Well, it has finally been verified...

[Abigail_Adams]

53. Egad, that's an

excellent point. Even without the 500-year regional drought. I wonder if Phoenix wants the plant and jobs so much that it's letting Taiwan Semiconductor get away with not proving where it will get the water. The federal government is already mandating water cuts in the Southwest if states don't do it themselves.

My sister lived outside San Diego for many years, and developers were pushing for large housing developments in areas with no water, and they did not have to show how they would provide the water. And outlying towns that had been promised property tax income from the new developments were letting them do it. A recipe for disaster.

By the way, I had four years of Latin in high school (a small, private girls' school). Freshman year we were six. Sophomore year, four. Junior year, three. By senior year I was the last woman standing, and it became an independent study rather than a class. : ) Very hard work at the time, but it's saved my butt countless times, and I'd do it again.