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- From: CSMSETS@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (CSMSETS)
- Subject: Re: aqua Santa Barbara
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 12:08:25 PST
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- In article <725656242snz@chaz.demon.co.uk>, on 29 Dec 1992 18:43:25 +0000,
- Ashley@chaz.demon.co.uk (Charles Ashley) writes:
-
- >
- >
- >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.
-
- The desalination plat is ready to go but is off line because they don't
- need it right now (water from there costs about 10 times that of their
- lake water). The reason S.B. doesn't use state water is because this
- would cause the local government to lose control over the growth in
- the area. S.B. city is forcing UCSB to spend (I think) $2 million +
- on a pipeline from the campus to a local swamp to pump recycled water
- back into the water table so the UC can expand its campus. I think this
- is a resonable thing to do to the UC and to businesses but they are
- totally ignoring the 'farmers' that are wasting water on avicado
- trees (where they aren't harvesting the avicados) so when the price
- goes up enough on their land they can sell it off to a developer,
- show the city the water bills (at agricultural prices) and claim that
- 400 people living here would use oh so much LESS water! Its all
- Bull Sh*T pollitics to me.
-
- I think the best description of pollitics was given by a comedian,
- if you break words up you can get their reall meanings -
- Pollitics - polli (polly) = many, tics (ticks) = small blood sucking
- insects.....
-
- Thats my two bits,
- --Ed
-