"It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe"

Average inflows at Lake Michie reservoir 1/7/08 through 1/13/08: 3.125 cfs
Total inflows at Lake Michie (approximate) during that period: 14.175 million gallons
Average inflows at Little River reservoir 1/7/08 through 1/13/08: 1.4 cfs
Total inflowas at Little River (approximate) during that period: 6.35 million gallons
Month to date average demand for water in the City of Durham January 2008: 21.43 million gallons/day
Total shortfall (approximate) 1/7/08 through 1/13/08: 129 million gallons.

Trinity Park resident and Lohn Locke Foundation blogger Jon Ham, after misinterpreting comments made at the Duke/Durham drought forum last week:

And the final paragraph is this one, which I think would be huge news to anyone who’s been reading about water shortages in our local media:

“We have sufficient available resources right now to easily last us through the next 50 years,” Miller said. “It’s more of a function of making better use of what we have.”

Talk about undermining urgency to conserve water! If word of this gets out there’s be a rebellion among those whose businesses are threatened as we speak due to water restrictions.

Durham resident and DE commenter Trinity Rez: "As much as you want the world to be a particular way it will never be such."

Oy.