[wbill]

And actually, the only thing that came out of the drought is that the local gov't started to distribute water bills on a *monthly*, rather than a *quarterly* basis. It was so that "People could more closely monitor their water usage".

I've since moved, but read not too long ago that water rates were going up because of "rises in administrative overhead". Go figure.

[Kellis91789]

It kind of amazes me that 80 years after the Great Dust Bowl drought, America still has massive floods every year in some places and water shortages in others.

Wouldn’t the savings in Federal flood insurance pay for aqueducts and pipelines to carry water away from some of those Northeastern rivers and let it restore the underground aquifers in the MidWest and West ?