Texas RV Travel blog德克萨斯州的RV旅游博客

Please add your name to the petition for clean water today请将您的姓名，以信访为干净的水今天 . 。

Benefits of Clean Water 的好处，干净的水

Americans make an estimated 1.8 billion trips to go fishing, swimming, boating, or enjoy other activities at water destinations that they judge are clean and safe enough for these activities.美国人作出估计18.0亿人次去捕鱼，游泳，划船，或享受其他活动在水的目的地，他们判断是清洁和安全的足够为这些活动。

In 2001, sport fishermen spent more than 557 million days fishing the nation’s and spent some $36 billion in goods and services to support their fishing activities.(1)在2001年，体育渔民用了超过557000000天捕鱼民族的，并花了一些360亿美元的商品和服务，以支持他们的捕鱼活动。 （ 1 ）

This $36 billion in direct expenditures for fishing, in turn, generated another $102 billion in purchases throughout the economy and 1.1 million jobs with benefits to local economies wherever fishing takes place.(2)这360亿美元的直接开支为捕鱼，反过来又产生了另一种1020亿美元在购买整个经济和1.1万个就业机会与福利，对当地经济的情况下钓的地方。 （ 2 ）

The $45 billion commercial fishing and shell fishing industry depends on clean water to sustain fisheries and deliver products that are safe to eat.该450亿美元的商业捕鱼和壳牌捕鱼业，取决于干净的水，以维持渔业和提供的产品是可安全食用。 The industry employs 250,000 people harvesting over 10 billion pounds of fish and shellfish from the Great lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Puget Sound, and other water bodies.(3)业界雇用25.0万人收获超过100亿磅的鱼类及贝壳类动物从大湖地区，墨西哥海湾，普捷湾健全，和其他水体。 （ 3 ）

Manufacturers use about 13 trillion gallons of water a year.(4) While manufacturing operations vary widely; nearly all require a reliable source of clean water for production purposes, cooling, or as an essential ingredient in products.制造商使用约130000亿加仑水1年。 （ 4 ） ，而制造业务，差别甚大;几乎所有需要一个可靠的消息，干净的水生产的目的，冷却，或作为一个不可或缺的要素，在产品。

The soft drink manufacturing industry alone uses over 12 billion gallons of water each year to produce products generating over $54 billion in sales.(5)软饮料制造业单独使用超过12亿加仑的水，每年生产的产品发电超过540亿美元的销售额。 （ 5 ）

Other benefits include increased value of shorefront properties, income to local governments from downtown development along riverfronts and from increased beach use from clean beaches, and reduced sickness from waterborne disease leading to greater productivity of the workforce.其他的好处包括增加价值shorefront性质，收入，地方政府从市中心沿线的发展riverfronts和增加使用泳滩，从清洁沙滩，和减少疾病，由水性疾病导致更大的生产力的劳动人口。

* 54 percent of Americans believe clean water is a right not a privilege. * 54 ％的美国人相信，干净的水是一种权利不是一种特权。
* 90 percent of Americans believe that a federal investment to guarantee * 90 ％的美国人相信，一个联邦的投资，以保证
clean water is a critical component of our nation’s environmental well-being.清洁的水是一个重要组成部分，我们国家的环境福祉。
* 91 percent of Americans are concerned that America’s waterways will not be * 91 ％的美国人担心，美国的水道将不会
clean for their children and grandchildren.清洁，为他们的子女和孙辈。
The Luntz Research Companies, February 2004该luntz研究公司，于2004年2月

The above information is an excerpt from the report A National Clean Water Trust Fund — Principles for Efficient and Effective Design by Kenneth I. Rubin, PA Consutling Group.上述资料是摘自该报告的国家清洁水信托基金-原则，效率和有效的设计，由丁一鲁宾，坝c onsutling组。

Please add your name to the petition for clean water today请将您的姓名，以信访为干净的水今天 . 。

——- ---
1. 1 。 US Fish and Wildlife Service, 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Outdoor Recreation, US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC (October 2002).美国鱼类和野生生物服务， 2001年全国统计调查结果显示，钓鱼，打猎，和户外康乐，美国商业部，华盛顿特区（ 2002年10月） 。
2. 2 。 American Sport Fishing Association, The 1996 Economic Impact of Sport Fishing in the United States,美国钓鱼运动协会， 1996年的经济影响，钓鱼运动在美国， http://www.asafishing.org . 。
3. 3 。 US Environmental Protection Agency, Liquid Assets: A summertime Perspective on the Importance of Clean Water to the Nation’s Economy , EPA-800-R-96-002, May 1996, p.6.美国环境保护署， 流动资产：一个夏天的角度上的重要性，干净的水，以国家的经济 ，环保局- 800 - - 96 - 002 ， 1996年5月，小六。
4. 4 。 US Bureau of Census data cited in US EPA, Liquid Assets , p.10.美国人口普查局引用的数据，在美国环保局， 流动资产 ，第10页。
5. 5 。 US EPA, Liquid Assets , p.10.美国环保局， 流动资产 ，第10页。

