Gary Wockner: 'Will U.S. and Utah taxpayer money be used to save the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake? Or will it be used to simply fuel more growth while our lakes and rivers collapse even faster?'
Municipalities and water districts that rely on the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake will likely respond to these state and federal incentives. At the same time, it’s important to critically analyze any proposed conservation program – and associated financial payouts – to see what the actual result may be.
For example, will the program really help save the Colorado River or Great Salt Lake? Or will the program simply facilitate more growth in the number of houses and businesses that put a strain on all of Utah’s lakes and rivers?ran a story about the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline in Southern Utah with the title, “Romney warns St. George development could stop without better water conservation.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney perhaps accidentally hit on a familiar theme in Colorado River politics, that the only way to continue to support the growth economy – including supporting rapid human population growth – is to “conserve” water thereby stretching and spreading that water thinner across the landscape to quench the thirst and lawns of more and more people.— the local Washington County newspaper — with a story titled, “St.
Finally, in recent months many news stories in the Salt Lake region have focused on the drying of Great Salt Lake and solutions to the problem. The Utah Legislature is proposing to pay farmers to not grow crops, and Gov. Spencer Cox has put a stop to new diversions of water out of the lake.
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