Water, Water Everywhere

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 I have been following the Southwestern US water crisis very closely now since the last six months or so.  Lakes Mead and Powell seem to have not been affected much by the recent rains, but many California reservoirs are filled to capacity.  Some are saying the drought in the Southwest has ended, but most water experts are more cautious.  It has been drought conditions for nearly twenty years and one year out the last twenty make them optimistic, but cautious.  

There are communities in Arizona where water supplies have dried up and residents are in search of solutions to their water problems.  Part of the problem is that Arabic countries are using aquifer water to water alfalfa crops to feed cattle that are being raised in those countries.  The US gets no benefit from either the alfalfa or the cattle, but it is legal for them to do so according to Arizona laws and water rights.  

I remember it being said that water will become the new oil.  Today our pool is low on water and I am topping it off again today.  Low humidity and moderate temperatures cause the water to evaporate and when the pool is low the pump gurgles.  It takes a few hundred gallons to top off the pool every several days, but it must be done to prevent the pool pump from prematurely wearing out.  We have plenty of fresh water here in SW Florida and still water is relatively cheap here.

I am smoking what I call my newest Nording pipe with Barbados Plantation.  I think this tobacco has a rather pleasant aroma although some might say it is more of an English Aromatic.  It might not be as flavorful as I expected and I am not sure I will order it again.  This is also true of Until the End.  I thought that might have been better than it was, and my wife didn't like the aroma of that at all.  I like to stay with my favorites, but once I order something I feel compelled to finish it until it is gone.  I am letting my Good Stuff age some with a little more Burley thrown in.  I'll go back to that in a few months.  

Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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