Mark Udall actually said...

Water plays a critical role in the production of the energy that powers our society, especially energy derived from fossil fuels.

That does not mean that the federal government should become a water regulator and create winners and losers based on water rights.

There's a well known Civil War Major, one armed veteran, Major Powell who made that very proposal. We're now trying in the West to govern ou...

Doing desalination right costs a little more money than doing it wrong.