[Vision2020] Palouse Water Resouces: Was (no subject)

[Joe Campbell]

Great post! Until we KNOW how much water we have, selling it seems  
irresponsible.

Joe Campbell

On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as I have determined, the amount of water that can be  
> extracted from the aquifers serving the Palouse before shortages  
> become a major problem, is not well known.  The recharge rate is  
> debatable.  More scientific study of this issue is required.  If  
> someone knows of more recent definitive scientific information on  
> this issue, perhaps they can post it.
>
> Making short term profit facilitating depletion of a critical  
> resource via supplying it to out of state developments is desirable  
> to some.  What is needed is regional management based on science  
> based knowledge of maintaining long term viability of the aquifers.   
> A patchwork of differing laws and regulations in different states,  
> counties and cities may not address the environmental reality of  
> where water comes from and how the resource is distributed by  
> natural processes.  The argument repeated over and over that Whitman  
> County will use the water anyway, so Moscow may as well make a  
> profit off selling it, even if it does deplete the aquifer, ignores  
> potential long term economic and environmental problems for both  
> Whitman and Latah Counties.
>
> I know nothing about the law in regards to enforcing regional  
> management of aquifers.  But I am reminded of the cooperative  
> efforts in fish management in international waters, to prevent long  
> term depletion of fish, which hurts all nations involved in  
> fishing.  If the Palouse aquifers become critically depleted, both  
> Latah and Whitman Counties may lose.
>
> Ted Moffett
>
> On 3/10/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> I invite everybody to browse, read, view, and/or download the wide- 
> ranging
> videos, resordings, and documents available at:
>
> The Palouse Basin Water Summit 2008 (October 7, 2008)
>
> http://www.moscowcares.com/PBWS2008
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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