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. <br> <br> _DJA<br><br><b><i>Nils Peterson <nils_peterson@wsu.edu></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Decker and Chasuk have opened related discussions on economic and population<br>growth. Perhaps those are impossible to separate from the question of water,<br>but I'd like to ask that someone else lead those discussions as new threads.<br><br>We have several issues hanging out:<br>* Marginal cost of new water resources<br>* Fiscal impact of conservation on the City & water rates (fixed & marginal<br>costs)<br>* Water
budget, paying for new uses of water by conserving on current uses<br>* Pressurized irrigation<br>* East Moscow water treatment plant<br>* And where to you stand: must conserve, painless conservation, don't<br>conserve<br><br>Plus a wiki page to compile our information<br><br><br>On 4/24/06 11:06 PM, "Matt Decker" <mattd2107 @hotmail.com=""> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Nils,<br>> <br>> I'm all ears. What would you suggest we do? Nils you said "Make changes in<br>> current policy and procedure that aim to conserve the<br>>> aquifer by changing personal and collective behaviors".<br>> I would open too consideration, without the anti growth aspect of it all. If<br>> we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children here in<br>> Moscow Idaho we need to figure out if A. We have a water issue. B. how to<br>> solve is reasonably. C. do it so we can maintain who we are as Moscowanians.<br>> <br>> There should allways be growth. To
ignore this(not saying you or others are,<br>> just stating) will be the day this town becomes haunted by ghosts.<br>> <br>> matt<br><br>Chasuk replied:<br>On 4/24/06, Matt Decker <mattd2107 @hotmail.com=""> wrote:<br><br>> If we are going to continue to grow and have a future for our children here in<br>> Moscow<br><br>I hope that this isn't a naive question. It certainly isn't meant<br>disingenuously. But here it is: why is growth important? A town<br>isn't a corporation, in a business sense, so we don't have<br>shareholders to pay or a CEO. Therefore, what is the benefit of<br>growth? For myself, Moscow is the perfect size; that's why I live<br>here (amongst other reasons).<br><br>I guess I am anti-growth, if growth means increased congestion and<br>more crime and more anonymity.<br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since
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