Letter to the Editor - 4/28/08
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Last week was Earth Day. As I understand it this is a day set aside to step back and take a look at what we're doing to our planet and its environment (we should be doing this every day anyway); so I find it ironic that the powers that be choose this day to turn on the fountain by the library. Now, getting that amount of water that high in the air takes some kind of energy generated by a source that adds to our environmental problems…and for what? To add to the aesthetic quality of campus life? Isn't Earth day a time to stop and re-assess our gratuitous squandering of finite resources. Once again I see phony lip service being paid to an issue that should concern us all.
J. Ford
Skeptic
> Comments
No more water!! on Apr 28, 2008 at 07:22 AM:
Well maybe we should turn off all the water fountains and disable flush toilets too, hey?
James on Apr 28, 2008 at 09:06 AM:
Wow, this is really incredibly stupid. Why would you even print something like this?
J. Ford, if it makes you feel any better, the water that gets passed through the fountain then goes through a treatment process and gets ejected into Lake Michigan; the great thing is that the water, after being treated, is actually CLEANER than the lake water! So by having the fountain on we are contributing towards cleaning up the lake! But I'm sure you didn't think of that one.
Obviously, I don't really care whether or not it's on, because the amount of energy a fountain uses is so miniscule it's completely irrelevant. If you want to fight pollution then fight the system that creates it; stop whining about whether or not a fountain was on.