Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Government at Work - allocating water
Government seems NEVER to consider or investigate "unintended consequences".
I wonder who's brother-in-law benefitted from this decision...
I wonder who's brother-in-law benefitted from this decision...
Brian Moench reports on the Salt Lake Tribune website:
"Seriously though, the only Utah residents who need to be concerned are those who breathe. Apparently Mulroy figures that if Utah can't have gambling we can at least enjoy casino-like air quality.
The SNWA pumping project will result in likely irreversible loss of critical native vegetation covering a desert expanse equal in size to the state of Vermont. Where water diversion projects like this have been done before in California and other parts of the world, the result has been exactly what was predicted: more dust, more pollution and more disease."
