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into aquifers; some geologists believe that once this process starts, it cannot be reversed. These are things that have and are happening; it is not theory, nor speculation; it is reality.
Yet, a “planner” in the Corps of Engineers office in Baltimore exhorts Washingtonians to “stop kidding themselves” about the water crisis, and to start planning for ground water pumping.
YES, INDEED. We should stop “kidding ourselves”—about our ability to abuse the capacities of our land, air and water forever, about our ability to “control” growth of the magnitude that has befouled so much of our beautiful America; about
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