Light rain today.
Not nearly enough to relieve the drought, but every little bit helps. My garden is looking much greener.
When I started putting together The Monterey Life, it was my intention to post something at least 3-4 times a week. But sometimes life gets in the way, and I haven't done very well at keeping up with the posts. It's not like I haven't been doing anything though...I've been learning about the biggest Monterey lifestyle issue -- the looming water shortage. If we have to deal with 70% water supply cutbacks, living here is not going to be that much fun anymore.
While still living in Seattle, as we were considering moving to Monterey I became vaguely aware that there were concerns about water, and that there were plans being discussed to build a desalination plant. We came down to look at houses and our realtor, a lifelong resident, shrugged it off...."yeah, they've been arguing about that since I was a kid, and probably always will." I figured it would get sorted out in the end and didn't give it much thought since then. But with the drought dragging on, I started wondering about it, and decided to do a little research.
I started reading about the various proposals. As I read web sites and news articles, I would run across terminology, or references to past events and other projects I didn't know about, and that would take me in a new direction. Soon my head was spinning with information. I started keeping notes in One Note, and, because I can't help myself, I soon found myself organizing it all into categories. It occurred to me that others might be interested in all of this info, and an even better way to organize it would be to put it in a blog.
So I started a second blog...the Monterey Peninsula Water Spot.
The websites for various community-based advocacy groups also have lots of great information about the water supply issue. However, they are all advocating a particular position. My purpose was merely to obtain as much information for myself as I could. Eventually I will probably form an opinion one way or the other, but I still intend for the MP Water Spot be a roundup of the facts in as neutral a way as possible. The subject matter is a little dry (no pun intended), yes, but I have tried to keep it as light as possible.
Please give my new site a visit.
