Editorial Letter Water Management
Sending this to my local paper. 142 words - well within parameters of most papers...
To Whom It May Concern:
Our nation is running out of potable water. Rivers are failing to reach the ocean. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Aquifers are drying up. Locally, streams run dry annually - unheard of in our parents’ youth.
Overuse, single-use, and rapid runoff are all to blame. Each can be remedied if people know how and why. The news media, meteorologists specifically, must increase their role to educate and not just pontificate.
Redefine drought to include more variables than precipitation. Explain impervious ground cover and ways to lessen its impact. Teach proper irrigation (including NO irrigation) to the entire community. Introduce reuse (greywater) for many water needs.
Our children will see the day when water is sold on the world market much as oil is today. It is already happening in the Plain States and South West.
Let’s change that starting here and now.
Sincerely,
Resources
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Out/ch6_water.pdfhttp://narsal.ecology.uga.edu/atl_landcover/landcover.html
To Whom It May Concern:
Our nation is running out of potable water. Rivers are failing to reach the ocean. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Aquifers are drying up. Locally, streams run dry annually - unheard of in our parents’ youth.
Overuse, single-use, and rapid runoff are all to blame. Each can be remedied if people know how and why. The news media, meteorologists specifically, must increase their role to educate and not just pontificate.
Redefine drought to include more variables than precipitation. Explain impervious ground cover and ways to lessen its impact. Teach proper irrigation (including NO irrigation) to the entire community. Introduce reuse (greywater) for many water needs.
Our children will see the day when water is sold on the world market much as oil is today. It is already happening in the Plain States and South West.
Let’s change that starting here and now.
Sincerely,
Resources
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/Out/ch6_water.pdfhttp://narsal.ecology.uga.edu/atl_landcover/landcover.html
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