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State leaders talk water conservation Page 10f2 .... . f aZcentratcom ,,& Email this article Print this article Most popular pages Click to send Click to print Today I This Week State leaders talk water conservation Jan. 7,200512:00 AM Jake Flake, incoming chairman of the Senate Natural Resources and Rural Affairs Committee: "The only people I've seen who know there is a drought is those people who make their living from water. "Frankly, I think there's only going to be one way we're going to get people to conserve water, and that's (raising the) cost." Sandy Bahr, conservation director, Grand Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club: "We were talking about this the other night - sprinklers running in the pouring rain. "The big challenge is people think there isn't a problem, that we don' have to think about how fast we're growing, how much water we're using on a per capita basis. "Water issues are always tough because there are a lot of power struggles." Herb Guenther, director, Arizona Department of Water Resources: "One of the toughest things when you're doing drought planning is that when you're in a drought, everybody's anxious to do it, but when it rains again, people let it go. As we said when we started this, even if we have to swim to the meetings, we're going to get this done." Janet Napolitano, governor, state of Arizona: "I've talked to a number of legislators, and the legislators, particularly those involved with the major committees that will get this, understand that one year of average rainfall does not a drought-cure make. And that really, even if we weren't in a drought, we should be dealing with the issue of water in light of the kind of growth Arizona has had and anticipates." George Renner, president, board of directors, Central Arizona Project: "We have, with our technology, turned it into a much more dependable supply, yet we still lack the ability to take full advantage of storms when they come through. There always is good that comes out of it. There have been contributions to the http://www . azcentra1.comlphp-bin/ c1icktrack/print. php ?referer=http://www.azcentra1.coml...l /24/2 005