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Please add your name to the petition for clean water today請將您的姓名，以信訪為乾淨的水今天 . 。

Benefits of Clean Water 的好處，乾淨的水

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.美國人作出估計18.0億人次去捕魚，游泳，划船，或享受其他活動在水的目的地，他們判斷是清潔和安全的足夠為這些活動。

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，體育漁民用了超過557000000天捕魚民族的，並花了一些360億美元的商品和服務，以支持他們的捕魚活動。 （ 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)這360億美元的直接開支為捕魚，反過來又產生了另一種1020億美元在購買整個經濟和1.1萬個就業機會與福利，對當地經濟的情況下釣的地方。 （ 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.該450億美元的商業捕魚和殼牌捕魚業，取決於乾淨的水，以維持漁業和提供的產品是可安全食用。 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)業界僱用25.0萬人收穫超過100億磅的魚類及貝殼類動物從大湖地區，墨西哥海灣，普捷灣健全，和其他水體。 （ 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.製造商使用約130000億加侖水1年。 （ 4 ） ，而製造業務，差別甚大;幾乎所有需要一個可靠的消息，乾淨的水生產的目的，冷卻，或作為一個不可或缺的要素，在產品。

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)軟飲料製造業單獨使用超過12億加侖的水，每年生產的產品發電超過540億美元的銷售額。 （ 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.其他的好處包括增加價值shorefront性質，收入，地方政府從市中心沿線的發展riverfronts和增加使用泳灘，從清潔沙灘，和減少疾病，由水性疾病導致更大的生產力的勞動人口。

* 54 percent of Americans believe clean water is a right not a privilege. * 54 ％的美國人相信，乾淨的水是一種權利不是一種特權。
* 90 percent of Americans believe that a federal investment to guarantee * 90 ％的美國人相信，一個聯邦的投資，以保證
clean water is a critical component of our nation’s environmental well-being.清潔的水是一個重要組成部分，我們國家的環境福祉。
* 91 percent of Americans are concerned that America’s waterways will not be * 91 ％的美國人擔心，美國的水道將不會
clean for their children and grandchildren.清潔，為他們的子女和孫輩。
The Luntz Research Companies, February 2004該luntz研究公司，於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.上述資料是摘自該報告的國家清潔水信託基金-原則，效率和有效的設計，由丁一魯賓，壩c onsutling組。

Please add your name to the petition for clean water today請將您的姓名，以信訪為乾淨的水今天 . 。

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1. 1 。 US Fish and Wildlife Service, 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Outdoor Recreation, US Department of Commerce, Washington, DC (October 2002).美國魚類和野生生物服務， 2001年全國統計調查結果顯示，釣魚，打獵，和戶外康樂，美國商業部，華盛頓特區（ 2002年10月） 。
2. 2 。 American Sport Fishing Association, The 1996 Economic Impact of Sport Fishing in the United States,美國釣魚運動協會， 1996年的經濟影響，釣魚運動在美國， 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.美國環境保護署， 流動資產：一個夏天的角度上的重要性，乾淨的水，以國家的經濟 ，環保局- 800 - - 96 - 002 ， 1996年5月，小六。
4. 4 。 US Bureau of Census data cited in US EPA, Liquid Assets , p.10.美國人口普查局引用的數據，在美國環保局， 流動資產 ，第10頁。
5. 5 。 US EPA, Liquid Assets , p.10.美國環保局， 流動資產 ，第10頁。

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Things I’ve learned from my Boys (honest and not kidding): 事情我已經學會從我的男孩（誠實，而不是在開玩笑） ：

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. 1 。 ）一景大小waterbed擁有足夠的水，以填補2000平方米 ft. house 4 inches deep.內務英尺4英寸深。

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. 2 ）如果您噴霧頭髮噴霧劑對粉塵bunnies和運行超過他們與滾子葉片，他們可以點燃。

3.) A 3-year old Boy’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant. 3 ） 3歲男童的聲音高漲， 200多名成年人在一個擁擠的餐廳。

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 ）如果您鉤狗的皮帶超過吊扇，汽車是不夠有力旋轉四二英鎊男童身穿內衣，蝙蝠俠和超人，歌連臣角。 It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room.它夠強，不過，如果捆綁到一個塗料可以，傳播塗料對所有四面牆壁一個20 ×二○英尺室。

