[427sharpe]

I am surprised that Kalifornia has not gome to the old cistern system popular here in West Texas. New houses get built with an underground cistern (usually about 10-20k gallons) that catches what rainwater they have and used (non-toilet) water from the house for re-use on non-potable uses, like irrigation and such. Heck, even the ecomonster George Bush has one in Crawford.....too bad Al doesn't. I don't hear too much from the west (TX) about water shortages there. As for power...the greenies decided long ago that newts and spotted owls were higher priority than humans...hence no power plants (and God forbid NUCLEAR power plants!!) and no dams. Just wonder how long CA can leech off the other states before they put the screws down. Do you think the squeeze will finally bring Kalifornia back to it's senses?