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Water, Water Nowhere

By Michael Connelly

When I talk about the coming additional costs to state and local govs from the transitional expenses related to global warming and its scary cousins, peak oil and declining water supplies, and the impact of those costs on all current programs and spending, like corrections sentencing, I usually focus on the weather elements. But here's a great story on what I'm talking about from the H2O side, in case you don't believe me:Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study finds. Those changes are likely to accelerate, says the study published Thursday in Science magazine, portending "a coming crisis in water supply for the western United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by Corrections Sentencing on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).