{"id":737,"date":"2007-11-03T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T14:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=172"},"modified":"2007-11-03T14:01:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T14:01:54","slug":"11307-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"11\/3\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of a President Bush veto of legislation to provide $23 billion for water projects across the country, Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio said he would work to override the veto, according to the Associated Press<\/em>. \u00a0 “We are facing a water infrastructure crises, and our national investment in water resources has not kept pace with our level of economic expansion,” said Voinovich. \u00a0 The Southeast, which is currently experiencing a major drought, is having water problems of their own. \u00a0 Ad hoc citizens groups, etc., are meeting to look at some of the problems, and solutions. \u00a0 At one of these groups, a friend of ours, Tom Farmer, who is the Board President for the Coosa River Basin Initiative in Rome, Georgia, said: \u00a0 “”If only we had such… passion for conservation.” \u00a0 Mr. Farmer recommended that a Statewide Water Management Plan should be “strong in language, with clear and enforceable rules.” \u00a0 I couldn’t help but think, is it a “water infrastructure” crisis we’re experiencing nationwide, as Sen. Voinovich postulates? \u00a0 Or \u00a0are we woefully short on what Mr. Farmer in Georgia points out: conservation. \u00a0 It’s my belief that \u00a0it is the latter. \u00a0 During an interview on the We The People<\/em> television show in Hibbings, Minnesota, I said our family of five share the same bath water to conserve. \u00a0 (They used to do that in the old metal washtubs every Saturday night in this country.) \u00a0 What’s more, we don’t take a bath or shower every day. \u00a0 We have become so ‘antiseptic’ in this country that we think showering daily is a must. \u00a0 It isn’t. \u00a0 Also, our research across the country has intersected us with: people \u00a0who collect rainwater in barrels at the bottom of down spouts to water their gardens, etc., people who don’t water their lawns and have learned to live with less than green grass, and dare I say, even: brown spots<\/em>; people who actually take GI showers; people who use waterless compost toilets; and, (Are you ready for this: “Super Water Saver Woman.”<\/em>) \u00a0 No kidding. \u00a0 The other night at a Bible Study on Halloween night (“costumes optional”), one woman showed up as Super Water Saver Woman<\/em>, cape, tights, the whole thing. \u00a0Among her ‘heroic’ strategies — and there were a number — she saves her shower water and buckets it into the toilet when it needs flushing. \u00a0 And she doesn’t flush after every pee either. \u00a0 (That in itself is seven gallons of water per: flush — in less you have a “low flush toilet.”) \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The point to all this is that while millions of people in South America, Africa, Indonesia… search desperately for clean drinking water every day, we’ve become tremendously gluttonous when it comes to consuming water in America. \u00a0 We should be conserving exponentially (our administration would propose water meters on every home and business) and taking the savings to help these other countries have more wells, sanitation systems, desalinization plants… so they, too, can have safe drinking water. \u00a0 And it shouldn’t take a drought to get us thinking about conservation. \u00a0 It should merely take a measure of spiritual principle — focused on social justice for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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