It's Tuesday again? Already? Damn, how often does the Essefficist have to answer your nagging questions? Nag, nag, nag! You're always after us for the bestest answers to anything that ever crawled up your something-or-other. Don't you think we have better things to do? It's not like we aren't nursing a sore shoulder here! We've been to the chiropractor twice in the past week alone! Do you realize how much ibuprofen we've gobbled up in the last ten days? And how many times we've had to refreeze that ice pack? Damn! Well, anyway, here we are, once again, fighting the pain, digging deep, and giving you the truth. This week, as is so often the case, first water, then urine. Avanti!

Paul Davidson, of SFist's sister site LAist, was apparently a little miffed reading our response to Prune Girl's question last week and wonders, "Why is it that Bay Area folks are so obsessed with water -- primarily LOS ANGELES' water? Maybe there wouldn't be as much of a water possession issue if people in S.F. stopped taking baths so long that it made their toes wrinkle up?"

While technically, the question here is "Why is the Bay Area so concerned about LA's water?" it seems that the real question is why is Paul so convinced that all we ever do up here is watch Chinatown (now playing at the Castro), complain about the Los Angeles Aqueduct and take long baths? Methinks Paul and the 3,694,819 other people who live in the City of Angels doth protest too much. Level-headed Essefficist readers will agree that last week's column betrayed no obsession with water, be it LA's or anyone else's (just a healthy fascination with water's effects on our little piggies), but Paul's question certainly does. And why is that? Let's just say that LA is "a semi-arid desert region with very little native water." Actually, we don't need to say that ourselves because the official website of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power says it for us. So who could blame Paul for being so concerned about where his drinking water comes from?