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Why comfy living in the Southwest will soon be history

Posted by: Maven on August 14, 2009 at 10:52 pm

From AlterNet:

“It is likely to be a source of unhappiness for us that we have taken natural bounty for granted in designing our civilization. But it is likely to prove tragic that we have assumed not only the indestructibility of nature (heck, some fossils still argue that climate change is impossible because it is not within human abilities to wreck the climate), but also that the particularly beneficial circumstances of the 20th century are what is ecologically “normal.” Nowhere is this more evident than in arid regions, and nowhere is it better studied than in the American Southwest.

There, in the deserts and mountains, we Americans have built huge cities, farms and ranches, and one of the world’s leading tourism industries (think Vegas) predicated on the reliability of cheap, plentiful water. This was a mistake. Water in the very near future will be neither cheap nor plentiful, and much of the Southwest is destined for real trouble. …”

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August 14, 2009 · Filed Under Colorado River & the Southwest

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One Response to “Why comfy living in the Southwest will soon be history”

  1. WaterSource on August 16th, 2009 7:52 am

    Another article of more regurgitation that there is no solution for Lake Mead and the Colorado River.

    A new fresh water Supply of a million acre feet EACH YEAR is available that could be developed to keep Lake Mead ( 28.5 million acre feet) FULL !

    Development of the Source will not damage the environment or the water rights of anyone, anywhere.

    Is there is a water attorney who would be willing to receive a FREE complete confidential disclosure of the Source and be willing to give an opinion to Aguafornia readers as to the validity of the various claimed aspects of the Source ?

    WaterSource/WaterBank waterrdw@yahoo.com

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