from 1979, Reclamation has not completed a single major dam, if you define that as over 250,000 acre-feet of storage capacity

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 studying, and you are now spending absolutely no time or funding to actually construct these facilities.

I take a little exception to your comment about comparing the fish, the wild fish versus hatchery fish, to children born at home versus the hospital.

There is truly enough water for everyone and we can meet both our agriculture and municipal usages.

We ought to look at ways in which we can do a better job.

I urge the Bureau to do a better job in looking at them.

We have squandered enormous amounts of money and precious time proving that the policies of the 1970's do not work.

It is the government's responsibility to alleviate and prevent that shortage.

This shift of purpose is fast becoming a direct and imminent threat not only to the prosperity of the West, but to our very ability to support our population.

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 in the first 60 years of its existence.

The biggest impediment to dam construction is limited federal funding.

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 have squandered enormous amounts of money and precious time proving that the policies of the 1970's do not work, and we now face devastating water shortages as the cost of that lesson.

We cannot gamble away our water on oil shale speculation. We cannot risk our farm economy.