Often children cry "rain, rain go away, come back another day." Our prayer has become "rain, rain come today, do not wait another day."
In the last year Virginia, like most of the southeast has received far less precipitation than normal. Three weeks ago, the lake from which Atlanta draws its water only had a 90 day supply left. While recent rains have helped, the southeast needs much more rain.
With the water table has been dropping firms that dig wells have been doing a booming business as people hire them to make their wells go deeper. In late September Virginia’s governor issued a campfire ban, a ban that is still in affect. Loudoun Country, just to the northwest of us has been under water restrictions since the summer. This past Friday, the City of Fairfax too went under voluntary water restrictions. Though we are in the County it seems to be only a matter of time before we too could be under restrictions.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fairfaxfocus/2007/10/fairfax_city_calls_for_water_r.html
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4 comments:
Welcome to our world. As we have no lakes etc here, our water is gathered from local rivers into small resevoirs. Depending on the amount of snowfall in a year, we go into water restrictions anywhere between the end of June to the end of July. Our lawns etc and generally brown with just a slight hint of its natural green most of the summer. Since moving out west, I have become accutely aware of the fact that the natural resources God has given us are not limitless.
I was trying to be more conservative in my water usage even before the ban. I will continue to be conscious of it and will happy when we get some substantial rainfalls. We've had a few sprinklings and brief showers in the past few months, but they have alleviated the issue for short periods of time only. We need some good rain this fall and, dare I say it, some good snowfalls this winter.
Our grass was completely dead by the end of the summer due to us being away and not taking care of it. For the first half of the summer we were under a watering ban. It doesn't sound like that our percip levels will be changing anytime soon, either.
that's crazy! and don't tell me there's no global warming...
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