Here in Florida everyone believes that every single sinkhole pond is a
"spring fed lake". If you don't believe me just ask a realtor! If you mention
the fact that the water is just sitting there rather than flowing the happy
homeowner (whose lot size grows ever larger as the lake recedes) will
explain that there must be a hole in the bottom of the lake otherwise how
does
the water squirt up to fill the lake basin? These are the same folks who
believe that if you dig a hole in the backyard water will rush up to fill it,
this despite the fact that their well is 200 feet deep. (This is the same
as the creationist argument for design. If the bucket gets filled with
water there has to be a faucet, right?)
None of these folks believe that their ever receding lakes are in any way
affected by anthropogenic climate change, drainage ditches, golf course
irrigation, or that the green slime coming out of what used to be a spring has
anything to do with their septic tank. It is all magic. I just heard on NPR
that a researcher recently determined that no one would drink perfectly
sterile reclaimed water because it had once touched a turd, but they are
happy to drink the polluted aquifer because it is "natural". Therefore it is
best to dispose of perfectly clean reclaimed water by dumping it into the
river then pump it back out again after it has been "purified" by running past
the town just upstream. And to think that they came to all these
conclusions without me even having to put LSD in the public water supply!
But not everybody is that dumb. I once had an in depth conversation with a
very intelligent Mayan Indian in Belize who after a shot of rum and a pull
on a spliff got downright philosophical. He explained that everybody knew
that water simply came out of the ground, presumably due to the intercession
of Oztotl, but he had a different idea. He said, "Maybe it has something
to do with rain?"
Sleaze
