In the local paper today there was an announcement of revised watering restrictions. There has been an issue with dirty water throughout the city and county over the past six weeks. The county's public works office has been stating and restating the mantra that the dirty water has been caused by many people watering at the same time (when they're allowed to) which is loosening minerals and such in the water lines.
If this were a football game, a penalty flag would be thrown, the call: bullshit. They say if you say something long enough, you actually begin to believe it. Just ask O.J. Simpson if he killed his wife and Ron Goldman. I have it from an exceptionally reliable source that the dirty water isn't due to excessive watering. It appears that due to the severe drought in these here parts, the water levels and flow rates in the local rivers have dropped so low that the county has been switching some of their intake feeds to a local reservoir created to provide drinking water for at least three counties in this area, ours included. The switch over to take water from that reservoir is the reason for the dirty water. Think about it: would people in newer subdivisions be experiencing dirty water from mineral deposits in brand new water lines? I think not.
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