All- The next time Governor Crist brings an interstate lawsuit about water use involving Florida, Alabama and Georgia or avoids Executive intervention for an intrastate lawsuit involving conservation of water bodies versus utility and municipality extractions….. or speculates about the need for Florida to mimic ‘western’ water use policies….let him think upon the following article about Mexico and extrapolated social meanings of migration/immigration *extracted* from water politics.
Don’t think for a moment that *extraction* can be divorced from conservation need within Florida, don’t think for a moment that Georgia and Alabama use can be divorced from Florida within the southeast, don’t think for a moment that 1986 Cadillac Desert warnings for the western US can be divorced from the 2007 Mirage warnings about the eastern US…. all are contextually embedded within a global scale of public policy interests and scarcity has caught up with us all. Our national near future will be the western hemisphere and water resources as much as weaning away from oil and the middle east and substituting alternatives to fossil fuel energy.
