{"id":218,"date":"2009-12-22T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-12-22T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:44:54","slug":"dry-and-getting-drier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Dry and Getting Drier . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spend some time <a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/22\/showcase-96\/\">here<\/a>; forget the naysayers (and some of them, friends of mine, think that because the water&#8217;s always been there, it always will be); buzz over to Delano&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/c\/jameswhitlowdelano\/gallery\/Not-Enough-Water-Conquer-the-Desert-or-Live-Within-Its-Limits\/G0000TluvKRXE_eU\/\">gallery<\/a>; think about how rapidly the climate is changing&#8211;and then see if you can look at that Arizona golf course the same way again (or San Antonio&#8217;s Sea World, for that matter&#8211;a real travesty).\u00a0 Many of those pictures are from sites in the U.S.\u00a0 Read your history, folks.\u00a0 This is truly horrifying because the worst bad times might be on us again&#8211;and much sooner than you think.\u00a0 Looking away isn&#8217;t an option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lake-mead.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219\" title=\"lake mead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lake-mead.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>The bathtub ring in Lake Mead, from which Las Vegas and Arizona draw water, at 43% capacity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/colorado-river.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"colorado river\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/colorado-river.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>View over the Colorado River, most of which never reaches the sea.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spend some time here; forget the naysayers (and some of them, friends of mine, think that because the water&#8217;s always been there, it always will be); buzz over to Delano&#8217;s gallery; think about how rapidly the climate is changing&#8211;and then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilsajbick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}