three words - where's the water?
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6/11/2007
All the problems stem from the idiots who decided to build a mini-LA in the middle of the Mohave Desert. Water issues will stop the growth shortly.
I strongly feel that the population has peeked now, and may even shrink a
bit after the real estate market works the trough out of its system.
The desert terrain is not built for draining, as there is no soil for absorption. Not built for growing crops of any kind. Not even particularly
kind to builders, as you hit rock immediately(when was the last basement you saw in a Phoenix residence)? It was sheer greed that made the developers want
to grow a city without the proper carrying capacity in the first-place, not to mention the valley bowl-shape that keeps pollution hovering 24/7, with
a consistency and look much like what I saw pouring out of the smokestacks
of the steel mills as a child on the southside of Chicago. Just a brown,
putrid haze, full of lovely heavy metal particulates just waiting to slice into lungs like fiberglass over a protracted period of time.
Again, all I ask is, "Where's the water"?.....well?.....
scott | South Holland, IL