http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/peter-gleick-an-eastern-judge-points-the-way-to-solving-western-water-problems/ Reporting the Global Water Crisis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:22:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2009/world/peter-gleick-an-eastern-judge-points-the-way-to-solving-western-water-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-6054 Thomas Slaback Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:36:33 +0000 http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/?p=4351#comment-6054 This is only a symptom of the greater disease. Too many people. We have been fortunate in the past that our population in the US was not like that of the rest of the world. We are catching up. If we continue water use as in the past and do not check our population growth, we will run out of water. Our local, water rustler, politiians say that without growth we will die. In reality, if we continue to grow at the average rate of the last dozen years, we will literally turn to dust and be blown away. This is only a symptom of the greater disease. Too many people. We have been fortunate in the past that our population in the US was not like that of the rest of the world. We are catching up. If we continue water use as in the past and do not check our population growth, we will run out of water. Our local, water rustler, politiians say that without growth we will die. In reality, if we continue to grow at the average rate of the last dozen years, we will literally turn to dust and be blown away.

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