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- From: Ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk (Charles Ashley)
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- Subject: aqua Santa Barbara
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:43:25 +0000
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- In article <1gbkvpINNsf3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> you write:
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- >
- >>>Why don't we just cut it off at the southern border of Santa Barbara County?
- >>>We get really tired of you LA people stealing our water all the time... :)
- >>
- >>Where does Santa Barbara get its water?
- >>
- >>--
- >>Rafael Romo romo@netcom.com ---
- >
- >Santa Barbara, i just learned, takes care of itself when it comes to water.
- >This includes its own resoviour and a desaltnation plant.
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-
- That's why SB has suffered the most in the recent drought. Rationing was
- polically correct, and carried huge fines for the decadant, since one of
- those lakes went dry a few years ago, the other was down to about 20%
- capacity. That's when the City decided to give up on the idea of towing
- iceburgs from Alaska and put up the cash to build a desalination plant
- (1990).
-
- The latest I've heard is that the desalination plant won't be online for
- another year or so. But the rains over the last season did fill up one
- of the resevoirs. :-}
-
- Santa Barbara has _never_ had state water, and most likely never will.
- Who wants to to be responsible to Sacramento over water? They don't
- have it anyway.
-
- Charles
- (A emigrant Santa Barbaran who moved to England to take a shower...)
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