Water, water, nowhere, and not a drop to drink. The call is out once again that Lake Mead will go thirsty because the Colorado River is not getting water from the mountains. A few hundred miles away, we have the Pacific Ocean with a few gallons to spare. All that has to be done is to run a huge pipeline system and put a plant in between to remove the salt and run the pure water into Lake Mead. Within a short time, Lake Mead would be full to the brim.

You say we can not do that because it would take too much money. We need the money to fight no-win wars. We have to kill terrorists because that is what we do. Kill one terrorist and a thousand more pop out of the sand hating us even more.

When I was in the Navy, we would take fresh water before we went on a cruise. Two weeks out to sea, we would run out fresh water. The engineering department would take in sea water and turn it into fresh water. I would drink it out of the water fountain, make it into coffee, which we were never without, and the cooks used it in their cooking. I lived on that purified sea water for years. I am 78 years old and still alive. Water is more important than bullets.