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The Chosen One - Las Vegas Sun <br />Page 9 of 10 <br />have with getting enough water in SoCal? Their problems are way bigger than ours ... and <br />even with that the powerful environmental community in California is hesitant about <br />desalination - making that a limited option for California to do even for themselves. So if <br />they are only going to do desal in a limited way for themselves why do you think they'd let <br />us do it on their coast? What does that gain them? <br />If anyone thinks Nevada has more political clout than California, they've been tweaking <br />crack too much in their lives. Count the Congressional delegations. And by the way, <br />California doesn't need our money -- not only does California dwarf our political clout, <br />they've got plenty of money to do whatever they want for themselves. <br />By Dav dMorZan <br />6/8/o8 at 6:ol p.m. <br />Suggest removal <br />First, Las Vegas should be charged a reasonable rate for water. Their rates are terribly <br />underpriced based on the TRUE cost of water. Secondly what passes for water conservation <br />in Las Vegas would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetically inadequate. Thirdly, stripping <br />one part of the state's national resources in the name of economic and political convenience <br />should be a no -no learned generations ago in other parts of the country (and right next door <br />in California). Otherwise we run the risk of Nevada enlarging it's reputation as a no -brain <br />state. <br />By The Onion <br />6/8/o8 at 6:50 P.M. <br />Suggest removal <br />I think this is one of the most emotionally charged issues our state has ever dealt with. I do <br />believe that we can do more to conserve in Las Vegas. There are a number of solid studies <br />on where Las Vegas can be more efficient in its water use. <br />Emily Green should receive a Pulitzer based on her first two articles. I applaud her writing <br />style and her research. <br />I think that as the rest of the story unfolds over the next few weeks and the author explores <br />the environmental consequences of the ill- conceived pipeline proposal the readers of the <br />Sun will be able to make an informed decision in opposing the pipeline project. <br />I am PRO GROWTH, but I also see what has happened in this community over the last year <br />and a half with the over zealous developers. Let's slow things down in the housing industry <br />and start focusing our economic growth in sectors that will provide long -term jobs, such as <br />energy and scientific exploration... <br />By odeman <br />6/8/o8 at 7 :35 P.m. <br />Suggest removal <br />In the first aricle it was hinted that some of the people up north got wealthy because of <br />plentiful water. If Las Vegas and Reno and their hard working citizens were not here, <br />Nevada would still be a dirt poor state and those wealthy land barons would be barely <br />scratching out a living. Now it's their time to pony up and they don't like it. Mr. Investment <br />Banker says that someday water will be traded on exchanges. Get Wall Street involved and <br />watch the price go flying high, like gas. As it is now, the supplier sets his price and sells to <br />the consumer. When this stuff is sold on a trading exchange, the pricing is out of the <br />suppliers hands and subject to the whims of traders and speculators,like gasoline. In the <br />meantime they have added staffed trading exchanges, traders, brokers, analysts, market <br />makers, and thousands of paper shuffling pencil pushers to the equation. All of them <br />looking for their little piece of the pie, and yet have done nothing to create or deliver the <br />http: / /www.lasvegassun.com/news /2008 /jun/08 /chosen -one/ 6/17/2008 <br />