chooglincharley

Mistake me if I'm wrong, but Marines don't instruct their own to compromise/negotiate/agree to terms with their 'opponent'; how and/or why do you believe you are qualified to represent a constituency if you have been trained to replicate and exacerbate a problem that is well documented in Washington?

a simple answer I have gathered: the costs of desalinization far outweighs that of purchasing someone else's water and building an aqueduct to convey that water to your state.

I am from Upstate NY, off of Lake Ontario. I lived in Denver, CO for 6 years and was introduced to a whole new perspective of water; hell, water law is unheard of in the northeast. I travelled to NM, AZ and Cali as a budding golf course designer and saw such inefficient use of water throughout those three states (with golf courses as a prime example, although they were frontrunners in water conservation and reuse).

With California previously purchasing rights to other state's water, how does the state you live in help our evergrowing problem of the mis-use of water in semi-arid and arid climates?

Denver had laws regarding the amount and time of water use for residential lawns; they allow for the reuse of gray water for irrigation, but don't allow for the easy use of capturing water for reuse as it is the rights to someone down stream. How do we solve this issue in an environment that would greatly benefit from alternative sources of irrigation water (rain harvesting) since everyone out there believed they needed a green lawn like their counterparts in the northeast?