Remember our tantrums awhile back over the deal the Town of Payson made with Chaparral Pines to supply C.C. Cragin water for its golf course for 49 years - and then pretend it was not potable water anyway - and then pretend said water could be sucked back up out of the ground and resold? Remember that?
If you needed any proof that water is a precious commodity in the Southwest, you'll want to read a front page story in today's Arizona Republic headlined: "Water fears rise as Lake Powell drops."
The story begins:
"Water-conservation groups warned Thursday
of drastic cutbacks in water releases from Lake Powell into the lower
Colorado River because of drought conditions, but state officials and a
Central Arizona Project spokesman sought to downplay alarm over
shortages."
Don't know about you, but I still maintain that providing potable water to a gated community golf course for 49 years in the middle of a nasty drought is really dumb and really shortsighted. And it's insulting to Rim Country residents to play games with the truth as the mayor has done without being challenged by a local newspaper that should be presenting both sides of a story like this.
Click on azcentral.com to read the story or pick up a copy of today's (Aug. 16) Republic. To subscribe to the Republic, the Rim Country's best newspaper value, call 1-800-332-6733.
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