junior rights - colorado river - your future

www.mohavedailynews.com ……….Feds to tout plan for colorado river …By Judith Kohler/Associated Press …Wednesday, June 6, 2007 8:59 PM PDT …EXERPTED ….
DENVER - Federal officials plan to publicize their preference for managing the Colorado River in the face of ongoing drought sometime this month as part of the lead-up to a final plan expected by the end of the year.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is working on a final environmental impact statement on dealing with water shortages on the river that provides water to seven Western states and Mexico.
The final guidelines, expected to be released in September, will also look at coordinating operations between Lake Powell, the upstream reservoir in Utah, and Lake Mead in Nevada. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, who oversees the Bureau of Reclamation, will make a final decision by the end of the year.The draft impact statement, released earlier this year, featured five management options but didn't say which one the federal agency preferred. The draft documents usually identify a preferred alternative.

What drought …? According to Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano there’s no drought in Arizona as she has certainly chosen not to address it – publicly…!

What happens behind closed doors reflects adherence to her “unsustainable” economic mantra of unrestricted growth.

We have no published publicly supported “state-wide” drought plan where “we” – that’s you and me – have been a party at the negotiating table.

Hey, not to worry, the Governor’s ADWR and ADEQ assure us all subdivisions and users of water have an “assured” 100 year water supply, which is both “safe” and of sufficient quality to consume, though in many locales water purveyors are all dipping their straw into the same aquifer.

That Arizona’s rights on the Colorado River are junior (inferior) to those of our neighbors, California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico does not even register on the radar of corporate controlled mass media and reported to Arizona citizens.

But then is that a surprise…?