Monday, December 29, 2008

Most laugh...Will You?

Ok, so to make this really simplistic, let's suppose Johnny likes tomatoes. However, Johnny does not like to plant and grow his own tomatoes. Wait a minute... How does this relate to rainwater harvesting you say. Well, as most people understand, the governmental municipalities are slow to react to most change and/or futuristic thinking. I still recall 3 years ago my discussion with one municipality who told me that their water was plentiful and that is was just too cheap to look at alternate sources or even make a strategic plan for such. The same municipality made clear cut false statements that dam repair was the cause of one of their basins going so low in the summer of 08. Once the dam was fixed, they would "fill" the reservoir back up. It must have been a slow dam project as they never released to fill up. Now, for the part that most folks laugh at. Are we seeing or will we see a new kind of farming take place? Water farming? Yes, that is right, water farming. What if a water farm collected rainwater from the skies in mass quantities? ((I know that some folks are already doing this (sort of) like Tank Town in Texas.))---I mean large collection. Here again, the governmental agencies just refuse to respond to such an idea. However, let's assume water farming is real. (And it is on our water farm) Take for example Johnny and his tomatoes... Johnny needs water but he isn't willing to collect it. His well runs dry and then Johnny is willing to purchase water. There happens to be no municipal water supply where Johnny lives in rural nometerh20ville, USA. Now Johnny is buying water from a farm that has the water and is supplying his needs as well as trying to recharge his aquifer for his well. Johnny is happy doing so. Rain is the new crop. It costs nothing to produce, is easy to harvest, and is profitable.

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