Posted by RMinVa on June 10, 2011 at 21:18:51 from (67.142.166.27):
In Reply to: water shortages posted by lyle niemi on June 10, 2011 at 20:08:13:
I've never been out west but can tell you the water shortage is real. We just went through 10 out of 12 years of drought up the east coast and inland past the the blue ridge mountains. In 2006 we had 2 river dry up and lots of small streams didn't run for years. I live in central Va. and we have a pipe line from Lake Gaston to the east coast to supply water to them. About 600,000 gal. a day.
Water is the next boom like oil is now. Very quietly folks from other states as well as our own are buying all the water rights that are for sale. Water will be sold in the future like a commodity.
And yes it gets political but not the way you may think. When water is being pumped across state lines to supply large cities the fight begins and runs for years. It's a matter of who gets water and from where. The highway I live on up until the early 80's no well was deeper than 130ft. Now none are less than 300 ft. Then when the deeper wells are drilled you sometimes see 3-4 homes near that had good wells go dry all at the same time.
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