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Nihil

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3. Looks like ABQ is in the running to be #1 then ...

Reply to phantom power (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 1, 2013, 01:39 PM

Jul 2013

> By July 1, the water utility plans to switch entirely to deep wells beneath the city to supply the metro area’s water

> Total precipitation averaged across the state’s snowy high mountains and low arid deserts for the last 12 months,
> less than 8 inches, is the lowest since record-keeping began in the late 1800s.

> “There are a heck of a lot more people here now than there were a hundred years ago,”

Go drink deep from the fossil water ... and build the heap of fail even bigger with every year that you do so ...

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By July 1st, ABQ Will Be Totally On Groundwater; Water District Upstream Storage Nearly Gone [View all] hatrack Jun 2013 OP

Can you spell a-n-a-s-a-z-i? pscot Jun 2013 #1

One of these years, a major city is going to run out of water. phantom power Jun 2013 #2

Looks like ABQ is in the running to be #1 then ... Nihil Jul 2013 #3