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China's miracle in the desert is drying up
NYT ^ | 05/27/05 | Jim Yardley

Posted on 05/28/2005 5:56:03 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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1 posted on 05/28/2005 5:56:03 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; maui_hawaii; tallhappy; Dr. Marten; Jeff Head; Khurkris; hedgetrimmer; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 05/28/2005 5:56:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Toooooo many people.


3 posted on 05/28/2005 5:58:25 AM PDT by cynicom
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"The problem is the human impact. People are overusing the amount of water that the area can sustain."

Don't look at us, we gave at the office.

Signed,
Northern California

4 posted on 05/28/2005 6:04:32 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"As local people, we are very worried," said Fan Cun, the head of the agency that oversees the lake. "We would have failed future generations if we watch this lake disappear."

An oft repeated lament.
5 posted on 05/28/2005 6:10:10 AM PDT by Captain Rhino ("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
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To: RGSpincich
Re #4

They should look at Colorado.:-)

6 posted on 05/28/2005 6:11:29 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Here in Michigan we've got more fresh water than the middle east has oil. Hehehe...


7 posted on 05/28/2005 6:11:52 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: RGSpincich

Northern Calif. where the feather river has been hijacked and sent south to fulfill the thirsty wasteful water habits of L.A.


8 posted on 05/28/2005 6:13:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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Yeah, you will never run of water or ice.:-)

9 posted on 05/28/2005 6:15:26 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Should have asked a rancher about 'carrying capacity' before they jumped off the cliff with expansion plans. And, I wonder if tourists are demanding flush toilets...


10 posted on 05/28/2005 6:16:40 AM PDT by elli1
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Yep, that could be one heck of a bucket brigade.


11 posted on 05/28/2005 6:17:53 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: RGSpincich

It is helpful in such times to remember that the earth is not depleted of even a drop of water. It is simply moved around, as is the nature of water.
As we develop means for moving water over greater distances we will meet the demands we have for nature to supply us her unlimited bounty.
While I am on the subject, population growth can only increase as a factor of the ability of the system to create and nurture new life. Clearly we have not begun to approach any such limitations on our procreation. In point of fact world population is declining as a function of self-control and of disease related to our inability to mobilize resources to needed areas.
We are not running out of resources. We simply have not yet learned to fully mobilize the resources available to us.


12 posted on 05/28/2005 6:31:43 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE)
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To: cynicom
Toooooo many people.

Indiscriminate killing is the only answer.

Preferably, with chainsaws.

13 posted on 05/28/2005 6:33:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
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To: cynicom

"Toooooo many people."


Some geniuses don't think there is such a thing as too many people. Even on this forum some enjoy explaining how there is plenty of land to support ten times the current world population. I don't buy it myself, even if people can live at such density I wouldn't want to.


14 posted on 05/28/2005 6:34:27 AM PDT by RipSawyer ("Embed" Michael Moore with the 82nd airborne.)
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"The problem is the human impact. People are overusing the amount of water that the area can sustain."

Naaaah, global warming, all Bush's fault.


15 posted on 05/28/2005 6:36:53 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Amos the Prophet

Well said. Some might choose to argue with truth. I'm not some.


16 posted on 05/28/2005 6:37:07 AM PDT by wita (truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
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To: Joe Boucher

"Northern Calif. where the feather river has been hijacked and sent south to fulfill the thirsty wasteful water habits of L.A."

California agriculture uses more water than all the cities in Southern California. We grow rice in the middle of the desert (flooding fields with water). We grow cotton, another heavy water user. If that water were diverted to cities, there would be a water surplus in California for generations.


17 posted on 05/28/2005 6:37:08 AM PDT by labard1
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Such a density will turn many into psychos, while a majority of them will become neurotic.

Having private living space would be next to impossible.

18 posted on 05/28/2005 6:38:00 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Is this like the Russian lake that disappeared a couple of weeks ago? Many of the local people there say we did it, the lake was stolen by the United States, and it was a "Bush trick".
19 posted on 05/28/2005 6:39:27 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: labard1

But where would their food and cotton come from?


20 posted on 05/28/2005 6:41:20 AM PDT by NorseWood
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