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Water Shortages
July 04, 2009
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I don't have a great deal of facts to share with you just one line out of Governing Magazine Christopher Swope's latest "Urban Notebook" article on Biking Across America or Meet the Mayor.

The story is about a guy who biked across America and meeting with and photographing mayors from big towns and small towns. In the story was this one quote, "...economic decline and seemingly endless shortages of water."

These are small towns that are not outgrowing their water supply, they are just running out of water. Climate change is will give us excess amounts of water in some places and shortages in others. Here in the Pacific NW our water supplies come not so much from lakes behind dams, but from the annual snow pack in the mountains. Warmer weather, rain on snow in the winter, equates to less water in summer.

Right now my lawn is turning brown. I finally figured out that the irrigation system is not working. Perhaps brown grass in summer is something I need to become prepared for, even if the irrigation system is working because of I expect water rationing in the future.

As emergency managers we will have a new American hazard to deal with, water shortages and drought, n places we have not had the issue previously.
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