Bluehair
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Well, we are fixin to run out of irrigation water here next month. From the looks of things, it’s happening in a lot of other places.
So I thought this Utah-centric article was fun. The question it never gets around to answering is whether we are going to do something about “climate change” (which has been going on since day 1), or just sit here and die of thirst.
Anyway, besides the observation that destroying the agricultural sector really hasn’t done much to save the fish, this is my favorite quote:
“Droughts are nature’s fault, they happen; water shortages, that’s our fault,” said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif. “They are a choice we made when we stopped building dams and reservoirs. ... We are not going to solve our water shortages until we build new facilities. We are a special kind of stupid.”
So I thought this Utah-centric article was fun. The question it never gets around to answering is whether we are going to do something about “climate change” (which has been going on since day 1), or just sit here and die of thirst.
Anyway, besides the observation that destroying the agricultural sector really hasn’t done much to save the fish, this is my favorite quote:
“Droughts are nature’s fault, they happen; water shortages, that’s our fault,” said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif. “They are a choice we made when we stopped building dams and reservoirs. ... We are not going to solve our water shortages until we build new facilities. We are a special kind of stupid.”
One congressman says ‘we are a special kind of stupid’ when it comes to drought
Some GOP members of Congress say the ‘unprecedented’ drought facing the West is not so much about water supply, but water policy. Even so, Utah Gov, Spencer Cox says residents should expect water restrictions and future policies to curtail use of the finite resource.
www.deseret.com