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<br />B-13 <br /> <br /> <br />002791 <br /> <br />rather limited, Again there are tremendous environmental and social <br />problems with weather modification. I really think that Arizona <br />has got to face up to the fact that they have a limited supply and <br />learn to live with it for a long, long time, maybe forever, <br /> <br />Mr. Valentine. The City of Tucson, or at least 1ts.representatives, <br />appear to have a lot of criticism for CAP water within Tucson, but I <br />understand they are now strong supporters. What caused their change? <br /> <br />Mr, Steiner, I think basically the fact finally sank in, in the <br />Tucson area to what I showed you here on the charts that there really <br />wasn't any way that that area was going to be able to manage in the <br />future absent in importation of water. Some of this early position <br />based on the fact that they thought they had a 300-year supply in the <br />ground or something and they could afford to wait into the future <br />that there may be some big break through in desalting sea water or <br />something, Now, I think that's been pretty well discounted, the <br />experience they have had with some of their wells. Their best pro- <br />ducing wells. The fact that they have finally accepted the fact <br />that if they continue to mine ground water within the urbanized area <br />that they're liable to suffer some serious land subsidence problems. <br />I think a whole bunch of these things, Sol may be better atuned to <br />it then I am. But this is the kind of impression I get from them <br />while sitting in Phoenix and the contact that I have with the people <br />down there. There are still a number of people in Tucson area that <br />don't think Tucson should contract for Central Arizona Project Water. <br />It's interesting to note that before we allocated the water as you <br />indicated here, they kept maintaining they didn't need it. This <br />was official city position that they didn't need the CAP water. This <br />changed right before the allocation and when we turned out the allo- <br />cation and Tucson ended up with a greater percentage than what they <br />had initially many years before asked for. They got a higher percent- <br />age than anyone else did. Because their problem is more acute than <br />anybody else Then they criticized us for not giving them enough. <br />So I don't know, people are people. <br /> <br />Mr, Lopez, Wes, what part does water reuse play in your State <br />water plan? <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br />Mr, Steiner, Ou~ p~a~ ~~d the allocations are based upon almost <br />100 percent reuse of ther'watet. , We are not allocating water to areas <br />that have the pot~ntial ~o Ireule other water. I'm sure you are aware <br />that substantial, in the Phoeh1x Metropolitan Area, that contracts <br />have been entered into to';u~e 1;he effluent from the city to cool a <br />nuclear plant, They have aco~bination of contracts with agriculture <br />and contracts with the power company, In the Tucson area that effluent <br />is, there are a number of possibilities, and a decision hasn't really <br />been reached yet, It appears that the effluent from the Tucson <br />Metropolitan ~rea will be used to.resolve water right problems with <br />Papago Indian Reservation, The Papagos may then turn around and sell <br />it to the mines. But there are really three possibilities: The water <br />