No Comments »没有评论»

Things I’ve learned from my Boys (honest and not kidding): 事情我已经学会从我的男孩（诚实，而不是在开玩笑） ：

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. 1 。 ）一景大小waterbed拥有足够的水，以填补2000平方米 ft. house 4 inches deep.内务英尺4英寸深。

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. 2 ）如果您喷雾头发喷雾剂对粉尘bunnies和运行超过他们与滚子叶片，他们可以点燃。

3.) A 3-year old Boy’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant. 3 ） 3岁男童的声音高涨， 200多名成年人在一个拥挤的餐厅。

4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. 4 ）如果您钩狗的皮带超过吊扇，汽车是不够有力旋转四二英镑男童身穿内衣，蝙蝠侠和超人，歌连臣角。 It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room.它够强，不过，如果捆绑到一个涂料可以，传播涂料对所有四面墙壁一个20 ×二○英尺室。

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. 5 ）你不应该丢baseballs时吊扇是对的。 When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit.当使用吊扇，作为一只蝙蝠，你要扔球了数次前，您会获得一个打击。 A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.一吊扇能打到棒球了漫长的道路。

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan. 6 。 ）玻璃在Windows （甚至双窗格）不停止棒球击中一个吊扇。

7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words, uh oh , it’s already too late. 7 。 ）当您听到厕所冲水及换言之， 嗯哦 ，它的为时已晚。

8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it. 8 。 ）制动液混合与Clorox公司，使烟雾，和很多。

9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old man says they can only do it in the movies. 9 。 ）一6岁男童可以启动消防与燧石岩，即使今年36岁男子说，他们只能这样做，在电影。

10.) Certain Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy. 10 。 ）某些legos会通过消化道的4岁男孩。

11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence. 11 。 ）发挥面团和微波不应被用作在同一句中。

12.) Super glue is forever. 12 。 ）超级胶水是永远。

13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can’t walk on water. 13 。 ）不管有多少jell - O的你把在一个游泳池，你现在仍不能走路用水。

14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O. 14 。 ）游泳池过滤器，不喜欢jell - O的。

15.) VCR’s do not eject PB&J sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do. 15 。 ）的VCR的不退出铅生三明治，即使电视广告显示，他们这样做。

16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes. 16 。 ）垃圾袋不好好降落伞。

17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving. 17 。 ）大理石在气体坦克，使大量的噪音，驾驶时。

18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is. 18 ）你大概不想知道是什么气味。

19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens. 19 。 ）总是看在烤箱之前，你打开它;塑胶玩具不喜欢的烤炉。

20.) The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time. 20 。 ）消防部门在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市有一个5分钟的回应时间。

21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy. 21 。 ）的自旋周期对洗衣机不作蚯蚓头晕。

22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy. 22 。 ）会，不过，猫头晕。

23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy. 23 。 ）猫扔了两次，他们的体重时，头晕。

24.) 80 percent of men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid. 24 。 ） 80 ％的男性谁读了这个会尝试混合Clorox公司和制动液。

Pass this on to your friends, with or without boys.通过这对给您的朋友，有或没有男孩。

For those with no children, this is totally hysterical!对于那些无子女的，这完全是歇斯底里的！
For those who already have children past this age, this is hilarious.对于那些谁已经有子女，过去这个年龄，这是搞笑。
For those who have children this age, this could save a mother’s sanity.对于那些谁也有子女这个年龄，这可节省一个母亲的理智。
For those who have children nearing this age, this is a warning.对于那些谁也有子女接近这个年龄，这是一个警告。
For those who have not yet had children, this is birth control.对于那些谁尚未有子女，这是控制生育。

Keep your wheels on the road!让您的车轮在道路上！

Eileen张爱玲

PS Feel free to add your own nuggets of wisdom gained from your boys.保安局常任秘书长觉得可以自由加入自己的掘金队的智慧，获得了从您的男孩。

No Comments »没有评论»

Welcome to the Southern Gal (Dana) Goes North (Chicago) blog.欢迎您到南半乳糖（德纳）去北（芝加哥）的博客。 Dana is a writer with a great sense of humor.德纳是一个作家与一个伟大的幽默感。 She writes about sacred memories, Southern spaces, recipes, poetry and dieting.她写的神圣的回忆，南部位，食谱，诗歌和节食。 Visit访问 Southern Gal Goes North blog南部加尔云北博客 today.今天。

Keep your wheels on the road.让您的车轮在道路上。

Eileen张爱玲

PS To the other blog who wanted to rent space on USAer this week: Sorry I may only choose one and Dana had been waiting because I was traveling.保安局常任秘书长向其他博客谁想要租金的空间， usaer本星期：抱歉，我只能选择一个和德纳一直在等待，因为我是旅行。 Please reapply next week.请重新下周。

No Comments »没有评论»

