Bad Policy Behind “Water Shortage”
There is no apparent drought of journalists with metaphors to define the so-called water crisis in the United States and California. Every month, it seems, another new end-of-the-world water book comes out.
Cynthia Barnett is the author of the book, “Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis.” In the Los Angeles Times, she recently wrote an op-ed, “America’s Water Mirage.” After visiting Hoover Dam with her daughter, Barnett’s sudden insight was, “[E]ven at Hoover Dam, the ugly truth about our water crisis is being ignored.”
Barnett’s article displayed a photograph of the “bathtub ring” around the rim of Lake Mead on the Colorado River showing evidence of “misuse of this precious resource.”
Source: California Watchdog. Read full article. (link)
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