06-11-2004, 09:49 PM
addicted -- things may be different in SL with the canal, but I know that water is a precious thing. People do not want to let water slip past them, and have the next guy down be able to use "their" water. It happens all the time. I have relatives in Garfield county. If you only knew how many times I have heard "I am not going to let some bastard from Delta get my water!"
It makes me sick to drive past alfalfa fields and pastures that are a muddy swamp this time of year, in the middle of our 6th year of drought. What is the purpose of flooding a field? I understand watering, and I have no problems with them using what water they need. I have big problems with them using up everything for the sake of not letting the next guy get "theirs". If it's raining, is it really necessary to have the sprinklers running?
FYI -- the water that hits the Great Salt Lake is not wasted....maybe from an agricutlural, or culinary standpoint it is, but not over all. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. It merely changes forms.
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It makes me sick to drive past alfalfa fields and pastures that are a muddy swamp this time of year, in the middle of our 6th year of drought. What is the purpose of flooding a field? I understand watering, and I have no problems with them using what water they need. I have big problems with them using up everything for the sake of not letting the next guy get "theirs". If it's raining, is it really necessary to have the sprinklers running?
FYI -- the water that hits the Great Salt Lake is not wasted....maybe from an agricutlural, or culinary standpoint it is, but not over all. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. It merely changes forms.
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