<OT>We are going to be in trouble

[Robert Hemus]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 07:44, Tony Alfrey wrote: 
> Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:43 am, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > 
> >>Jerry McBride wrote:
> >>
> >>
>   For example, in 
> California (essentially a desert) <snip>
I don't know if they are growing rice east of the Sierra, but where they
grow it in the Central Valley, where I think the majority of the rice is
grown, was a swamp before the white farmers, miners, and developers
started in on it was a huge swamp.

we pour a lot of water into the sand 
> to grow rice and cotton.  So it would be useful to have an equivalent 
> replacement value if that water were to be generated by desalinization. 
>   And some places in CA have considered building such things to augment 
> weak local water supplies (Santa Barbara on the coast I believe 
> considered such a device).

Bob