On 8/15/2013 12:17 PM, sf wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:41:24 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>
>> On 2013-08-15 16:15:34 +0000, Ophelia said:
>>
>>> "Gary" > wrote in message ...
>>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Gary" wrote:
>>>>>> Most flushing went all to hell once we all switched to those low-flush
>>>>>> toilets to "save the earth."
>>
>> Not that again! The earth is a parasite, costs too much money, and I
>> now it's apparently "too big to fail". Everybody seems to think being
>> haplessly wasteful with the earth's limited resources is hapless and
>> wasteful--what's up with that!?!
>>
>> At least I think that's the political cut-and-paste du jour.
>
> California went to low flow because we suffered through a 10 year
> drought and were forced to act. Snow doesn't make itself and crops
> don't grow without H2O. On top of that LA sucks up water like there's
> no tomorrow and Southern California makes a play for Northern
> California water whenever they think the politics are in their favor;
> Sacramento wasn't on metered water at the time (maybe not even now)
> and we had to start conserving what little we had left.
>

Like they said in the film, paraphrasing, "let it alone Jake, it's only
Chinatown..."

Hollis Mulray was of course an analog for Mulholland who shipped all
that water out of the Owens Valley to LA.