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Not all development consume resources equally. Urban development uses less land and therefore there's less irrigating necessary for lawns, gardens, etc. Less land developed also means less roads and more open land to capture rain to feed the ground water supplies. So, in addition to identifying new sources of water, we ought to also be thinking about new growth strategies that will leverage water (and other resources) more effectively without having to cut off development and growth.
I'm not going to get comfy, but it does feel nice to exhale a little bit. Having 316 days of water again is a relief. This was scary.
Exhaling is a perfect way of describing it! I couldn't agree more. Now, let's hope the folks in Atlanta can do the same thing soon. I think they are still up a (dry) creek without a paddle.
The ultra liberals want to believe it's because everyone but them is just so wasteful with our water. The reality is, as has been said, that nobody planned for the growth in this area. We have no way to deal with short term drought even, because our reservoir is not big enough, period. All you can do when Falls Lake gets full, which guess what, it's going to do, is start dumping it out into the rivers. Then any slight drought starts depleting it again.
People being wasteful is about 10% of the equation, the rest is poor planning by Raleigh officials.
This wasn't any slight drought. It was the most significant drought on record.
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