Another species is battling extinction in Texas.另一个物种灭绝是战斗在得克萨斯州。 The Attwater’s Prairie Chicken, once more numerous than the buffalo, now number in the 40s.该attwater的草原鸡，一旦越多，比水牛，现在人数在40多岁。 The Attwater’s Prairie Chicken is actually a subspecies of a grouse called the Hearth Hen.该attwater的草原鸡，其实是一个亚种一松鸡称为炉膛母鸡。 The Hearth Hen went extinct in the 1920s.该炉膛母鸡灭绝，在20世纪20年代。

Each spring, males gather to perform an elaborate courtship ritual.每年春天，男性收集执行一个复杂的求爱仪式。 They inflate yellow air sacs and emit a booming sound across the prairies, vying for the attention of the female of the species.他们膨胀黄色气囊和排放蓬勃发展的健全的全国草原，争夺注意女性的物种。 Once silenced, the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken will never be heard again.一旦沉默， attwater的草原鸡永远不会再次听见。 Another unique voice will have been quelled by encroaching urban blight.另一个独特的声音，将已平息了由侵害市区白叶枯病。

Attwater’s Prairie Chickens once inhabited 6 million acres of coastal prairie, from Corpus Christi, Texas, northward to the Bayou Teche area in Louisiana, and inland some 75 miles. attwater的草原鸡，一旦有人居住的600万英亩沿海草原，由Corpus Christi ，德克萨斯州，北上向河口teche面积在路易斯安那州，和内陆约75英里。 Grasses of many species waved in the winds including little bluestem, Indiangrass, and switchgrass.草，许多物种还挥舞着在风包括小bluestem ， indiangrass ， switchgrass 。 Today less than 1 percent of this rich coastal prairieland exists.今天不到1 ％ ，这丰富的沿海prairieland存在。 Rice, oil, houses, ports and canals cover the land once home to many species.米，油，房屋，港口和运河，包括土地，一旦在家中，许多物种。

In the 1960s, the World Wildlife Fund purchased about 3,500 acres of virgin prairie 40 miles from Houston, and the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken had at least one place to call home.在20世纪60年代，世界野生动物基金购买约三五〇 〇英亩的美属维尔京大草原四十○英里由Houston ，和attwater的草原鸡已至少有一个地方，家里打电话。 The land was transferred to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1972.土地被转移到美国鱼类和野生生物服务在1972年。 Today, the refuge is more than three times its original size.今天，是避难的3倍以上，其原始大小。 The problem is, the population is already at the critical point, where the gene pool is just too limited to flourish.问题是，人口已处于临界点，那里的基因库，只是过于狭窄，蓬勃发展。 Attwater’s Prairie Chicken is on the way out. attwater的草原鸡是对的出路。

Why Did the Prairie Chicken Cross the Road to Extinction?为什么草原鸡过马路灭绝？ Because no one cared enough to try and save it until it was too late.因为没有人照顾，足够的尝试，并储存，直到为时已晚。 Do not let this happen to another species.不要让这种事发生在另一个物种。 God gave us stewardship over the other species on the Earth.上帝给我们的管理比其他物种在地球上。 We have failed our God-given mission.我们失败了我们的上帝赋予的使命。

Visit the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge this spring.访问attwater的草原鸡国家野生动物保护区在今年春天。 Maybe you will here the booming voice of the male for the last time.也许你会在这里蓬勃发展的声音，男性为最后一次。 Maybe this will be a good spring and the population will flourish.也许这将是一个良好的春季和人口将蓬勃发展。 I hope to God that is so.我希望上帝是如此。

No Comments »没有评论»

I found a new source for maps of the Texas coast and south Texas.我发现一个新的来源的地图，德州沿岸和南部的得克萨斯州。 Texmaps publishes atlases, wall maps, specialty maps and has a wonderful selection of free maps texmaps出版地图集，墙上地图，专业地图和有一个美好的选择免费地图 . 。 Their digital mapping system is incredible.他们的数字化测图系统是令人难以置信。

We love maps!我们爱的地图！ They hang from our walls like priceless paintings and are covered in fingerprints.他们坑从我们的墙壁一样，无价的画，并在所涵盖的指纹。 In fact, I worked for one of the largest university Geography departments in the US, so I have seen some serious maps.事实上，我工作的其中一个最大的大学地理部门在美国，所以我看到了一些严重的地图。 However, these maps are so far beyond anything I have seen before.不过，这些地图是如此远远超出了任何我所看到的前。 The aerial color infared maps of the Texas coast are incredible (left).空中的彩色红外图德州沿岸是令人难以置信的（左） 。

Take a look at this map of Aransas and Copano Bays采取一看这地图aransas和copano海湾 . 。 The entire picture looks like some exotic jewel and, if you click a square, you can zoom in to almost street level.整个图片看起来像一些异国情调的宝石，如果您按一下的一个广场，你可以通过缩放地图来几乎街的水平。

No Comments »没有评论»