We recently got an e-mail tip from a reader, who will not be named, and for reasons that will soon be obvious. It read: 'Golf courses and water parks perpetuate the illusion that there's NO
We recently got an e-mail tip from a reader, who will not be named, and for reasons that will soon be obvious. It read: “Golf courses and water parks perpetuate the illusion that there’s NO water shortage. sHut them all!”, our fat-fingered friend does make a good point that’s worth addressing.You see, there are two kinds of places: There are places with too much water, and there are places that seem to almost always have too little water. The southwest is one of the latter.
Getting so much water from the Mississippi River and transporting it to Colorado isn’t as simple as it sounds. In terms of distance, quantities of water, and terrain, this venture would dwarf all previous efforts. It would create a project that goes down in history as an engineering marvel. Financing all of the construction and then operations financing would be impossible.
For one, people need to drink water. Wasting it on lawns, washing cars, and in some cases, swimming pools isn’t a good idea because we’d run out of drinking water. There’s also the problem of used food not being palatable or safe to eat, so we need to put enough water to agriculture to keep the new food coming.
This is where we get back to the reader’s point. If the city is making it too expensive to keep your well-manicured lawn and you’re thinking of putting in composting toilets to keep the water bill from eating too much of your household budget, it’s hard to not feel some resentment toward the golf course up the street and the water park across town.
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