[FRIAM] Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water (fwd)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Raymond Parks wrote:
>    A non-technical progressive who started writing that water is a 
> scarce resource no more than eight years ago writes sensational books 
> and gets listened to by at least the progressive community and some of 
> the general public.
>
> It's as if the public doesn't want to hear bad news from scientists 
> and engineers but doesn't mind it from those already labeled radical.
>   

Hmm, maybe if Orange County can build a sewage purification system that 
can serve 5 million people (for $480 million), perhaps could New Mexico 
cover the whole state for a similar cost?  In 2005 there were 895,116 
personal income tax returns 
(http://www.tax.state.nm.us/pubs/TaxreseStat/2005PITStatsFinal1.pdf).
That's about $536 a person to buy the same system as OC (or several 
smaller ones).  Presumably that could be spread out over a generation or 
two, say $20 over 30 years?

A tax and spend liberal,

Marcus