🚀 go-pugleaf

Hetch Hetchy would be a good example ofNorthen California's "better 
concept of how to use its water fairly". Urbanites north and south use mostly
water that is transported from outside city limits. In Los Angeles we spend 1
billion dollars a year for water. When it rains we let it rush quickly to the
ocean. If we were to capture that water for irrigation we could reduce our
demand for water by one third. Today the LA County Board of Supervisors
approved the EIR that paves the way to raising the walls of the LA River to
contain a hundred year flood. There goes another billion dollars worth of
cement. We could have taken a look at what is causing this increasing
flow:lots of new tarmac, no water retention cisterns and atrophied ground
table recharge systems. When are we going to start managing our urban
ecosystems north and south as integrated wholes. Jeff
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