{"id":529,"date":"2006-06-24T14:32:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=522"},"modified":"2006-06-24T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T14:32:16","slug":"62306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"6\/23\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland — <\/strong>Persistent rains battered the region yesterday… started a Plain Dealer <\/em>article today. In 24 hours, the area had an average rainfall of about 5 inches. In Kenya, it only rains 9 inches, a<\/em> year<\/em>. In Tanzania sometimes, it’s even less. At a campaign stop in Hibbings, Minnesota, several years ago, I interviewed Sheila Arimond who went on a mission trip to Tanzania. She told me that every day she would walk to a dry creek bed with some rural villagers to dig for water. Sometimes they’d find water, sometimes they wouldn’t. And if they didn’t, these people would go thirsty that day… Returning to America, Sheila (who lives in a modest, one-story ranch style home) told me the Tanzanian experience made her reflect on the “opulence” of her life… “I’d feel guilty turning on the water,” she said. Note:<\/strong> In the Environmental Position Paper <\/em>I continue to update this week, I talk about this Third World water scarcity and what Americans can do to help. At the very least, we can, indeed, feel guilty about our excessive water use (in comparison to the Third World), and we can, for instance, take “GI showers” or share bath water — and funnel the hot water heating savings to humanitarian aid efforts into Tanzania, Kenya… And that’s just a couple of a multitude of conservation strategies to help people in the Third World… And they will ask: “But Lord, when did we see you thirsty?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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