La Paz County is running out of water and reckless Arizona officials are sending it to Saudi Arabia

7/27/16

To:
Thomas Buschatzke, Director
Arizona Department of Water Resources

From:
Editor, La Paz County Reckoning

Subject: La Paz County Community Center Meeting, 7/27/16

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Monday, April 11, 2016

We're running out of water, and the world's powers are very worried

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Thomas Buschatzke, Arizona's water director, defended the Saudi farm, saying it provides jobs and increases tax revenue. He added that "Arizona is part of the global economy; our agricultural industry generates billions of dollars annually to our state's economy."

After the meeting, the state approved another two new wells for the Saudi company, each capable of pumping more than a billion gallons of water a year.

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Greetings, Director!

Now, that's just about the best article I've ever read about bureaucratic irresponsibility, ever in my lifetime.  Two-billion gallons equates to 200,000 gallons for every resident of La Paz County -- water lost forever, never to be replaced!

You don't have an argument with me that agriculture brings a lot of money into Arizona.  However, there are many, many other industries that do the same as well, industries that don't suck our aquifers dry.  Tourism and snowbirds are just two examples, and there are many more such as clean tech industries.

We're living in a desert here, for chrissake, in case you've forgotten.  A desest struck by draught for decades now.  Surely you must know that we shouldn't be pumping water out of Arizona, but rather that we should be pumping water into Arizona.  I mean, have you taken a look at Lake Powell or Lake Mead lately?  Are you all so disconnected from nature, the environment, and reality because you spend too much time, passing time, in ivory towers in Phoenix?

The United Kingdom recently voted to exit the EU.  The majority did this because they felt they were being screwed by self-seving bureaucrats in Brussels, bureaucrats who were never elected to office, who could never be held accountable, who were never making decisions favorable for the UK, who never knew anything, and who always behaved stubbornly, condescendingly and impetuously whenever their feet were held to fire.

The last time you guys were out here, you got an earful. Yet you went back to your ivory tower and ruled against common sense, just like the EU always has against the Brits. 

So why have you even bothered to come back?  Is it just to get another earful, go back home and rule irresponsibly again, and piss us all off some more?

If you guys lived out here, and knew that your decision would directly force you to drill a new well at a cost of $25,000, would you still vote to suck your aquifers dry -- just because it brought money into Arizona -- money that wouldn't even go into your own pocket? 

Your irresponsible decision to sell out La Paz County residents for its water, is no different than if a federal bureaucrat recklessly made a decision to divert Arizona's water from the CAP Canal to Los Angeles.

So just admit it!  You're just pawns of the money establishment, mere disciples, willing to genuflect daily so you can keep your jobs, no matter how much it harms children, families, and residents of this great state of Arizona. 

How about doing something constructive for La Paz County -- or for the state, for that matter?  Help us bring sensible industry to our county -- not industries that suck our aquifers dry, for no other reason but the benefit of short-term money at the expense of long-term Arizona!