now it finally starts...

when I was a kid running around the outer Sunset district of SF, the majority of homes featured green painted concrete out front, commonly known as 'Irish Lawn'.
Dry state lawns, golf courses, swimming pools...the epitome of self-entitlement hubris.
 
There won't be any real issues until they stop watering the golf courses. When the greens dry up, then we're going to have some trouble. until then, just another day on the ever-evolving planet earth.
 
swimmy said:
I water my lawn, have swam in a pool, and have parents who live on a golf course in the desert.

Sign me up for self-entitled.
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had little doubt about it, however, this is about SoCal and Az and their serious water problems...
 
swimmy said:
Well my folks live on a golf course in Arizona. So are you calling them self-entitled?
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When is your parents I think it's privileged. I could be wrong. I'm not up on the vernacular.
 
mcswny said:
I think this is the original article @SurfnFish was referencing.
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Could be. Have seen other articles in a similar vein..

Still haven't been able to locate an answer to the question of what happens to the dams themselves when the water pressure isn't pushing them against the canyon walls since they're" gravity" dams and depend on that to prevent erosion and spillage around the edges. At this rate, I think we'll get an answer within 10 years .

Also, the ideas to pipe water from either the Columbia or the Mississippi rivers to cover the loss is absurd.

Sam Kinnison once said " We have deserts in America too,we just don't f'kng live in them!!" Which of course, is a lie. But a great chunk of the problem we now have with that river system.
 
swimmy said:
Well my folks live on a golf course in Arizona. So are you calling them self-entitled?
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I haven't met your folks, but I know that they are retired and could live pretty much wherever they choose. I'm curious enough to ask them what their rationale is or was for choosing to move there. While in college, my youngest daughter had a boyfriend from Phoenix. We met his parents and I asked them whatever could have caused them to move there. (They were originally from the NE.) The dad's company sent them there, and they said they considered the weather quite agreeable 10 months of the year. They were otherwise oblivious and indifferent to water issues in the region. My guess is that is pretty common among desert dwellers.
 
Salmo_g said:
I haven't met your folks, but I know that they are retired and could live pretty much wherever they choose. I'm curious enough to ask them what their rationale is or was for choosing to move there.
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The same as millions of others who have moved there. They like the 10 months of nice weather. The other few months when it gets insane hot they travel north.

Salmo_g said:
They were otherwise oblivious and indifferent to water issues in the region. My guess is that is pretty common among desert dwellers.
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Not according to the OP. He thinks they are all self-entitled.
 
_WW_ said:
I'm still trying to determine if "self-entitled" is an insult.
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I still wear my deplorable label like a badge of honor.

Think I can handle being "self-entitled" as well.
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The internet is a tough place to read peoples emotions. It sounded like a verbal tussle was about to break out.

It sounds like things are about to change in a fairly big way for water users on the Colorado. I hope it works out for everyone.
 
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