Your statement, in the next to last paragraph, "Scientific study on this issue will not show that the installation of ponds protects the nation's water supply (actually the contrary is probably true)" is an interesting one. Where could one find information related to that statement?
It seems that the subject of wildlife/waterfowl habitat loss is constantly in the media. I've often wondered what effect the addition of all these individual ponds have had on this issue but never gave much thought to the effects (negative) on the nations water supply.
