safe and transparent - we never learn

Effluent credit buyer is marketing water…By Ken Hedler …The Daily Courier Monday, February 25, 2008 …PRESCOTT VALLEY - A New York-based company is selling effluent (recycled water) credits that it bought from the town government during an auction this past October. "We will be marketing it," Walraven Ketellapper of Stillwater Resources in Boulder, Colo., said after a Town Council work/study meeting Thursday. "We have had (phone) calls. We have met with the large developers in town" and nearby property owners. "We're trying to deal with those folks," Ketel-lapper said. Ketellapper said before the meeting that his company and Water Asset Management LLC of New York City will merge - with him heading the new company - into Water Resource Group LLC in Boulder. A wholly owned subsidiary of Water Asset Management, Water Property Investors of Port Washington, N.Y., out-bid a group of Prescott Valley developers Oct. 30 for 1,103 acre-feet of effluent credits that the town was selling to finance a water pipeline. Water Property Investors bid $24,650 per acre-foot. Water Asset Management officials have said they will offer to sell the credits to developers seeking a certificate from the Arizona Department of Water Resources for a 100-year assured water supply. Developers within the Prescott Active Management Area, which includes Prescott Valley, need the certificate before local jurisdictions issue building permits. The town's sewer plant indirectly increases the water supply by recharging the aquifer with treated effluent. The buyers of the effluent credits are conducting "transparent" business practices, Ketellapper told the council and management staff. He added that they hope to go online with a website, www.pvwater.com, within a month. Ketellapper attended the meeting to update town officials on the aftermath of the effluent auction. Town Manager Larry Tarkowski said the native of Holland and his business associates are taking part in a "very transparent process." Ketellapper also congratulated town officials for receiving a nomination for a global water award from Global Water Intelligence, a British publication, for the effluent auction. The magazine invited Tarkowski to speak at an annual conference in April in London.
“SAFE” water is defined by government/corporate partnership without your consent…?

“TRANSPARENT” is defined by this same government/corporate partnership, again without your content…?

My understanding of the usual and customary connotations of the English language is appreciably different from the definitions designed to CYA the actions of your governmental officials, who we believe are always action for our long term best interests. I question how they can, when in reality their background is from private sector engineering or academia.

“POOP” water is now acceptable for developers to present your Governor and her ADWR as “proof” they have an assured 100 year water supply. No need for these developers to prove this water will be “SAFE” for you to consume and ingest.

Hey, it’s all about money, just follow the money, like Deep Throat recommended to Bob Woodard in … All the President’s Men….some things never change.

And it appears “we” never learn.