[BostonCard]

The entire "California Dream" is based on the un-natural distribution of water, the damming of various rivers (Colorado, Owens, Feather, Hetch-Hetchy) and the use of aqueducts to support not just farming but massive amounts of population, far beyond numbers that would be sustainable by natural amounts of local rainfall.  Draughts are also a regular part of California's weather pattern, as all of us who are California-born know.  (Though I'm quite willing to accept that global warming may be contributing to making the latest draught worse.)  What used to be primarily a North/South struggle over water is now as much a Agriculture/Urban center struggle. But really, water shortage is just something Californians have to deal with (or live in denial about, depending upon how much moisture a particular rainy season brings).

Eventually, this drought will end.  If it doesn't, really one of the last things I will be worrying about is whether an 18-year old football player is somehow put-off by browning lawns around Stanford.

Well, the entire Boston dream is based on the unnatural distribution of heat, right?  And someday this winter will end.

BC

[BostonCard]

The entire "California Dream" is based on the un-natural distribution of water, the damming of various rivers (Colorado, Owens, Feather, Hetch-Hetchy) and the use of aqueducts to support not just farming but massive amounts of population, far beyond numbers that would be sustainable by natural amounts of local rainfall.  Draughts are also a regular part of California's weather pattern, as all of us who are California-born know.  (Though I'm quite willing to accept that global warming may be contributing to making the latest draught worse.)  What used to be primarily a North/South struggle over water is now as much a Agriculture/Urban center struggle. But really, water shortage is just something Californians have to deal with (or live in denial about, depending upon how much moisture a particular rainy season brings).

Eventually, this drought will end.  If it doesn't, really one of the last things I will be worrying about is whether an 18-year old football player is somehow put-off by browning lawns around Stanford.

Well, the entire Boston dream is based on the unnatural distribution of heat, right?  And someday this winter will end.

BC