A new twist on complaints

Matt Whiting wrote:

I suspect the driver, pun intended, :-) will be a shortage of
water given population trends in the US.

I doubt that. While golf courses use tremendous quantities of water, it doesn't
have to be potable. In areas where the water table depth makes wells
prohibitively expensive, there may be no alternative for a course, but in most
places, there would be.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

Many golf courses store rain water in ponds and use that to irrigate.
There is plenty of water in the US. It just isn't where the people are.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Matt Whiting wrote:

I suspect the driver, pun intended, :-) will be a shortage of water
given population trends in the US.

I doubt that. While golf courses use tremendous quantities of water,
it doesn't have to be potable. In areas where the water table depth
makes wells prohibitively expensive, there may be no alternative for a
course, but in most places, there would be.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your
neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.