[ale] Water Levels & Corps of NON Engineers.

[Jim Philips]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 12:02:49 Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:51 +0000, deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:
> > The real problem is that water is basicly a 'free good': as a result,
> > there is no drive to conserve it and efforts to do so drive up the
> > costs, not lower them. If you want to see water conserved, raise the
> > price even to a penny a gallon -- everybody will get religion on the
> > subject then.
>
> Hah!  Gas is above $3/gal and still in peak demand.......
>
> The problem with Water levels (and most everything else these days) is
> POLITICS!  At the core of Political Problems is incompetent
> politicos.... because SMART and COMPETENT people avoid getting involved
> with POLITICS!
>
> -Jim P.

And when you have an issue that affects the health and comfort of millions of people, how would you resolve it without "POLITICS"? Have a wise tsar decide the whole thing by fiat?
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