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- <text id=90TT1158>
- <title>
- May 07, 1990: American Notes:California
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 07, 1990 Dirty Words
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 37
- American Notes
- CALIFORNIA
- Trouble in Paradise
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Residents of Santa Barbara (pop. 80,000) have long resisted
- development that might attract people to their seaside city. In
- 1979 they voted down a measure that would have connected Santa
- Barbara to the state's water system, mostly because they feared
- a plentiful supply would encourage growth.
- </p>
- <p> Now there is trouble in paradise. A severe drought has
- plunged the city into a water crisis for the fourth consecutive
- year. City officials have hiked water-user fees as much as 500%.
- </p>
- <p> In a desperate search for new supplies, city officials are
- considering importing Canadian water in tankers or barges,
- employing a never used Chevron oil pipeline or building the
- country's biggest desalination plant. Despite the hardships,
- most Santa Barbarans would rather live parched than
- overpopulated.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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