Silflay Hraka

How to clean a shark.

is a fool’s delusion. John Tierney says as much, but he’s nicer about it than I usually am.

or, at least what was known as Texasgulf in the halcyon days of my youth, is pulling 68 million gallons of water a day from the Castle Hayne aquifer under Aurora without depleting the resource. Most of it is never used.

“Some of that water is used in our chemical plant, but most is pumped into a canal which leads to the river,” he said. “I assume most of that water ends up in the Pamlico Sound. If we didn’t locally depressurize the aquifer, water could burst through the surface and flood us out.”

It’s pretty hard water, but I’m still thinking “build a pipeline to the Triangle and Triad, then turn on the flow whenever those areas go into severe drought status.”