[ale] Water Levels & Corps of NON Engineers.

Wed Jan 2 12:11:40 EST 2008

Another point made by a responder - 

Follow the $$$

Apparently, the generated power is fed into the grid and the revenue goes to
the COE. More water out = more power generated = increased revenue...

How do we get an accounting on that?

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Popovitch
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:03 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Water Levels & Corps of NON Engineers.

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:51 +0000, deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:
> The real problem is that water is basicly a 'free good': as a result,
> there is no drive to conserve it and efforts to do so drive up the
> costs, not lower them. If you want to see water conserved, raise the
> price even to a penny a gallon -- everybody will get religion on the
> subject then.

Hah!  Gas is above $3/gal and still in peak demand.......

The problem with Water levels (and most everything else these days) is
POLITICS!  At the core of Political Problems is incompetent
politicos.... because SMART and COMPETENT people avoid getting involved
with POLITICS!  

-Jim P.

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