tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912640518439940624.post5152070193001877727..comments2023-03-25T02:06:46.508-06:00Comments on Travels with Charley: It isn't nice to waste waterJBinford-Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14293248281473648182noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912640518439940624.post-83024883821238384982010-07-26T17:33:52.428-06:002010-07-26T17:33:52.428-06:00I remember when my step-mother lived in Fallon. S...I remember when my step-mother lived in Fallon. She would run her sprinkler all day and often all night just to get her little tiny postage stamp lawn green. I could understand why she wanted green grass (she was from Washington State) but it just seemed so wasteful.<br /><br />The two big things I took from Fallon though were 1) watching a lady let her icecream and frozen goods melt while she played slots at the grocery store and 2) seeing so many lawn sprinklers running while the irrigation ditches were nearly all dry. Yeah I wanted a pretty lawn and pretty flowers in Kansas but NOT at the expense of my pasture or livestock.<br /><br />Excellent topic :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13289643251332322372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912640518439940624.post-88306503384765676892010-07-20T06:49:14.019-06:002010-07-20T06:49:14.019-06:00It is the space issue. Most of us are descended fr...It is the space issue. Most of us are descended from Europeans who were crowded into prisons and towns and were totally overwhelmed at the open space in this country.<br /><br />Give me room, cried Daniel Boone when he headed west. It had gotten too crowded east of the Blue Ridge. There has always been historically someplace to move too. Even now there are huge unpopulated tracts of land and nobody stops to consider what happens if you subdivide it.<br /><br />And for years landowners did. People brought 5,10, and 10 acre lots out west and all was fine because nobody built on it. Now they are building. Phoenix cannot guarantee you will have water a year after you buy a new house. How sad is that?<br /><br />And Texans after over-grazing their state moved cattle here summers and over grazed it. Short sighted humans base their actions on the weather that moment. It is so possible in the west to build by a river one summer that isn't there the next or the next. <br /><br />We do not have a national law on water use because of states rights (remember the civil war). New Mexico is one of the few states will laws governing intrabasin water transfers. Texas is just waking up to the fact that the aquifer below their state is not inexhaustible. <br /><br />And nobody has quite gotten the connection between water and electricity. We built these dams that generate power for Los Angeles and Las Vegas but they do that only if there is water to release and a drought or even over usage of water and there is also no electricity.<br /><br />Not only do we need to turn off the fountains. We need to turn off the lightsJBinford-Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293248281473648182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912640518439940624.post-29388908736173800182010-07-20T05:42:17.125-06:002010-07-20T05:42:17.125-06:00Thank you for this! I came here via Bee`s Blog and...Thank you for this! I came here via Bee`s Blog and am happy to read that there ARE American citizens (I am a German, having spent a year in your country long ago, still feeling connected) who shake their heads at this incredible waste. Like about ALL Europeans do...Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484336744673299416noreply@blogger.com