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03/16/2004: "Water use"

Tyler Cowen discusses trends in US water use. He notes that water consumption remains flat even as our population grows. The underlying report discusses uses such as electricity generation and agriculture and sources such groundwater.
The missing factor here is geography. Here, in the midwest, we are (pun intended) swimming in the stuff. We can take another shower without risking brownouts (from low resevoirs), dead fishies (from low resevoirs), or uncontrolled forest fires (from low resevoirs) (yeah, I know I should have three links there). As I have stated before, our federal government is not right sized to address this issue; we need another entity to govern water use in our water shed.