9367 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9367
• Author: Colorado Water Workshop.
• Title: Proceedings
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Colorado Water Workshop July 22-24, 1992.
• Copyright Material: NO

or less historical accidents. Phoenix is a great example -- here, in
the midst of the desert, people water Kentucky bluegrass, fill their
swimming pools, and run air conditioners 24 hours a day. Why is that?
Is it right that we have huge concentrations of populations in places
like Phoenix, Las Vegas and southern California, where there is not
the water to support them. I think you are right in two respects.
First, we must consider the shear numbers. Secondly, we must consider
where we have chosen, whether by historical accident or economic
circumstances, to concentrate those populations.

Question: John, your comment started me thinking. I am an economist,
and I think that on one hand we are becoming poor. I would have to
exclude water attorneys from that category, of course. However,
philosophically speaking, I would rather be very poor but still be
able to walk around and appreciate a river. While I cannot afford to
fish in it, it is still there and I can appreciate it. I think the
equivalent of bankruptcy would be for a city to pipe that water and
completely destroy the river. I think that is the difference between
being poor and being bankrupt. I also have a question for Carroll.
Let me see if I understand you correctly, did you say that you were
formulating new rules and regulations that would be a reflection of
the Secretary of Interior?

Carroll Multz:
of the federal

No, the Secretary of Interior would be a reflection
view.

Question: But you are creating a new set of rules of regulations,
that is correct?

Carroll Multz: That is correct.

Question: Who is doing that?

Carroll Multz: The Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.

Question: That would then be a reflection of the Secretary of
Interior's will.

Carroll Multz: Not necessarily, I am saying that the Department of
the Interior would have to carry out the policies of the federal
administration. In other words, that would currently be the Bush
administration.

Question: The next Secretary of Interior would then not be bound to
those rules and regulations, correct?

Carroll Multz: That depends on how deeply entrenched we are. If they
are like any other agency's rules and regulations, they would be
inherited by the next generation.

Question: I do not have a question, but I wanted to advise Carroll
that not all proj ects are federal proj ects. When the federal
government endeavors to create a program that involves private water
companies and you ask for a tripartite participation among the

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