Utah's thirst for water comes with $13.7 billion price tag

It's ridiculous. We tax productive activity so we can spend tens of billions of dollars on these kinds of projects, and then the only thing we're willing to do about water conservation is put up a few billboards saying "gee, it'd More..

I agree we need to keep these systems up and they obviously need to be expanded and probably upsized regularly to reach new housing developments. I think conservation is definitely the thing to do, but it's like putting energy efficient bulbs More..

Think water is a problem today?

Keep in mind that shale oil production requires about 3 barrels of water to product 1 barrel of oil.