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. 5 ）你不應該丟baseballs時吊扇是對的。 When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit.當使用吊扇，作為一隻蝙蝠，你要扔球了數次前，您會獲得一個打擊。 A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.一吊扇能打到棒球了漫長的道路。

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan. 6 。 ）玻璃在Windows （甚至雙窗格）不停止棒球擊中一個吊扇。

7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words, uh oh , it’s already too late. 7 。 ）當您聽到廁所沖水及換言之， 嗯哦 ，它的為時已晚。

8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it. 8 。 ）制動液混合與Clorox公司，使煙霧，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歲男童可以啟動消防與燧石岩，即使今年36歲男子說，他們只能這樣做，在電影。

10.) Certain Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy. 10 。 ）某些legos會通過消化道的4歲男孩。

11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence. 11 。 ）發揮麵團和微波不應被用作在同一句中。

12.) Super glue is forever. 12 。 ）超級膠水是永遠。

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的你把在一個游泳池，你現在仍不能走路用水。

14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O. 14 。 ）游泳池過濾器，不喜歡jell - O的。

15.) VCR’s do not eject PB&J sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do. 15 。 ）的VCR的不退出鉛生三明治，即使電視廣告顯示，他們這樣做。

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

17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving. 17 。 ）大理石在氣體坦克，使大量的噪音，駕駛時。

18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is. 18 ）你大概不想知道是什麼氣味。

19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens. 19 。 ）總是看在烤箱之前，你打開它;塑膠玩具不喜歡的烤爐。

20.) The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time. 20 。 ）消防部門在德克薩斯州奧斯汀市有一個5分鐘的回應時間。

21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy. 21 。 ）的自旋週期對洗衣機不作蚯蚓頭暈。

22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy. 22 。 ）會，不過，貓頭暈。

23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy. 23 。 ）貓扔了兩次，他們的體重時，頭暈。

24.) 80 percent of men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid. 24 。 ） 80 ％的男性誰讀了這個會嘗試混合Clorox公司和制動液。

Pass this on to your friends, with or without boys.通過這對給您的朋友，有或沒有男孩。

For those with no children, this is totally hysterical!對於那些無子女的，這完全是歇斯底里的！
For those who already have children past this age, this is hilarious.對於那些誰已經有子女，過去這個年齡，這是搞笑。
For those who have children this age, this could save a mother’s sanity.對於那些誰也有子女這個年齡，這可節省一個母親的理智。
For those who have children nearing this age, this is a warning.對於那些誰也有子女接近這個年齡，這是一個警告。
For those who have not yet had children, this is birth control.對於那些誰尚未有子女，這是控制生育。

Keep your wheels on the road!讓您的車輪在道路上！

Eileen張愛玲

PS Feel free to add your own nuggets of wisdom gained from your boys.保安局常任秘書長覺得可以自由加入自己的掘金隊的智慧，獲得了從您的男孩。

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Welcome to the Southern Gal (Dana) Goes North (Chicago) blog.歡迎您到南半乳糖（德納）去北（芝加哥）的博客。 Dana is a writer with a great sense of humor.德納是一個作家與一個偉大的幽默感。 She writes about sacred memories, Southern spaces, recipes, poetry and dieting.她寫的神聖的回憶，南部位，食譜，詩歌和節食。 Visit訪問 Southern Gal Goes North blog南部加爾雲北博客 today.今天。

Keep your wheels on the road.讓您的車輪在道路上。

Eileen張愛玲

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.保安局常任秘書長向其他博客誰想要租金的空間， usaer本星期：抱歉，我只能選擇一個和德納一直在等待，因為我是旅行。 Please reapply next week.請重新下週。

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Another species is battling extinction in Texas.另一個物種滅絕是戰鬥在得克薩斯州。 The Attwater’s Prairie Chicken, once more numerous than the buffalo, now number in the 40s.該attwater的草原雞，一旦越多，比水牛，現在人數在40多歲。 The Attwater’s Prairie Chicken is actually a subspecies of a grouse called the Hearth Hen.該attwater的草原雞，其實是一個亞種一松雞稱為爐膛母雞。 The Hearth Hen went extinct in the 1920s.該爐膛母雞滅絕，在20世紀20年代。

