As if having the most golf courses per capita is not enough for Arizona -- the land that may be running with milk 'n honey, but doesn't exactly corner the market on water.
"Developers plan to build a massive new water park that would offer surf-sized waves, snorkeling, scuba diving and kayaking - all in a bone-dry region that gets just 8 inches of rain a year. "
The park will presumably use up to 100 million gallons of water a year.
I'm being asked to install low flow shower heads and waterless toilets, to rip out my small lawn and replace it with rocks, to plant "native" plants, and to replace the water in my swimming pool with those plastic balls you see at kiddie amusement centers. Okay, maybe not that last. I'd always thought, however, that the purpose behind these "earth-friendly" requests was to conserve a precious resource in these drought-ridden days and I'm actually happy to do some of that. 'Specially the plastic balls. Kinky sex, innit.
I did not realize that I was supposed to save water so that some ersatz beach butthead who wants to carve a chunk of desert into yet another playground could have it.
Waveyard's developer, Mladick, who is 39, says he wants to create the kind of lush environment he remembers from growing up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and surfing in Morocco, Indonesia, Hawaii and Brazil. "I couldn't imagine raising my kids in an environment where they wouldn't have the opportunity to grow up being passionate about the same sports that I grew up being passionate about," he said.
It's called "move" dumbass. If you can't imagine your crib monkeys growing up in a fucking desert, then move your crotch fruit out of the fucking desert, is what I'm saying.
Or, he could wait until Cali breaks away, and the ice caps melt in this global warming thinger.
And they're actually going to allow this useless fuckbag to build this asstarded monument to his own lack of creativity (the moving thing?)
Good. We don't need morons like him in places where we actually HAVE oceans.
Sorry, by the way...
May your rant bring the idiot a surprise visit from Uncle Guido. Oh yeah, and a perpetual case of hemorrhoids.
Asswits get to do all kinds of retarded things here in the USofA, it's a free cuntry.
I prolly have my facts all hosed up but doesn't Arizona have a very large water table that just sits down there? That stuck in my mind for some reason, maybe because what we have here where the water table should be is a very large bunch of granite. Fucking goobermint here won't even allow me to collect rainwater because of the way big ranchers got the water-rights set up in state law way back when.
Maybe it's time to start lobbying for commercial-use water pricing. Money makes a good club if you have the right attitude or a discount ticket with Guido.
Yepper, 'Zona's over a lovely water table. It's not inexhaustable; the state is growing and the need for water for people to, well, drink, bathe in, wash in, etc. is growing.
Those promoting the idea of this humongous water park say "oh, but we'll only use the arsenic-poisoned water that no one else wants and we'll clean it up first" and "besides, the water we need is only about what 1200 people would be using" and "the average golf course uses more than this!"
Except -- we need water. We need it to live our daily lives. Our daily lives in Arizona do NOT have to include surfing and snorkling. Those are vacation lives and we have only a short distance to go to get that -- Rocky Point, San Diego are each less than a day's drive.
So clean up the arsenic water for our use. Don't fucking compare yourselves to a fucking golf course -- we don't really need those either. And 1200 people are gonna be here demanding that water. You'll sink your money into that, then what? We face water restrictions on when we can flush our toilets so you can let your kids snorkel in the desert?
Yeah.
So the powers-that-be who are presumably going to allow this shithead to proceed are undoubtedly looking at the revenue it will create? Or what???
Yeah, got it. No water, rationing, global warming, end of the world, four horsemen, all that.
But kinky sex in a swimming pool full of plastic balls? Now THAT'S important. Wouldn't have occurred to me in a bazillion years, and now haven't been able to think of much else.
You have a talent, kiddo. Prolly the water shithead should check in with you to design a theme park we could ALL get behind.
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