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Letter: Water bill won’t help conservation

Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 | 8:42 a.m.

Ben Grove's Dec. 7 article, "Ensign not giving up on water-saving bill," is confusing me.

The proceeds from the sale of public land to build still more homes -- that will consume even more of the precious water resource -- somehow finances the removal of grass for homeowners and businesses that will conserve this very same precious water resource.

This is, at best, a "break even" plan that does nothing for a serious conservation effort the persistent drought requires. It exposes an incongruity between what might be expected from our leaders and what actually occurs.

Public land sales equals sprawl, plain and simple, and sprawl equals additional water consumption, long after the last strip of sod is removed.

George Job

Henderson

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