The US Is Parched and ‘Lake America' Won't Quench It

This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the worst-case destination of Bloomberg Opinion's opinions. On Sundays, we look at the major themes of the week past and how they will define the week ahead. Sign up for the daily newsletter here. In 2003, my wife and I bought a small bungalow on the North Fork of Long Island with a view of the calm, cool and crowded waters of Peconic Bay, an estuary connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the 8 million people who live on the largest island in the contiguous US.1 Yes, we were the typical Manhattanites doing something we had absolutely no business doing: purchasing an 80-year-old clapboard farmhouse prey to salt air, nor'easters and East Coast winters (not to mention Tick Armageddon). So, for two decades it has been slowly falling apart.