Wouldn't that $14 billion be better spent building additional capacity?

In pursuit of this goal, this movement has obstructed the construction of new dams.

If this current crisis teaches us anything, it must be that there is no substitute for adding supply.

We cannot conserve our way to prosperity when we lose water to the ocean and don't have any water to recycle.

Well then, you shouldn't waste any more time, should you?

I just don't get the warm fuzzies when I hear that the Federal Government is here to help me.

the costs are prohibitive on these projects now. And I look at the Hoover Dam and all the other magnificent dams during the Roosevelt years.

Are we so arrogant or foolish that we think depression, mass unemployment and food shortages cannot happen here again;

Well, that is great, if you don't mind $1,000-a-month household water bills.

wouldn't it be a good idea to bring these costs down by streamlining the regulatory process?

For you, we have heard many examples in this committee of politically driven junk science that is masquerading under the phrase 'best available science,' and I mean stunning gaps in data that--anything that is contrary to predetermined…

Yet captive breeding isn't allowed to be included in many of these decisions involving endangered species, despite the fact it is often infinitely cheaper and more effective than other measures that can end up being ordered.