[joelcolorado]

The PROBLEM will be as we use less oil, gas etc. with smaller cars, there will not be enough taxes generated for road improvements.

Denver had a water conservation program and ppl responded and in ten years cut water useage in half. OF COURSE the water dept went broke so....they doubled the water bills to cover that. So you use less, and pay the same amount. NEAT HUH??

[MarkJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joelcolorado', 'T')he PROBLEM will be as we use less oil, gas etc. with smaller cars, there will not be enough taxes generated for road improvements.

Denver had a water conservation program and ppl responded and in ten years cut water useage in half. OF COURSE the water dept went broke so....they doubled the water bills to cover that. So you use less, and pay the same amount. NEAT HUH??

[MrBill]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joelcolorado', 'T')he PROBLEM will be as we use less oil, gas etc. with smaller cars, there will not be enough taxes generated for road improvements.

Denver had a water conservation program and ppl responded and in ten years cut water useage in half. OF COURSE the water dept went broke so....they doubled the water bills to cover that. So you use less, and pay the same amount. NEAT HUH??

[joelcolorado]

I agree with saving resources but with water it is laughable. As long as we continue to pour millions of gallons of water a day on golf courses for our PLEASURE, we do not have a shortage. In Las Vegas there are something like 50 golf courses requiring millions of gallons of water A DAY. I do know this as I used to do the testing for the State of Kansas. THere are at least 17,000 golf courses in the USA according to google and with each one using hundreds of thousands of water per day, its unbelievable what is going on. To tell ppl to put in low flush toilets is okay but stupid in light of the waste there. Add to that ball parks, parks, football and soccer fields, zoos and other public areas and you are talking serious water use. One single center pivot on a quarter section of land here in Kansas will use 93 million gallons of water a year. So with 30 millon acres irrigated in kansas that is 14,625,000,000,000 gallons of water a year used to produce crops that have to be subsidized to make them work for the farmer.

So we are not short of drinking water, but short on brains. ITs an allocation problem all over.

Public are irrigation and golf courses alone use enough water that if put into the city system would solve everyones water problems.