Might as well celebrate Halloween with a really frightening post. Las Vegas? Pat Mulroy? 'The Source'?The Delta? Atlanta?
No - really frightening.
Yes, those low-capacity wells threaten to overwhelm Western water managers and others, because, like zombies, there are so many of them, they keep coming, and they can't be killed.
What with Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize for her work on common-pool resources, it was appropriate that someone should conflate exempt wells and CPRs. Rob Emanuel over at H2ONCoast did that quite nicely with this post.
Cally Carswell wrote a piece in the the High Country News with the wonderful title, "Death by a thousand wells".
Both Cally and Rob focus on the PNW, although Cally discusses other areas in the West.
This is a problem that's going to get worse before it gets better.
"We're going to have a water war. You can just see the knives are sharpening." -- Rachael Paschal Osborn, executive director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy, referring to the exempt well issue in Washington
When I was about 8 or 9 I was traumatized by watching this black and white (I think) horror movie. All I remember was a kid that looked like Alfalfa from "our gang" and a well. I would love to know what movie this is. It had to have come out before 1979 or so. Anybody know what it could be?
Posted by: GiGi | Tuesday, 23 March 2010 at 12:25 PM