 Poster: A snowHead
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A federal appeals panel have blocked Arizona Snowbowl’s plan to make artificial snow by spraying treated wastewater on mountains that Indian tribes consider sacred. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel overturned a lower court ruling from January 2006 that would have let the ski resort proceed with the snowmaking and other upgrades. ...Thirteen tribes, along with environmentalists, had appealed the decision. They said using wastewater, no matter how clean, would offend deities and spiritually contaminate herbs and other plants used for medicine and religious ceremonies.
In the decision, Judge William A. Fletcher wrote that water purity was central to the Indians’ practices and that the plan would violate the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act, which is intended to protect the free exercise of religion.
For more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/us/13peaks.html?ex=1174363200&en=6b4697eee42d8a55&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS
We have reported: http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=414570#414570
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Isn't all water essentially treated waste water?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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incredible.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Marc t'Mosher, interesting. I've just done a back-of-an-envelope calculation. Suppose you produced a pint of, ahem, "waste water". After a time, it is evenly distributed through all the oceans of the world, from which you extract a pint from some random spot. You will scoop up more than a billion molecules from your original waste. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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This has got to be about more than 'waste water' surely?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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laundryman, 1,000,000,000,000 of my molecules? Just from the initial pint!
Are you taking the waste water? 
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 nope - them molecules are pretty damned small!
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Actually, I meant US billion (they seem to the only type these days  ) so you can knock off three zeroes!
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This will probably get settled out of court, I wonder how much firewater they will accept this time
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