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Malcolm,

In case you didn't know, 'the city' in Different Sean's case is Sydney, Australia.

I was in Tijuana a few weeks ago, and I can tell you, that is a city on the verge of a famine if there is any disruption to their water. That is absolutely a disaster waiting to happen. Their infrastructure is literally at the breaking point.

Thanks for the update on Pt Loma, nice to talk to someone who knows of what they speak. The EPA had given San Diego a waiver on the untreated sewage because it goes quite far out but I guess you have done some current research on the issue. I don't share your concern on the aquaduct. I don't really know how you can do more than disrupt it with anything smaller than a nuke. I would think no terrorist damage could do more than a week's worth of work to one of those. They are actually pretty amazing structures. Miramar, Lake Hodges, and San Vicente can easily sustain us for months on their own with drastic rationing.

I do agree on a desal plant. I'm surprised we don't just build one next to San Onofre but I suspect there already is one there for the base. In any case, it is the logical way to go, and when it is all done it would shut a lot of people up. I'm a little tired of constantly living with some political crisis like we are going to run out of water.

Everybody in CA is stealing water from the ocean.

What percentage of asking price qualifies an offer as a “lowball?”

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