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Decrease consumption of any. water and decrease the amount of waste and. the target is to keep as much water as possible on the property and to have infiltrate right here so to not lose it to the river and then not to lose it to the ocean. because there's a shortage of sweet water we need to keep that within our system we need to keep it on the island we need to retain it push it into the ground and use it here where we need it most and right here what you can see is that there's a lot of water coming down from the slide to push the people that are coming down in the tubes down the slide with ...

Consumption of any. water and decrease the amount of waste and. the target is to keep as much water as possible on the property and to have infiltrate right here so to not lose it to the river and then not to lose it to the ocean. because there's a shortage of sweet water we need to keep that within our system we need to keep it on the island we need to retain it push it into the ground and use it here where we need it most and right here what you can see is that there's a lot of water coming down from the slide to push the people that are coming down in the tubes down the slide with a lot of ...

You've been hearing all about the reservoirs. the mayor went on and on about them and how it was the right thing to let the water out. well, in fact, now we know that it was, because the reservoir called addicks, already to the top of the overspill, anyway, and is just running over the top. had they not let it out anyway, it would be going over without any resistance whatsoever. get you here. this, john, is addicks reservoir. about 20 square miles, 65 billion gallons -- and it's green -- right here. because it's a park. there's never water in here. it's not really a reservoir. it is a catchmen...

A couple bay ddays. break it down. houston, closer perspective across the region. of course, talked about the buffalo bayou. there's houston. meander with the buffio bayou back towards the reservoir, about 30 miles back. a couple -- dams. across this area. put this together. holding 130 billion gallons of water but are typically bone dry. it's a catchment. baseball parts, dog parks, you name it. scattered across the bottom of this catchment. down tofor a closer perspective. built 70 years ago. a lot of dirt holding it up. privately owned. no government regulations maintaining them. tremendous ...

Thank god we have a catchment that catches people and institutions that step up and suck in these patients free, take care of them for free. i'm having a problem right now where my patients don't want to sign up for insurance. interns here, i couldn't get them to sign up today. they don't have insurance. because they're not used to paying for insurance. they feel invincible. they don't want to. there's a person who doesn't have a computer it's hubristic to tell them to go online. it's a massive cultural problem as well as political and institutional and insurance problem. let's all keep in min...