"West Texas will dry up and blow away if people are not stopped from harvesting area water..."
Is this economic realism or "doom and gloom" designed to win votes?
To: Theodore R.
It is a little of both. Water harvest has always been beyond sustainability, but waste and greed have grown since the drought of the 70s.
To: Theodore R.
West Texas might REALLY be drying up and blowing away NOW, I don't know . . . but I've been hearing the same song since 1963. I wish they'd turn the record over.
3 posted on
04/24/2003 6:14:11 AM PDT by
geedee
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right..)
To: Theodore R.
Well, at least he didn't go on about flouride in the water...
4 posted on
04/24/2003 7:13:06 AM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~Remember, it's not sporting to fire at RINO until charging~)
To: Theodore R.
T. Boone Pickens, of petroleum fame, has formed a company to pump water from west Texas and trundle it elsewhere for sale.
Since the aquifer is mostly of one piece, this means what comes out from beneath his property is refilled by what is under the property of others. He intends to make a megafortune selling what isn't his, to the detriment of the entire region.
It is like voting a town dry, then moving.
5 posted on
04/24/2003 1:27:53 PM PDT by
gcruse
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