March 02, 2012
Savings and Loss
A few months ago I heard a presentation from Colorado Supreme Court
Justice Gregory Hobbs, a water court judge. He noted that conserving water on
the western slope really doesn’t help Colorado, but rather benefits communities
downstream, like San Diego. The aquifer,
a water-bearing layer of rock, sand or gravel that absorbs water, needs to be
replenished, but in our efforts to save water by lining irrigation ditches, we
are actually keeping the water from going into the local aquifer. On a
spiritual level Jesus has a similar thought, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his
life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:24 NIV)
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Gail;
-----I think it would be greatly educational to peer into the details of history and see who’s been behind this “save the water” panic. I am far from an expert on the matter, but I do know two things for certain. I remember California publicly crying like babies on several occasions because the Colorado River was soaking into the desert sands before it ever reached them. Yes, there were pictures and everything - video of water soaking into sun-cracked, crusty dirt. I never completely doubted the possibility.
-----The other thing I know for certain is that liberals, lefties, Progressives, whatever you would like to call them are, well, as they like to say, pragmatic. That is a short way of saying they will do or say anything it takes to achieve their objectives. This is a nicer way of saying they are lying weasels. They are so good at it that they have successfully convinced the public that conservatives are monkeys. And that’s why our current politics are nothing more than monkeys chasing weasels around and around Mulberry bushes. The liberals set the agenda while the conservatives are too scarred to expose the deceit of that agenda, so they are doomed to do nothing but follow. That’s why all the farmers had to cement their irrigation ditches before the liberal tune changed to how much water soaked into the fields.
-----I’ve always half laughed at the “save the water” panic. God makes it rain every year, even though less in some years than in others. Nothing we do with the water as it passes through Colorado annihilates it or changes it into something else, like glass, or helium, or something. I know some of our water gets caught up in the bodies of the livestock and produce grown here, then is shipped off to wherever. But it is still water. And it gets turned loose there in wherever (but this doesn’t do California any good.) Like you’ve mentioned, it goes into the aquifer, and into the air, too, but most of it does go into the rivers where it will eventually soak into the desert sands just before it crosses that last border West. And that is half sad.
-----But then again, do you know how much ocean water a nuclear power plant could desalinate? Oh, yes, that’s right - the green-weanies won’t allow any of those either. Oh well, they can go lick the desert sand, then.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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