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<br /> <br />1303 <br /> <br />Wbile tbe)' //"oI7Y about I/"ater sbortages, <br />. folks ill tbe \l1est alld Soutb//"est luxuriate <br />ill tbe stuff as if tbere 1/'ere I/O tOIllO/TOW. <br /> <br />Drink and <br />be merry <br /> <br />!O!(lf\' .1tflum lobhy Take.J !>maU boat <br />and vou J:hde along the lake to dinner <br />at the .'-lIkado, the rc!>on's lapanc..e <br />restaurant. <br />Some 2.'i0 thirsty mIles to the e.1st <br />sqU3tS the Phoenician Ist:ht:dulcd to <br />open In September 19B81. a S2S0 mil- <br />hun, 650.room luxury resort on the <br /> <br />By Ellen Paris <br /> <br />MARRIOTT'S SEWEn desert re. <br />WTt IS the 891-room Desert <br />Sprm~.. Resort & Sp.1 near <br />!'Jlm SpnnJ,;s, Calif. Here the big at. <br />luetlOn IS 2.3 acres uf !.parkhng lake!>. <br />onc p.Ut oj .....hlch ilm...s Into the eight. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Ilmn(,fl, /""......,., Y'I'"/"/":" ke\f.1f1 {- .Y>tl l'lIlm 1-'I:.....T1. C.,llt <br />Wpqlm Sprlng~ is a d~~rt.1t should ~ lon4sc:ap..d IlkI' oru." <br /> <br />Phoenlx-Scotlsdale border. Here:, [00, <br />there's a l3.rKt: J.:oli coune lake. <br />Thl!> Id\'ISh use 01 Water uk.. many <br />people In the and and water. short <br />Southwest. There have been .....;Ht.r <br />wamtn,e.s m the West lor Years. hut <br />dt'vdopment has proceeded alm\l~t <br />unchecked. In commUmtles lIke 1 uc. <br />~n, Los An,e.des and S.1n Dle,e.o, pt"U- <br />pie build and IplOfe the word that <br />then wells are runmn~ dry, <br />"Palm Spnn,e.s IS a dc..ert. It shllulJ <br />be bodscaped like one, not like dnwn- <br />town Seattle," S.3)'S Robert lkru.md, <br />chalrm.:an oj the Palm Spnngs \"/aler <br />Task FOfl:e. Last year the und.n. <br />,e.rounJ baSin Icallcd an aquJierl thdllS <br />P.alm SpnnJ:s' maIO source oi .....aler <br />lost more than 27.000 acre.leel 01 ......1. <br />ler lone acre.foOl IS aboUl 315,900 I:al. <br />10ns1. That I'>. the to.....n pumped flut <br />about 8.8 billion pllons more Indn <br />,e.0I put hack. <br />Old anyone do an\'thln~r Not thaI <br />You'd notlce. In Mav Indl:.n Wells, IS <br />dusty miles easl of Palm Spnn.!!:s, p\'e <br />Its blcssm,e. to plans [0 build :.n s...oo <br />mlihon resort hlled with, you p.tes..ed <br />It, an 80':'erc l:.ke. No problem. says <br /> <br />"'-~"~- <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />Fl'1l111S Ilt,Ul;u<;r 10 I...,' <br />