{"id":44574,"date":"2014-08-24T22:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/24\/deficit-spending-water-wise.html"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:20:22","slug":"deficit-spending-water-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/24\/deficit-spending-water-wise.html","title":{"rendered":"Deficit spending (water-wise)"},"content":{"rendered":"
We're busy making up budget shortfalls by dipping into our savings account. Or, worse, our one-time inheritance. Which sometimes you have to do, but which we seem to be doing without any recognition of the fact.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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If You Think the Water Crisis Can’t Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained<\/a>
\n As drought ravages surface water supplies, we’re pumping groundwater to save us. And it will-for a while.\n <\/p>\n

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We're busy making up budget shortfalls by dipping into our savings account. Or, worse, our one-time inheritance. Which sometimes you have to do, but which we seem to be doing without any recognition of the fact.\ufeff If You Think the Water Crisis Can’t Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained As drought ravages surface … Continue reading “Deficit spending (water-wise)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3015,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/22\/water_water_eve.html","url_meta":{"origin":44574,"position":0},"title":"Water, water everywhere …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Aug-02 6:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, actually water, water nowhere, as Denver Water issues new, tougher rules on water usage. 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