[Vision2020] Other topics-- was: Water. Where do you stand on theissue?

[Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor]

You know, you don't have to trash the toilets, an easy way to make them use
less water is to put a brick or two in the tank. The red ones work well.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
  Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:38 AM
  To: Nils Peterson; Matt Decker; vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Other topics-- was: Water. Where do you stand on
theissue?


  Instead of over flowing Latah's landfills with endless numbers of toilets,
why not A) Require new home developers to connect homes with a fresh water
pipe, and a reclaimed water pipe for the toilet and outdoor watering. and/
or B) Retro fit existing toilets to use less water. Creating excessive waste
to save water is not thinking about the Earth.

  _DJA

  Nils Peterson <nils_peterson at wsu.edu> wrote:
    Decker and Chasuk have opened related discussions on economic and
population
    growth. Perhaps those are impossible to separate from the question of
water,
    but I'd like to ask that someone else lead those discussions as new
threads.

    We have several issues hanging out:
    * Marginal cost of new water resources
    * Fiscal impact of conservation on the City & water rates (fixed &
marginal
    costs)
    * Water budget, paying for new uses of water by conserving on current
uses
    * Pressurized irrigation
    * East Moscow water treatment plant
    * And where to you stand: must conserve, painless conservation, don't
    conserve

    Plus a wiki page to compile our information


    On 4/24/06 11:06 PM, "Matt Decker" wrote:

    >
    > Nils,
    >
    > I'm all ears. What would you suggest we do? Nils you said "Make
changes in
    > current policy and procedure that aim to conserve the
    >> aquifer by changing personal and collective behaviors".
    > I would open too consideration, without the anti growth aspect of it
all. If
    > we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children
here in
    > Moscow Idaho we need to figure out if A. We have a water issue. B. how
to
    > solve is reasonably. C. do it so we can maintain who we are as
Moscowanians.
    >
    > There should allways be growth. To ignore this(not saying you or
others are,
    > just stating) will be the day this town becomes haunted by ghosts.
    >
    > matt

    Chasuk replied:
    On 4/24/06, Matt Decker wrote:

    > If we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children
here in
    > Moscow

    I hope that this isn't a naive question. It certainly isn't meant
    disingenuously. But here it is: why is growth important? A town
    isn't a corporation, in a business sense, so we don't have
    shareholders to pay or a CEO. Therefore, what is the benefit of
    growth? For myself, Moscow is the perfect size; that's why I live
    here (amongst other reasons).

    I guess I am anti-growth, if growth means increased congestion and
    more crime and more anonymity.

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