The recent headline, “St. George not the reason for Colorado River shortages, Mitt Romney says,” astounded me.
No one has ever made that claim, so far as I know.
However, building a pipeline to abstract water from a river that is drying up (see Pat Bagley’s brilliant cartoon) and on which others, for example the Utes and the Navajo, have valid claims, seems perverse, especially when alternative approaches have been shown to achieve the necessary results at far lower cost, and when the financial viability of the pipeline project is seriously in doubt (as far as anyone can tell from the meager information released so far).
Richard Middleton, Salt Lake City
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