Each spring, males gather to perform an elaborate courtship ritual.每年春天，男性收集執行一個複雜的求愛儀式。 They inflate yellow air sacs and emit a booming sound across the prairies, vying for the attention of the female of the species.他們膨脹黃色氣囊和排放蓬勃發展的健全的全國草原，爭奪注意女性的物種。 Once silenced, the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken will never be heard again.一旦沉默， attwater的草原雞永遠不會再次聽見。 Another unique voice will have been quelled by encroaching urban blight.另一個獨特的聲音，將已平息了由侵害市區白葉枯病。

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的草原雞，一旦有人居住的600萬英畝沿海草原，由Corpus Christi ，德克薩斯州，北上向河口teche面積在路易斯安那州，和內陸約75英里。 Grasses of many species waved in the winds including little bluestem, Indiangrass, and switchgrass.草，許多物種還揮舞著在風包括小bluestem ， indiangrass ， switchgrass 。 Today less than 1 percent of this rich coastal prairieland exists.今天不到1 ％ ，這豐富的沿海prairieland存在。 Rice, oil, houses, ports and canals cover the land once home to many species.米，油，房屋，港口和運河，包括土地，一旦在家中，許多物種。

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世紀60年代，世界野生動物基金購買約三五〇 〇英畝的美屬維爾京大草原四十○英里由Houston ，和attwater的草原雞已至少有一個地方，家裡打電話。 The land was transferred to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1972.土地被轉移到美國魚類和野生生物服務在1972年。 Today, the refuge is more than three times its original size.今天，是避難的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.問題是，人口已處於臨界點，那裡的基因庫，只是過於狹窄，蓬勃發展。 Attwater’s Prairie Chicken is on the way out. attwater的草原雞是對的出路。

Why Did the Prairie Chicken Cross the Road to Extinction?為什麼草原雞過馬路滅絕？ Because no one cared enough to try and save it until it was too late.因為沒有人照顧，足夠的嘗試，並儲存，直到為時已晚。 Do not let this happen to another species.不要讓這種事發生在另一個物種。 God gave us stewardship over the other species on the Earth.上帝給我們的管理比其他物種在地球上。 We have failed our God-given mission.我們失敗了我們的上帝賦予的使命。

Visit the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge this spring.訪問attwater的草原雞國家野生動物保護區在今年春天。 Maybe you will here the booming voice of the male for the last time.也許你會在這裡蓬勃發展的聲音，男性為最後一次。 Maybe this will be a good spring and the population will flourish.也許這將是一個良好的春季和人口將蓬勃發展。 I hope to God that is so.我希望上帝是如此。

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I found a new source for maps of the Texas coast and south Texas.我發現一個新的來源的地圖，德州沿岸和南部的得克薩斯州。 Texmaps publishes atlases, wall maps, specialty maps and has a wonderful selection of free maps texmaps出版地圖集，牆上地圖，專業地圖和有一個美好的選擇免費地圖 . 。 Their digital mapping system is incredible.他們的數字化測圖系統是令人難以置信。

We love maps!我們愛的地圖！ They hang from our walls like priceless paintings and are covered in fingerprints.他們坑從我們的牆壁一樣，無價的畫，並在所涵蓋的指紋。 In fact, I worked for one of the largest university Geography departments in the US, so I have seen some serious maps.事實上，我工作的其中一個最大的大學地理部門在美國，所以我看到了一些嚴重的地圖。 However, these maps are so far beyond anything I have seen before.不過，這些地圖是如此遠遠超出了任何我所看到的前。 The aerial color infared maps of the Texas coast are incredible (left).空中的彩色紅外圖德州沿岸是令人難以置信的（左） 。

Take a look at this map of Aransas and Copano Bays採取一看這地圖aransas和copano海灣 . 。 The entire picture looks like some exotic jewel and, if you click a square, you can zoom in to almost street level.整個圖片看起來像一些異國情調的寶石，如果您按一下的一個廣場，你可以通過縮放地圖來幾乎街的水平。

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