Ken Calvert: “Negotiating water agreements is not easy; and we have had numerous conversations about the subject of water over the…”

“Negotiating water agreements is not easy; and we have had numerous conversations about the subject of water over the years. As everyone knows who has been involved in water negotiations, they are difficult. There are conflicts all over the place. One of the concepts that we took when we went down this road was balance; and the Record of Decision that was a difficult Record of Decision to come to a conclusion, part of that was water storage on four projects. There were a lot more water projects that were being considered in that Record of Decision, but it was weaned down in difficult negotiations to really a limited amount of water storage. Over $12 million has been spent to date on looking at the feasibility of these four projects. All of the environmental laws must be met, and that is considerable, before any of these projects could ever become feasible. And even then if in fact they are deemed feasible, you would have to go through the appropriation process. Unless a project is feasible, unless it has the political support in order to build, it will not happen.”