[Vision2020] Re: Name of this list & re: Water

[Bill London]

Water--
This community has a couple of mutually-exclusive ideas about our water
(meaning the aquifer beneath us).
One --the aquifer water is a resource we can use, and use up.
Two -- the aquifer water is irreplaceable and we should maintain it as is.

That leads us to chase the Naylor Farms proposal out of town, but embrace
the WSU golf course and the green lawn at the Moscow Cemetery.

I am conservative by nature, and want to support the maintenance of the
existing level of water in the aquifer.  It's like money in the bank.  In an
era of major climate change, maybe our children will need it.  So, I say
leave it there and adjust our lives to preserve it.

And therefore, I see no need to water the lawn at the Moscow Cemetery.  I
have been to all the public cemeteries in Latah County.  Only a few are
irrigated.  I do not think the beauty or reverence of the cemeteries are
determined by irrigation.  I think this Council's special deal on cheap
water for the cemetery is foolish.  The cemetery district officials should
not have made that request.
BL




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nils Peterson" <nils_peterson at wsu.edu>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:38 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Re: Name of this list & re: Water


> I also would like to see the list take a fresh direction.
>
> I believe it has a pretty wide readership, and think its both a way of
> getting community information shared, but also the readership has a pretty
> wide set of perspectives and can offer a variety of constructively
critical
> eyes.
>
> Tom Ivey raised an interesting topic: water. He jumped ahead a step in the
> discussion, by implying that we have a water shortage problem that we
> actually need to do something about.
>
> Can we develop a bit of consensus that we have a problem, and what it is,
> and we wish to address it?
>
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