On Sep 19, 9:06 am, Chris Barnes wrote:
chatnoir wrote:
It is not remote or confusing! You imply since you have 3 rivers near
you, you are not depleting the aquifer! In fact that was always the
attitude in Colorado! If they drill near the river, they get all the
water they want! In fact, they are draining the river illegally and
violating numerous river compacts! People living near rivers in
Colorado often drop pimps in the river and use it to irrigate even
though all the water in the river isallocated and they don't have any
nallovation! So, I think saying you kive near so and so rivers makes
it very relevant!

Being shrill does your cause no good. Every sentence you wrote ended
with an exclamation point (!). That tends to make you sound like a
lunatic, where people won't take you seriously.

You will notice I always do that!



Conserving water is a concern in some areas (CO is probably one of
them), but it isn't everywhere. Where I live, we get ~40" of rain per
year - what we don't use ends up in the Gulf of Mexico. I plan on
putting in a water well w/ a 55gpm pump.

Try putting in Columbia River and Salmon in search engines and you
will see there is a problem there!



Fwiw, I believe cities need to begin investing in their own desalination
plants and piping in their fresh water from the oceans. The days of
entire cities pulling water from rivers needs to come to a screeching
end. But that's a thread for another newsgroup...

Most salt comes from ag practices! Forinstance in Colorado you had to
use all your allocated water in traditional manners or lose it! So
farmers would flood their fields and leach out the salt which went
into the rivers!