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Enlist the tree huggers

Be sure to make fun of them when you ask them for their help. That always works, and they should be on your side in no time.

One has to decide what is a better use of that water -- growing some low-value agriculture or generating significant profits for entertainment purposes on the streets of Las Vegas? Where's the real money being generated? Las Vegas! We can get our food from South America or China. Trying to grow food in the desert was a bad idea to begin with! Who ever came up with that idea?

Good grief! Can't you do it by yourself?

Yo Tracy, This dirt worshipping tree hugger has been fighting this from day one!

Enlist the tree huggers ?.

Where do I sign?.



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is it here?.

Where have Tree Hugger and Mormon Dem gone when you need them??? Guys? Gals?

Economics | 5:52 a.m.

This isn't just about generating the maximum income possible.

To tree-huggers like myself... when you mess with a whole eco-system like this (even if you don't appreciate the high desert eco-systems) it's asking for ecological problems we DON'T fully understand yet and possibly don't want down the road.

If we keep sticking straws into these underground aquifers and sucking them dry for entertainment profits... We will someday be sorry.

This is a perfect example of a person who puts man's greed as Priority #1... and his disregard for how his actions affect nature and long term health of the natural systems the Earth provides almost LAST.

are too busy trying to save the whales over in Japan.

Why should we have to give our water to another state when we need all we can get.Then they will say we are in a drought and can't use or water.

frist sending water to los vegas is not bad but to ask maney for it is bad idea

Why should we give our water away when we need it as well? But then again when there's money involved no one else's oppinons matter!!..

well if you are so worried about the water and it is so easy to prevent it, based on your idea, why don't you go and find an animal, fish or whetever that can be affect and leave the tree huggers save the whales over in japan?

Since the water originated in Nevada, one could say that Nevada could just build a dam and recover the water before it gets to Utah. Of course, water rights between States isn't quite that simple.

Overall, I would say it is unlikely to be a viable solution for the long term. The aquifer will likely fall (possibly helped along by lower rainfall) and then we'll see if Las Vegas will be willing to give up the water.

There are some sensitive species that will be affected-species nobody appreciates because you can't eat them or sell them. The least chub and spotted frog depend on springs in the area, and the springs would be the first to dry up if the aquifer is over-harvested.

I understood the aquifer straddled the Nevada-Utah border. (Am I mistaken in this?) If this is true, then Utah has a right to say how the water is used as well as Nevada.

"Anonymous | 12:26 p.m." " abdi | 12:25 p.m" and others,

#1. We're not giving our water away. They are taking it... from wells drilled on the Navada side. The problem is, the aquifer it draws from is in both States (sort of like Lake Tahoe). Would YOU be OK if Nevada decided to drain Lake Tahoe... as long as the pumping station was on the Navada side of the lake? Of course you wouldn't. It's a similar issue.

#2. Utah's not asking for money. There's no proposal to sell the water or the water rights. Either Navada has the legal right to pump it... or they don't. There's no proposal to sell it.

At least know what you're posting about.

cant the spotted frog, or whatever species you are so emotional about, just build its own resevoir, or habitat? After all the rabid environmentalist nuts consider them the superior species, that is why they worship them. .... silly me, I keep forgetting that political power or profit, and private property takeover would not be neccesary if the "endangered species" had to adapt and survive on its own.

Why can't the species with superior thought processes. opposable thumbs, and the ability to care for others as well as themselves provide habitat for those who are almost extinct? Remember it is at our hand that those animals are nearly extinct. Biodiversity is crucial for our species,as well as all others, to survive and thrive.

In this day and age it's amazing that there really are people--like Ms. Booth, "Why", et al-- who think maintaining bio-diversity is some sort of frivolous elitist hobby; and are too simple to figure out that everything is connected to everything else. I guess you think tuna grows in little cans from a magic tuna tree, right? No need to protect fish (or whales) in Japan--I git my fud from the locul Wal-Mart, and THEY have plenty of it!

As my good friend Ed used to say, "visitors to the Beehive state are always welcome, but are advised to set their watches back 50 years." Sometimes Ed meant that in a complimentary way, but he would have used it here to mock those who can't understand that when one species dies, it means many more less famous ones already have, and many others are on their way, including some that you proudly myopic know-nothings may care about.

You go right ahead, I am not going to stop you. Just count me out, and absolutely don't compel me to participate in your little scheme, and selected moral activity or thoughts. "Remember" there are many "hands" involved in the cycle of life, and extinction is not solely dependant on or caused by human actiivty. According to much of your self serving scientific theories, many species were extinct on this planet long before there was a sniff of a human being. As much as you arrogantly want to believe it, "biodiversity" is likely NOT crucial for our species "to survive and thrive".