my fave Diana Ross and the Supremes song...came out in 1967 and was kinda trippy psychodelic....on the radio you could hear the Beatles, the Stones and Diana Ross and the Supremes in the same set...it was heaven...the Supremes songbook was huge and put Motown front and center....and I missed Diana at the Santa Barbara Bowl..I missed her...I missed a legend.......just a handful of promisses, are all that's left...
well, water casts a reflection too you know
ever since I sounded the warning that the lakes were evaporating and the polar ice caps were melting, ever since I told the politicians to stop worrying about superficial things..ever since then everyone is talking about the drought and the water sitch, which ain't too good...
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| a bird in the hand, is worth two in the Bush |
even the News-Press has jumped on the band wagon...an article about why the City of Santa Barbara in rebuilding the Reclamation Plant in a drought...the story was by hot 'n bothered Sara Bush who last wrote about co-eds at UCSB and sugar daddies!! how long do I have to wait, Sara???
I remember the last drought had everyone so panicked, some were painting their lawns green! and the people voted for state water and desal...state water is ok unless the state is in a drought....desal is ok if you got lots of money and time....and another water saver was the little reclaimed water plant the city built in the late 1980s...
it was designed like the Cater Water Plant but with a monofilter-anthracite coal..and it was only designed to capture and filter about one million gallons out of an average 11 million gallons that pass through the wastewater plant each day...that's alot of water for flushing..alot of fresh water..too much fresh water!! sewage water is 99.9% pure..like Ivory soap..so they say
the reclaimed water was stored on site in a tank, then pumped to users at night for irrigation...the plant worked like a charm for 10-15 years, but it was too small and the design was more of a proto-type..so maintenance was an issue
and the big tank that stores the reclaimed water was built with a potable water fill valve in case the reclaimed plant was off-line....
so the old tertiary plant outlived its usefulness and the city is building a bigger and better one...technology changes and things become obsolete very quickly, esp prototypes and iphones.......if you design something make sure you don't make it impossible or dangerous to maintain! and make sure it works as intended..and build with an eye toward future absurdly restrictive water regulations...$$$$$$$$
now I heard that some folks tried to blame the unions and pensions for the old reclamation plant's end...that is silly and ignorant and I'm not surprised because today's conservatives are silly and ignorant...but shit, they own the facilities, so they should tour it and ask questions once in awhile....but it's best to leave these decisions to the pros in the water dept
it's too bad we use so much fresh water to flush the toilet, but if you wanna blame someone for the drought, I blame all of you alcoholics who are probably flushing right now...how many times....three or four after last night's Santa Barbara gourmet foodie and wine extravaganza??? alcohol is a diuretic, so you piss more and flush more
when I'm hungry, I want to eat a cheeseburger, fries, and a Coke.. I don't wanna analyse it, fret over it or judge it..I just wanna fucking eat it....
now you see, everything is connected...it's a circle....or cycle...you wanna pretend you're Ms or Mr Fancypants all unconcerned about the paucity of water?
fine, but don't coming running to me when you can't see your reflections anymore
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