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Well-Worn Water Words
January 26, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Tired of a failure to connect the dots? Maybe not, but I suspect you’re tired of the 
expression “failure to connect the dots.”
A Tweet from Robert at Watercrunch provided the impetus for this post. In response to my saying that I was getting ‘burned out’ on water wars he suggested that we declare a truce and eschew the use of that term. I agreed.
But then I started thinking about some other phrases and words that have been overused by WaterWonks (yo tambien – me, too) and others (especially those who have no idea what they are talking about) as well. So I posted a couple of items over at my WaterWired blog that addressed some of these words and phrases that have become clichés.
Take a look at Well-Worn Water Words, Part 1 and Part 2. Readers also contributed. Be sure to read the comments that have been posted.
“We talk (water) scarcity, yet we have set (some of) our largest cities in deserts, and then have insisted on surrounding ourselves with Kentucky bluegrass. Our words are those of the Sahara Desert; our policies are those of the Amazon River.” – Richard Lamm, former governor of Colorado
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