Because we drain ourselves

In The New York Times today we read that "[t]he response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion. All summer, more than a year after the drought began, fountains sprayed and football fields were watered, prisoners got two showers a day and Coca-Cola’s bottling plants chugged along at full strength. On an 81-degree day this month, an outdoor theme park began to manufacture what was intended to be a 1.2-million-gallon mountain of snow."
Well, I hope it's a really nice mountain of snow.

Earlier on BLDGBLOG: Drained