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:57
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Small Scale Integrated Farmstead - A
Model for Sustainable Agriculture



I don't count Phoenix or Vegas because they're history - they just don't
know it yet. But wherever there's water or enough rainwater to collect and
store, they can garden and grow more in less space than commercial
agribusiness would ever believe.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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