LAME …!

Posted on April 24, 2009 by PAUL MILLER

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Arizona Governor’s Earth Day message: Use water wisely…by Bob McClay/KTAR …April 22nd, 2009 …Arizona Governor Jan Brewer used Earth Day to talk about environmental issues at a luncheon in downtown Phoenix. She is calling on Arizonans to use water wisely. …”My administration has a proposal out there and we call it the three Rs, you know, and basically and very quickly, it’s reducing waste and inefficiency by using water properly and smart appliances and products.” …The governor also advocates using recycled water and remembering the value of water and taking care of our water supply. …She said her administration is also working hard to attract solar businesses to the state. “And we are working with the people outside of the state and people within the state to insure that it’s a lot easier to do business here and making it a good environment to come and set up business here in Arizona so that we can create jobs.” …The governor says Earth Day should serve as a reminder to Arizonans that water is a valuable commodity in our desert climate and should be used wisely.

THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS … I think I am beginning to comprehend how Arizona is able to continuously maintain our “ostrich” position keeping our heads buried in the sand respecting – water – it’s because of “lame” reporting and even “lamer” comments by our Governor.

Hello, Governor, you note …”My administration has a proposal out there and we call it the three Rs, you know” … and then you do not clearly, nor concisely, or understandably delineate what the three R’s are…? Might it be, Governor, since Arizona has no official state-wide enforceable drought management plan – water – is NOT seen as a problem…? As I noted to you in prior writings I must say, your choice to lead our State’s foremost environmental enforcement agency – ADEQ – appears to have baggage respecting how he chose to answer Congress’s questions during his tenure with EPA, so I don’t necessarily expect him to be forthcoming with the citizens of Arizona on those issues relating to our – water – do you…?

I would invite you, Governor, to consider that before the citizens of Arizona, remember us, we’re the ones you swore “to serve and to protect,” can use water wisely as you suggest, we need full, open, honest, timely DISCLOSURE of all information affecting our water.

Withhold nothing, or is that asking too much…?

And get a new speech writer, your Earth Day water message is totally lame.

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… People should never be afraid of their government, government should always be afraid of the people …

…“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world…indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” … Margaret Mead

… “they must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority” … G. Massey, Egyptologist

… “Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstances” …
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And let me be even a bit bolder, I am most willing to present and discuss any water issue with any audience in Arizona where open full disclosure and two way dialog is permitted.

Respectfully submitted,

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Where’s our seat… ?

Posted on April 24, 2009 by PAUL MILLER

Arizona must have role in discussion …The Arizona Republic …http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2009/04/24/20090424fri2-24.html … If you’re not at the table, you’re likely to be on the menu. That colorful image, referred to by Gov. Jan Brewer, sums up why Arizona must stay in the Western Climate Initiative. The group, formed in 2007 to devise regional tools to curb greenhouse gases, might seem irrelevant now that Congress has taken on the issue. It’s not. Participating in the WCI is more important than ever, as Brewer pointed out in a speech to Valley Forward on Wednesday.

THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS …There is I believe an adage which might offer us some guidance in this instance … “to be forewarned, is to be forearmed” … however one might choose to characterize any view presented. My concern is I do not see anything in the current format which promotes or includes or even allows CITIZEN input. Remember us – “we” – are the ones you public servants swore an oath “to serve & to protect”…? We are the ones reputedly you (public servants) represent and from whom it seems to me you take your “marching-orders” as we do not serve you, it is you, who serve us…?

To enable us to make logically cognitive decisions “we” demand a seat at this table as well as full, open, honest, timely DISCLOSURE, any questions…?

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… People should never be afraid of their government, government should always be afraid of the people …

…“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world…indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” … Margaret Mead

… “they must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority” … G. Massey, Egyptologist

… “Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstances” …
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And let me be even a bit bolder, I am most willing to present and discuss any water issue with any audience in Arizona where open full disclosure and two way dialog is permitted.

Respectfully submitted,

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INFORM … it’s really that simple

Posted on April 24, 2009 by PAUL MILLER

By 2050, drought affecting CAP seen …Climate change, other factors may cut flow sharply, study says …By Tony Davis …Arizona Daily Star … http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/290090 …Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.24.2009…Picture the Central Arizona Project as a half-empty canal snaking through a hotter, drier Arizona desert. That image is likely to become a regularly occurring reality by 2050, says a new study released by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. It warns of reduced runoff caused by rising temperatures and drought that could reduce the river’s long-term flow from an average 15 million acre-feet per year to only 11 million to 13.5 million acre-feet annually. That flow could drop even further to as little as 6.5 million to 8 million acre-feet annually if the effects of climate change on the river are compounded by a return to historical flows rather than those seen during the 20th century — generally agreed to be the wettest or second-wettest century of the last millennium.

For the $4 billion CAP, water deliveries could regularly be slashed by one-third to one-half of the current 1.5 million acre-feet if the study’s forecasts prove true. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, enough water to serve up to three families of four for a year. Researchers in Arizona need to do more studies to detail the local effects of climate change on the Colorado River, as well as on the Salt River. Yet the CAP does not take issue in general with the Scripps study’s conclusions. That’s in sharp contrast with last year, when CAP officials rebuked a study from the same Scripps researchers warning of a 50 percent chance that Lake Mead and Lake Powell on the Colorado would go dry by 2021.

THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS … I rise to question either sloppy reporting or deliberate dissemination of “disinformation.” Even ADWR website reports … “Water in the Colorado River first enters the state and the Plateau planning area as storage in Lake Powell and is released to generate power and meet downstream requirements. The U.S. Geological Survey stream gage at Lees Ferry measures the discharge from Lake Powell’s Glen Canyon Dam which is the main flow of the Colorado River into Arizona. The average flow into Arizona before the dam was built in 1963 was 12,923,000 acre-feet per year. Since construction of the dam, the flow averages 10,701,000 acre-feet per year” … how then does the Az Daily Star choose to report current Colorado River flows averaging 15 million acre-feet of water, when reputed experts indicate the actual annual flow is approx 11 million acre-feet, which represents nearly 27% less water.

It is not rational to conclude that Arizona citizens can make honest assessments relating to the plethora of – water – issues “we” face unless “we” are provided full, open, honest, timely DISCLOSURE on all information relating to our water. If government regulators, management of CAP and SRP choose to have a bias in one particular direction, OK, but tell us what your bias is and provide all sides to the issues allowing us the opportunity to deduce our own conclusions based on having all the facts available. It is the responsibility of government regulators as well as the CAP and SRP to – INFORM – and the “we” (in whom all power rightly resides) inform you (public servants and publicly financed water purveyors) the actions we want you to take in our stead. It’s really that simple.

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… People should never be afraid of their government, government should always be afraid of the people …

…“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world…indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” … Margaret Mead

… “they must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority” … G. Massey, Egyptologist

… “Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstances” …
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And let me be even a bit bolder, I am most willing to present and discuss any water issue with any audience in Arizona where open full disclosure and two way dialog is permitted.

Respectfully submitted,

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