Hi Syamanta,
Thanks much for sharing the thoughtful comments from Jim. c-da >Hello Chandan-da: > >Hope you are doing fine !! How is B'dew ? I got an email regarding riverlink >from a yahoo group and thought you might be interested. I dont know the >email of Jim as it was protected.. > >yours, > >syamanta > > > > > >------------------- > >Syamanta > >Every competent civil engineer and planner knows the riverlinking plan is >inappropriate, manufactured of half-truths, based upon false premises, >intended to enrich members of their profession and the profiteers that >sponsor them. But every competent civil engineer and planner also knows >which side their bread is buttered on if they are willing to testify >falsely, and which side their butt is battered on if they don't. > >Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the alternative >of "catching raindrops where they fall" with simple USDA-NRCS/EPA Best >Management Practices and guiding these to surface and aquifer storage in >sufficient quantity to eliminate justification for the project. Don't waste >energy trying to kill the project, it will die a natural death when the >proper plan is made clear to the public. > >I've posted my views at interminable length so won't go into detail or give >more examples to show that retention of stormwater is far cheaper and more >publicly beneficial than drainage of this precious asset. If you and those >who oppose this monumental scam doubt the value of this approach that I've >borrowed from impartial experts, you won't do your 'homework' and discover >the truths that I've been handed by PEs and techs whose personal integrity >required complete and accurate illustration of alternatives. > >Politicians-journalists-public are misled Worldwide into accepting complex, >costly projects like this one that lock the public into permanent debt and >give private persons control over the essential service of providing water. >We will not get the needed systems, will continue to see >deregulation-privatization-centralization bleed our treasuries, until we >become informed well enough to recognize false testimony and choose at least >moderately competent and honest polticians. > >A gallon saved is a gallon earned, one less to flood your neighbor, and one >more to nourish streams that provide irrigation water. That truth must guide >us if we are to become able to see through the illusions of profiteers >aligned with bureaucrats to steal from us. > >- M.K. Ghandi told us " The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer >be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. " >- A. Lincoln said: "I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to >be true views" >- R.A. Emerson told us "there is no knowledge that is not power. >- And M.K. Ghandi stated : "You must be the change you want to see in the >world." > >These quotes may be combined to describe the ways in which honest, capable, >concerned persons must be willing to find and sort basic information so that >they can discern the reason to cease throwing away water with disposal >plans, to save it as near as practical to where it is delivered to us as >rain. > >- We are slaves to expert liars who misuse their expertise to dissuade us >from letting common sense guide conceptual planning. We must resolve to >become our own expert by relearning basic truths. > >- When we let new views shape truer views we will then trust what common >sense tells us. > >- When we relearn the basics of water managment we will recognize that the >'common' people of a watershed are the most qualified to construct its >comprehensive plan. We will become empowered to properly instruct experts >and detect false testimony. > >- And when we regain the trust of youth in the strength of our conclusions >and the ideas these generate, we become the change we want to see in our >world. > >Jim Marple > >_________________________________________________________________ >Concerned that messages may bounce because your Hotmail account is over >limit? Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam
