Is that a big above ground pool? Jeff Foxworthy approves.

I wonder when desalination plants will finally be put to good use and our lakes won't be the primary water source for consumption.

The technology is already is in use in many parts of the world.

I understand not everybody eats rice, however, I do believe that the extremely vast majority of those Homo Sapiens which remain cognizant and corporeal eat something, and that "If you eat, you are involved in agriculture."

To wit, to eat on the scale we must (with so many folks that live in the city and do nothing more than shuffle electrons about a screen) you must farm. Rice farming being water intensive, and yet, not nearly so much as say, having a carpetgrass front yard, or a nice place to play golf, which are among the greatest consumptive use of waters diverted to municipalities, especially in drier areas of Texas, like, but certainly not limited to, Austin, San Antonio, or Dallas. I do understand the need for something other than an ergonomic seat and screen for respite, but also that for the most part, humans can't eat grass. A nice xeriscape with a low consumptive water feature such as a small pond for birds and wildlife calms me as well as mowing the yard.

Remembering as well, the Highland Lakes, some of them anyhow, were expressly built for the irrigation of areas downstream for the purpose of high value food production. Not to water rich folks' lawns.

Saying all that, I do favor the construction of "off-channel reservoirs" especially if they can be built in less ecologically sensitive areas than the bottomland hardwood forests typically covered up by on channel reservoirs. If that helps keep the Texas playground known as the Highland Lakes, full, well I like to go play there myself.

There are many such reservoirs in my area (Brazoria County), my fish hatchery and fishing club consists of many such, and I manage many such from less than 1, to well over 1000, acres. They do not have to be featureless bowls as that picture above depicts. Here is a google earth map of one such I made from a bowl to a bass lake....cut and paste to your browser....

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Danbury,+TX/@29.1984547,-95.2866148,906m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x8640612edd161765:0xcfe44277f6d149a7

Now if you scroll about the area, you can see many, many off-channel reservoirs with the creek/bayou channel winding between them. Some are right by the channel, others, like the above are fed by long canals and can be a considerable distance from the channel. I rebuilt most you can find around the town of Danbury at one point or another, to make bowls into a fishing lakes.

I eat rice anytime I feel like it, but I won't eat Texas rice.

Why?

Why?


I think Douget Rice is an excellent product. http://www.doguets.com/index.htm







What's rice without some roux?


Have to admit Jasmine rice is a favorite.