[Vision2020] Water Concern?

[Joe Campbell]

No one is using the water issue "as a club to force other ideological visions."

The point is just that the GMA candidates are uninformed about water issues.

Voters need to know which candidates are and which are not informed about
important local issues like WATER. Especially when this can be easily 
conveyed by merely QUOTING the candidates comments during a DEBATE.

--
Joe Campbell

---- "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote: 

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Conservation can never be a bad idea but using the water issue as a club to force other ideological visions on the community where they don't apply (big box ordinances for one example) is disingenuous. I don't believe that the GMA endorsed candidates are suggesting that we make a desperate attempt to suck the aquifer dry before their terms expire. To suggest otherwise is simply partisan politics at its worst.

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "'g. crabtree'" <jampot at roadrunner.com>; "'Joe Campbell'" <joekc at adelphia.net>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>; "'Mark Solomon'" <msolomon at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Water Concern?


>g -
> 
> You suggested that perhaps none of the city council candidates have a firm
> handle on the water situation.
> 
> If this is true, wouldn't it be better advised to err on the side of
> caution? 
> 
> Both Lamar and Ament cited PBAC as authorities on the figures they presented
> yesterday at the CofC Forum.  Krauss cited "something [he] read somewhere"
> and Steed simply wants to remove limitations and controls.
> 
> Your thoughts?
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
> 
> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of g. crabtree
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:33 PM
> To: Joe Campbell; vision2020 at moscow.com; Mark Solomon
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Water Concern?
> 
> I assume the statement that includes "...regarding
> the upper aquifer which if continued to be pumped at current levels could be
> 
> in crisis as soon as 15-20 years from now." is couched that way to leave 
> room for the obvious corollary?
> 
> Could be 50-75 years, could be 115-120 years? Could be we really don't know 
> for sure? Could be that Krauss, Carscallen, and Steed have as firm a handle 
> on the water situation as any of the MCA candidates do.
> 
> g
> 
> 
> 
>