Posted on 11/05/2007 5:31:49 PM PST by Lorianne
Atlanta’s infrastructure has been in dire need of improvement for years, (and everyone in Atlanta has known about it) but the pols would rather spend money on “fun stuff” to get them reelected, rather than fix the city’s sewers and water lines.
the environmental whackos are going to use this to stop all development, and the GOP is going along with them.
This is far more than an environwhacko issue. The city of Atlanta is sadly unprepared for this drought. The growth here has been ridiculously uncontrolled. It is a big mess, and something has to be done, or the city may run out of water. The GOP doesn’t have a choice.
The first course of action was to try and force the corps of engineers to change their water policies. I haven’t heard anything about stopping development. The development has slowed substantially in the last year because new houses are being built but not sold, but it isn’t about the water.
Which ones?
Desalination would be very expensive, especially the startup costs and the building of pipelines. Maybe that's not necessary. Maybe just adding more reservoirs and better conservation practices will do the trick. Right now, given the fact of so little rain, a hundred more reservoirs would be sitting dry with no inflow. The idea of desalination from the sea at least will never go dry. Heck, according to Algore, the sea will be coming closer to Atlanta soon. Maybe we'd better build the plant at Macon ;)
More like: at some point supply-and-demand will cause water prices to rise to the point that people will have to choose between buying expensive water and moving elsewhere to buy cheaper water, and/or market forces will discover other means of obtaining what is needed.
The wonderful thing about capitalism is that the market is self-correcting.
The terrible thing about socialism is people think they can correct a market, and instead usually just screw it up.
Ultimately, the problem will resolve. Of course, news reports don’t say much about what people are already doing to resolve the problem on an individual level.
And as for Algore: if there were more hurricanes, we’d get more water - and if there was “global warming”, he says we’d get more hurricanes. A pity there isn’t any “global warming”.
Agreed.
While it is easy to blame the water policies that everyone agreed to years ago when building the dam (We guarantee you X amount of water!), this problem is Atlanta’s alone. Short sighted policies are to blame here, not the folks downstream.
I feel for the gentle folk of Atlanta, but they were failed by their leaders, who should have taken more drastic steps to curb water before now, stopped growth, and institute a plan to remedy this going forward, so it will not happen again.
Yes, please, get rid of the people so the mussels can survive, after all they are much more important. >S<
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