Sounds like the no growth crowd will stop at noting to stop growth, even at the risk of a severe water shortage.

Anytime someone is foolish enough to invoke the specter of "global warming" (newly called "climate change") into discussions of a water pipeline, I'm inclined to vote in favor of whatever the fool is opposing.

Here's my prediction regarding climate change...it will happen. I base that on observations of all the data that indicates that is has happened, for millions of years. Because it has changed in many ways (warmer, cooler, wetter, dryer), I predict it will continue to do so.

With regard to climate change, I am beginning to see that one of the few constants is that there will always be someone who seek advantage from their supposed knowledge of what those changes will be.

Just like gas water will some day be $4.oo plus a gallon if you don't do something about it now. Enivormentalists are making all of us pay.

interesting that news stories keep mentioning the hydroelectric use of the pipeline but always leave out one critical point: Unless St. George is all downhill from Lake Powell, no hills or rises or bumps or mountains, the water has to be pumped. Pumping uses electricity. Unless someone in Utah has figured out how to make pumped water generate more power than is needed to pump it, that means a net loss of power, net cost, not gain.

So there will be ongoing cost, not revenue, from this project, and when homes are built to use all this water -- assuming the water exists -- what then?

By the way, the web site of the project cites the 1922 colorado river compact -- you might keep in mind that that compact requires, by law, that utah deliver a certain amount of water to the lower compact states whether we need it or not.

The electricity generated will be needed to pump the water uphill to Cedar City.

The citizens of the three counties involved will have to pay for this project. It is a tax hogging nightmare that will require all out pitched drives to bring in more people in order to pay for this project if it is not to bury existing residents financially.

I, personally, do not want to be on the hook for tens of thousands in added taxes for this project. Yet it is the tax hogging proponents that want to spend lavishly no matter the cost that paint those who do not want to be forced to pay for the lush golf courses of St. George via increased taxes as liberals and tree huggers. I am an anti-tax conservative...and this liberal spend crazy state may bankrupt the 175,000 people in the three county region who will have to pay for this pipeline no matter what, even if the promised growth does not come in this crashed real estate market.