Because apparently water tables in this area are getting rather strained. From the Spokesman-Review...The two-year study done by the Columbia Basin ground water Management Area, based in Othello, found that aquifer levels are dropping fast, that most deep wells in the study area are drawing water left from the Ice Age floods at least 10,000 years ago, and that there is virtually no chance Lake Roosevelt is recharging deep wells in Eastern Washington’s driest counties.
“This is a major issue for cities and big irrigators,” said Paul Stoker, executive director of the ground water agency.
Franklin, Adams, Grant and Lincoln counties are most affected in a study area covering about 8,000 square miles.
I'm not so thrilled about that one. Thirty minute showers are a specialty of mine in the morning, and to have that taken away would be a fate worst than starvation.However, counties may want to look into something like water rationing and stuff. The Western United States has been hit by a pretty nasty drought that has been ongoing to the point where I'm pretty sure LA and Vegas are going to have a smackdown over who gets to have the Colorado River for water. You don't really want to see that happening around these parts.
Meanwhile, back here in the PNW, I'm wondering how much this will affect Spokane since it has one of the purest and most abundant water aquifers in the country, if not the world. Oh, and they put a train refueling and repair station right over it and then diesel started to leak down into it. Hooray!
At least maybe diesel will clean that ginger color out of my hair.
