Posted on 04/14/2014 12:18:05 PM PDT by topher
UBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Wichita Falls is so far behind on rainfall that city leaders are asking state regulators for permission to use treated toilet flushes as drinking water.
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More government subsidies are not a good answer.
Pretty ironic from a town that has a fake fresh water waterfall to match its name.
I worked a construction job with my pop when I was teenager in the early 90’s.
There was quite a few tomotoe plants growing around the water plant.
My dad told me it was the seeds picked up by seagulls or blown by wind from the processing pools.
I don’t know if he was messing with me @ the time, but it sounded reasonable.
Llama
Texas has a dry line that starts in East Texas and starts to phase out around Dallas. There, you can see the rich trees. Move west, and by the time you get to west Fort Worth 60 miles away, it is scrubland and dry savannah.
Part of the water shortage is supply - the area had two natural lakes plus the Trinity River 50 years ago. They’ve built a bunch of artificial lakes, but environmentalists stopped several projects to the south and east in the name of wildlife 20 years ago. Now, no new water supply is built but population is still growing.
We had enough water for three million - now there are six million. We can’t build new lakes, we can’t build pipelines to bring it down from Oklahoma, we aren’t allowed to send illegals home and ask others to stop moving in.
On the upside, around a third of the water is used in irrigating laws. Get people to rip out the pretty green laws that work on the East Coast but are water hogs in a dry area formerly known as the Great Desert, we’d have margin. Stop planting all these trees to look like home and mimic Arizona’s xeriscaping, and you have more water for people. Limiting the installation of swimming pools would help.
Recycling waste water for irrigation and, after lots of filtering, people could probably use it. But that shouldn’t be necessary yet.
I want to rip out my horrible weed infested lawn in North Fort Worth. On a recent trip to Canberra, Australia, which has a similar climate to North Texas, I was impressed by their lack of lawns. Instead they had all different colored gravel with small gardens and rose bushes. It was beautiful and the small flower gardens require much less water.
The criminal invaders from Mexico are notorious for recklessly wasting water. During the summer of 2011 drought, a Mexican a few doors down was running a miniature waterspray park for his little ninos and ninas nearly every day. I went down and, shall we say, had a little "talk" with him and set him straight. No more problems from that guy but I'm keeping a careful eye on him and he knows it!
Who pays their water bill?
As many people living in that house -- typical of Mexicans as Reggie White so correctly pointed out -- my guess is that the "extended" family chip in. That, of course, presumes they even pay it at all. Overall, they just impress me as the deadbeat type.
I know the type
And, sadly, they're legal. In fact the guy is a fourth generation Texan, speaks English just fine but always has that abrasive Mexican music playing when I pass by his house. It's another reason why I favor selective immigration and why merely having citizenship papers isn't sufficient to be a real American. And his kids constantly are on skateboards tearing up the sidewalk.
Pull out a dern map...it’s a bit south of Marillo...
If it seems like I’m painting that Mexican fellow in too bad of a light, let me add that during one of our chats (and no, I’m not constantly yelling at him and his kids), he did tell me that voted for Ted Cruz. And more recently, during one of our wide-ranging conversations, he mentioned that he hates Wendy Davis. So, he and his kin do get under my skin in a lot of ways, but he may be redeemable on some things.
That’s good to hear
For 25 billion dollars, Africa could be awash in fresh water. It would create a new global economy, produce massive green areas which could absorb CO2, crops to feed millions and pull millions out of poverty.
There, fixed global warming for under 25 billion. We will spend more than that this year on failed green companies and Obama donors.
The last thing Leftists want is more productive countries, poverty is noble and wealth is evil to them
You misspelled Yewston.
LOL! Silly me, I screwed up again! :)
Just another City that has not stayed with the times and improved the water SYS while using revenue to build a tax base and nothing more. Spend a billion and use eminent domain to build a reservoir. Someone said desalination well WF TX is like 8 to ten hrs to the coast and you’d have to truck it!
Hehehehehehehehe!
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