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RobM

I've always said the real problem behind the water issues is not Mulroy or the SNWA, but rather weak and ineffective elected officials who refuse to lead and acknowledge there need to be limits to growth in a city in the driest desert on the continent.

Water is the most precious commodity in a desert community and for way too long it has been underpriced in the LV Valley. That said, any price increases should not penalize those who conserve or have low water use. Let the rates impact the most those who use the most water.

Also, the SNWA should immediately be told by its governing board to suspend pursuing the fiscally disasterous $15.5 BILLION pipeline and in-state groundwater development project and instead to study and report back to the board and the public the costs of other more enduring and less expensive in the long term options.

The money currently being spent on the pipeline would go a long way in paying for the needed third straw.

The single largest threat to Nervada's natural heritage is the SNWA pipeline. That is why the Center for Biological Diversity and myself are so passionate about seeing it get defeated.

To further set the record straight, neither the Center for Biological Diversity nor myself have ever opposed a proposed solar facility in Nye County or any where else in Nevada. A further example of Ms Haworth's sloppy fact checking.

If Ms Haworth could see past the tip of her nose, she would recognize that the statements and data I used in my LTE came from the environmental impact statement paid for by the SNWA as a requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act. But Julene and others, don't bother to read that document, it might contradict your baseless opinions.

The pipeline fantasy is a bad dream for Las Vegas tax and rate payers, ranchers, Tribes and rural communities, and Nevada's natural heritage. The now quoted $15.5 BILLION pricetag is understated as it does not included the monitoring and mitigation that would be required of the SNWA, nor the yearly operations and maintenance costs.

Las Vegas needs to face up to the need for growth restrictions and live within our water budget while working to acquire more Colorado River water and water from desalinization plants in Mexico and California.

Of course it would be too much to expect the Ms Haworth and the home builders and development community to understand this obvious fact.