Note To Presidential Candidates
October 31st, 2007Only a few of us here in Nevada are wildly passionate about nuclear waste.
But we are all passionate about water.
We get about 4% of the water going past us on the Colorado River. About three quarters of the rest is used for agriculture on the Mojave Desert. These allocations date back to when Hoover Dam was built.
If the federal government would allow Nevada to purchase some of the rights to the 96% from those who own them today, it would immediately resolve the largest crisis facing our community. We’re not asking for eminent domain or anything… we just want to be able to buy some of those downstream farms for market prices and redirect their gallons to our people.
It would be a win-win all the way around, and it would avoid the planet-scarring environmental ruin (not to mention fiscal ruin) that we’re about to wreak by running a 250-mile pipeline up into Ely and cleaning out their water.
A candidate who offers to shepherd this small legal change through the federal legislature will win Nevada.
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Sounds like a win-win solution to me. Good thinking.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
This common sense plan with the pre-existing infrustucture to implement it makes a hell of a lot more sense than the goofy-ass pipeline BS we’ve heard about. Especially since those farmers are probably being subsidized by the government NOT to plant or sell their crops.
November 8th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
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November 13th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
With the problem being a water shortage and with a drought existing, why won’t our County Commissioners or those charged with this problem enact a building moratorium on residential properties?
We have so very many foreclosure properties, existing new homes, residential rentals and development continues like there is no tomorrow. Slums and abandoned properties will result if unbridled residential building continues. Already our police and fire departments are taxed to the utmost yet,,,’build on’ seems to be the catchword of the day!