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Posts tagged as “water”

Luke! Take the Landspeeder to Riyadh, Pick up a New Vaporator!

Remember the moisture farm Luke Skywalker grew up on? If Luke changes his mind about the whole Jedi thing, it appears he could come back to work on new moisture farms in Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabians will soon be able…

Noem Wants Federal Money for Lewis and Clark Water

Hot on the bootheels of bemoaning all the "unneeded, duplicative, and wasteful" Washington spending that has arisen since 1910, Intern Kristi Noem comes out in favor of more Washington spending for her thirsty South Dakota constituents. The Congresswoman tells KJAM…

Pass the Beer: Madison Water Has Too Much Chloroform

Neighbor and frequent commenter Eve Fisher is duly torqued: she and her fellow Madison residents are paying higher rates for sub-par water: City officials were recently notified that the average level of trihalomethanes in the city water was calculated at…

Water’s Rising: Install Small Hydro Power?

Colorado is looking into expanding zero-emissions power by adding hydroelectric power to irrigation dams: Colorado State University professor Daniel Zimmerle... and researchers will study how efficient and plausible low-head hydropower, which uses river current and tidal flows to produce energy…

Drink Your Tears: GOP Keeps Madison Dry

Just so we're clear: All you Republicans in Madison cheering for John Thune and Kristi Noem only have yourselves to blame for not getting the Lewis and Clark Regional Water hookup. Just like the Lake Area Improvement Corporation, Madison has…

Madison Loses 127 Million Gallons of Water?

Help me out, engineering friends. Take a look at this historical chart of Madison's water usage, which appears in the agenda packet for the next commission meeting (Monday, Feb. 14): Last year the city pumped 329 million gallons of water,…

GOP Threatening Lewis and Clark, Local Control

And there was wailing and gnashing of dry teeth.... The Madison Daily Leader reports that the failure of the omnibus spending bill in Congress means more uncertainty for the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. Remember, the GOP didn't want…