Commentary: In Tucson, the Hypocrisy Footprint
From the Los Angeles Times, in a commentary by Christopher Cokinos:
“I call it the swimming pool at the end of time. Roots were chopped, earth scraped, white pipes snaked like the insides of a rocket ship, rebar netted down before the concrete was poured and the tap turned on, filling the pool — which is in my backyard — with water from mountain snowmelt via the Colorado River, the Central Arizona Project and fossil water from the local aquifer.
“If there’s one thing a nature writer shouldn’t do, it’s fill a big hole with water in the arid Southwest.”