"Droughts are nature's fault; water shortages are our fault."
"Wouldn't that $14 billion be better spent building additional capacity?"
"Isn't this just a shell game?"
"Are we ever going to solve our water shortage without fundamentally reforming the Endangered Species Act?"
"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;"
"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?"
"wouldn't it be a good idea to bring these costs down by streamlining the regulatory process?"
"Well, that is great, if you don't mind $1,000-a-month household water bills."