Water Everywhere, and There’s Still a Drought?
Re “Deluge No Promise of End to Drought,” Jan. 11: We have, finally, a badly needed rain, but most of the water it brings is wasted because “downpours in Southern California don’t help fill the reservoirs that supply the region’s water, which are hundreds of miles away.” While millions of gallons per minute are pouring into the Pacific Ocean, all that Bob Muir of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has to say about this waste is that “we always have to look hundreds of miles away to see what the true impact is” because “something that is running through Southern California ... doesn’t mean gold for our water supply future in Northern California and the Colorado River.”
Water reservoirs need to be built where the rain is raining. Ambitious plans of costly desalinization or importation of water, or blaming shortages on drought, may divert public attention from culpable waste of water right here in the Southland but will not substitute for this simple, common-sense measure.
Marek A. Suchenek
Yorba Linda
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After the tsunami, quakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, rain and loss of thousands upon thousands of innocent lives, this is intelligent design?
Patrick O’Brien
San Juan Capistrano
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