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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 03:03 PM


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let's do some math....

if i use 500 gallons a week
for 30 days i use 15,000 gallons


How much did you pay for that new truck?
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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 03:13 PM


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Quote:
Originally posted by Bob and Susan
let's do some math....

if i use 500 gallons a week
for 30 days i use 15,000 gallons


How much did you pay for that new truck?


good catch........




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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 03:53 PM
???


Quote:
Originally posted by Bob and Susan
let's do some math....

if i use 500 gallons a week
for 30 days i use 15,000 gallons

a town of 50,000 would use 750,000,000 gallons

if the blatter was 171,000 gallons

we would need 4386 blatters

seems like alot of "blatter space"


get a solar shower (and math tuition) you're obviously part of the problem

[Edited on 8-12-2007 by k1w1]
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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 04:11 PM


Bob

You certainly are not into water conservation, we use water for ourselves and many plants and trees, pool and only use 10,000 lts per month.




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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 04:24 PM


Comitan..........

Seems like Bob is having a bad math day. If they're using 500 gal per week, as stated, I believe their usage is a bit less than yours per month. But, wait till they plant all the green stuff.
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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 04:59 PM
Guadalupe valley well


My kids bot a four acre piece a couple miles out of FZarco, dug a 30 foot deep well, hit good water,
out come the authorities,
capped the well,
like right now.
No permiso, No agua...
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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 05:10 PM


I'll bet if mexico went back to the "old rules" ie no foreign land ownership, the water situation would correct itself pretty quickly. Kick all the gringos out and everything will be fine. :P
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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 05:38 PM
math challenge


If you use 500 gallons/week, you are using 71.5/day, 2143/month.

You are multiplying your weekly use by 30?????

It must be the heat, or happy hour, or .... :lol::lol::lol::lol:

Either way, you better sharpen your pencils, or I don't know what's going to happen to your commercial venture. Maybe let your wife do the math (or maybe she already is!).
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rolleyes.gif posted on 8-12-2007 at 05:41 PM
And I'll bet you don't win many bets


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I'll bet if mexico went back to the "old rules" ie no foreign land ownership, the water situation would correct itself pretty quickly. Kick all the gringos out and everything will be fine. :P




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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 05:44 PM


The people taking the water here are Mexicans.



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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 06:06 PM


Dave wrote

"And I'll bet you don't win many bets"

Let's put it this way Dave. If the odds are against me, I won't place the bet in the first place.

Bajajudy wrote:

"The people taking the water here are Mexicans."

I didn't realize all or even most of those massive developements in Cabo were owned and occupied by Mexicans.


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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 06:45 PM
Let's see...


...with the oncoming Global Warming causing sea levels to rise...maybe we'd better get some really LARGE DeSal plants up and running to keep the oceans at bay!

We'd all be 'swimming' in pools of clean, pure, DeSal'd water!...Now let's see...we'd have to power those LARGE DeSal plants somehow...I know, let's use coal-fired electrical power plants...Oh, the emissions from the coal plants tend to cause global warming...what the hell, we'll have lots of fresh water anyway!

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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 07:04 PM


Quote:
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I didn't realize all or even most of those massive developements in Cabo were owned and occupied by Mexicans.
[Edited on 8-13-2007 by craiggers]


Studies have shown that for each unit in those developments, nearly 20 Mexican nationals moved to the Cabo area. So there are a lot more Mexicans than foreigners, even during peak occupancy.

The Cabo Mexicans aren't watering golf courses, but maybe, like Loreto, they are watering their streets.

But it is true in southern Baja that foreign money is driving the economy, population growth and increased demand for water.




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[*] posted on 8-12-2007 at 08:30 PM


I watered the garden and washed the hot rod today. Never had a water outage here in TJ. Plenty of pressure. Sorry to hear about you guys downhill. :)

Let's hope for a real wet winter. If it's dry...............




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