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  • From: Martin Naylor <martinwnaylor@yahoo.com.au>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] That cruel joke called water law
  • Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:46:31 -0700 (PDT)

Let's keep in mind that water pumping is causing sinkholes and dry wells in locations all over the country, and that city development (such as San Diego as you mention) long ago exceeded local water supplies
 
How much truth is in this many years ago I was reading about global warming and it said India was drilling 3 foot to get water it is now 100 ft, here in Australia it stated it takes 1000 years to replace 3 foot of water, I wonder how much truth there is in that
martin

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--- On Sat, 16/8/08, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] That cruel joke called water law
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Received: Saturday, 16 August, 2008, 1:01 PM

Let's keep in mind that water pumping is causing sinkholes and dry wells in
locations all over the country, and that city development (such as San Diego as
you mention) long ago exceeded local water supplies - without being able to
blame it on the "Indian savages". In such cases I'd name the
developers as the true savages. In some cases everybody tries to sue everybody
else, nothing unique about casinos. BTW no one ever criticizes the country clubs
that have a thousand times more golf courses than the Indians. 

I'd also point out that reservations don't just claim sovereignty, they
have every legal, moral, and historical right to absolute, unlimited use of
their own land - what little is left after cheating them out of 99% of it. A
great deal of our state, NM, is sovereign tribal lands, but as usual it's
the most useless areas for farming or living. 80% of the Dine' population
must live without electricity, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of people.
Few of us could survive in such extreme deprivation. And we just might get the
chance to try. Karma's a bitch. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
Old World Gardens, best tasting heirloom European varieties grown naturally


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On 8/15/2008 at 7:34 PM Don  Bowen wrote:

>>   Consider that Los ANgeles, San Diego, and most of that region get
>their
>> water from other parts of the state.
>>   Cut off the aqueducts, and you'd soon find a serious major
problem
>> there.
>
>If San Diego collected all its rainfall and drilled every possible well it
>could only supply about 5% of its water needs.
>
>There is a casino on an Indian reservation that has put in a huge golf
>course.  To get the water they have drilled several wells.  During the
>fires
>several years ago several houses near the reservation burned because they
>did not have water, the reservation had drawn down the water table and the
>wells had run dry.
>
>Another huge casino in Riverside county is pumping so much water that the
>ground is starting to subside and homes are starting to crack.  Homeowners
>have tried to sue but the Indians have blocked all such attempts by
>claiming
>sovereignty.  The same tribe threw out half its members to increase the
>income for the remaining members to $40,000 a month.  They are refusing all
>court challenges to require DNA tests under the same shield.
>
>Don Bowen  KI6DIU
>http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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