[grundle]

Despite real world events such as what's reported in this article, there are still plenty of people on the radical left who insist that we are running out of water, and that we need totalitarian measures such as laws that make it illegal to water your lawn, wash your car, and fill your swimming pool, and which outlaw 3.5 gallon toilets, and which force people to spy on their neighbors and report any of these activities to the police. I thought I'd post this article so you can show it to anyoone you know who still holds these views.

[ovrtaxt]

I was talking to this lady in Odessa, a rural town in the north end of the bay area, where numerous wellfields keep the lakes at unnaturally low levels. She was complaining about the growing population around the city, railing on new development, and generally complaining about everything she could think of. When she got to the subject of groundwater, I mentioned the desalination plant. She immediately attacked that idea on the basis of seawater salinity in the bay.

This awful, bitter broad is typical of the enviro whiners. Nothing makes them happy. There are no solutions short of reverting back to a caveman existence. I think the plant will prove to be a blessing.

[Savage Beast]

The totalitarian Left will not be swayed by intelligent arguments or appeals to justice, kindness, or basic human decency. Their agenda is control--control for its own sake.

“A totalitarian mind hates ambiguity. It loves black and white.”

~Nafisi, Azar, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.

"Liberals"--the Left--hate freedom.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I find it surprising that our water restrictions here in the metro Atlanta region are still in place even though we've had above average rainfall for a year and a half now.

Matter of fact, we surpassed the record rainfall amount for May and suffered through some flooding. The Chattahoochie and all it's tributaries are high. Yet the draconian watering restrictions are still in place.

[Straight Vermonter]

You miss the left's real issue. They would like everyone to follow their example and avoid showering.

[RJayneJ]

Quote of the Day by Brainhose

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The highly salty byproduct will flow into the Big Bend power plant's cooling water canal, where it will be diluted in the 1.4 billion gallons the canal carries each day.

It is this byproduct that has caused the most concern for some area residents, although Luther led a study in 2000 that found the briny waste would not cause any long-term increases in salinity.

People just don't get it. Most of seawater. Should we put big sheets over the oceans to keep sea water from evaporating? Desalinization isn't that much different. Both routes have fresh water being extracted from sea waterof the fresh water in rainfall is produced by evaporation.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

The plant has become operational despite concerns from some area residents that it will increase salinity in Tampa Bay and reduce oxygen in the water.

Ok, I'm not an environmental OceanSaltOlogist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and know that evaporation sucks millions of gallons of H20 from the bay each day. Have the fished died because of that? Of course not, it all balances out, just like everything in nature tends to do. Idiots.

[GOPJ]

It cost twice as much to produce and taste awful. What liberal group is pushing bottled water? We had a dry spell and it's over now. Millions of gallons of fresh water drain into the Gulf of Mexico every day. Something smells fishy here and it's not the water...

The plant has become operational despite concerns from some area residents that it will increase salinity in Tampa Bay and reduce oxygen in the water.

[GOPJ]

It cost twice as much to produce and taste awful. What liberal group is pushing bottled water? We had a dry spell and it's over now. Millions of gallons of fresh water drain into the Gulf of Mexico every day. Something smells fishy here and it's not the water...

The plant has become operational despite concerns from some area residents that it will increase salinity in Tampa Bay and reduce oxygen in the water.