I think we need a water infrastructure bank in the future to be able to do these projects.
But many of the traditional tribes do not get to be at the table, unfortunately, and that is what I am finding out.
And how much water has been brought online, due to the Reclamation's various conservation actions?
We cannot gamble away our water on oil shale speculation. We cannot risk our farm economy.
We have squandered enormous amounts of money and precious time proving that the policies of the 1970's do not work, and ...
The Majority will argue that the environmental regulations have hindered construction facilities in the West. That may b...
If we are looking for solutions to our water problems, and for certainty for our communities, we must have the full cons...
The biggest impediment to dam construction is limited federal funding.
It is the government's responsibility to alleviate and prevent that shortage.
Clearly, we need to make the same kind of investments that our parents and our grandparents made in the 20th century.
The Bureau of Reclamation has built over 600 dams and reservoirs in the last century, but two-thirds of them were built ...
The testimony that we--the Subcommittee has received goes far beyond that, and points to the regulatory excesses that ar...
Would you consider a project that costs $1,600 per acre-foot to be economically attractive?
If the gentleman will yield before he yields back his time, I would answer by suggesting that he read the full written t...
from 1979, Reclamation has not completed a single major dam, if you define that as over 250,000 acre-feet of storage cap...
The gentleman's time has expired. He will have to let it go at that. But we will have another round.
You are not building anything right now. That is the problem, is you guys spend countless dollars and endless time study...
I take a little exception to your comment about comparing the fish, the wild fish versus hatchery fish, to children born...
