Donald Trump must be quaking in his golf shoes. Acting on a tip, South Florida water managers last Monday night discovered Palm Beach's ritzy Trump International Golf Club sprinkling the greens with water.
Trump probably burns through that kind of chump change in lost golf balls every week.
Look to the right at the national drought map. That ever-enlarging black blotch over Central Florida says the water shortage here is far, far worse than in any other part of the United States. Tampa Bay area plans to build a big reservoir, but that has not happened yet. Tampa Bay area plans to build the country's biggest desalination plant to extract fresh water from saltwater, but construction has not started yet. Tampa Bay's water future is cloudy.