Over the past 10 years, summer vacation trips have centered around camping, canoeing, fishing and whitewater rafting in the Upper Delaware Basin, particularly the 50 miles along the upper Delaware river just northeast of Port Jervis, N.Y. Besides being very beautiful by itself, the historical signs posted along the river somewhere revealed that this area gets enough rain, snow, etc., to supply fully 10 percent of the nation's water. Which is why the Upper Delaware is one of the important sources of water supply to none other than the Big Apple, New York City.
So after the mid-term 2006 elections, with the hard-won victories of Democrats, I was hopeful that Democratic policies would at least begin to reverse some of the extremely negative policies under the Bush Administration--including environmental ones (gamble with a jump!)
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