Re: Chrysler sells all 6400 Dodge Challenger muscle cars

John Harding wrote:
> Michael Johnson <cds@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
>> Even with water there are many areas where supply is more than
adequate. 
>>   I live in Virginia and we have water running out of our ears.  If we 
>> need more then we build another dam.  The real problem when it comes to

>> water is too many people want to live in places where it is scarce. 
For 
>> some reason we think living by the millions in Phoenix, Las Vegas, 
>> Southern California etc. is the way nature intended.  I hear these 
>> people complaining about water shortages and I just scratch my head and

>> want to scream "You live in a f***ing desert, what do you expect?!?!" 
>> The same goes for many other parts of the world.
>>
> Of all the states that have access to the great lakes, only Indiana
wants to 
> sup up as much as they can and not return what they used back into the 
> watershed.  That's because only a tiny tip of the state is attached to
the 
> lakes while the rest resides on land that has lowered their water table 
> through use of wells to a point where they are predicted to be screwed
dry in 
> 20 more years.

I grew up in Indiana and have all my relatives still living there.  They 
have plenty of water.  Besides, there is a great way to collect water. 
It is called a dam.  Indiana uses 303 mgd of ground water or 110,595 mgy 
(million gallons per year).  Indiana is comprised of 36,291 square 
miles.  Do the math and you will find the that the 110,595 mgy used is 
3.28% of the State's annual rainfall volume of 3,369,077 mgy.  Much of 
Indiana's ground cover is natural which promotes high saturation of 
rainfall into the soil.  Typical runoff coefficients for natural, flat 
land areas is about 0.25-0.35 which means the majority of rainfall soaks 
into the soil.  I doubt Indiana's water table levels are in much 
jeopardy overall.  I did a quick Google search regarding falling water 
tables in Indiana and didn't find any huge issues regarding a dwindling 
ground water supply in the state.

> The agreement in place about using water from the great lakes is an 
> international treaty between Canada and the USA that mandates two way
flow of 
> water.  If it's taken in, it's got to be put back in.

Do you know why the level of the Great Lakes are dropping?  It is 
because the Earth's crust is rebounding due to the weight of the 
glaciers being removed from the retreat of the last ice age.  Here's a 
link:  http://tinyurl.com/4szlt4
 Trying to control the level of the 
Great Lakes is like trying to stop a volcano from exploding.