John Fleck alerted me to this 'Judge Parker' comic strip. Hmmm...methinks the Judge is tackling the issue of "water farms".
The last panel says:
"A company in Nevada has been slowly buying agricultural properties all over the West."
"So?"
"They're buying the property to gain access to the water underneath."
(Courtesy King Features)
You go, Judge!
"Our society...[should be more] than lower taxes, larger homes, grandiose vacations, material consumption, and gladiator entertainment." - Unknown, Letter to the Editor, Corvallis Gazette-Times, 6 February 2002 [from Bill Robbins, Oregon State University]
Every time I choose to point my finger at someone or something I need to remind myself, which I do not always do, that four of my fingers are pointing back at me. I am a native Nevadan, born in LV during WW2, residing next door in Arizona for the major portion of my adult life. My own crystal-ball reveals that like Arizona, my native state is also aligned to the mantra that $$$ talks, perhaps Arizona learned it from Nevada. I have no doubt that water is the next oil and certainly for LV to continue its phenomenal growth a substantial amount of new water needs to be delivered to the LV basin which has been essentially sucked dry. The SNWA has made no secret it covets the water in both Lincoln and White Pine bounties and is endeavoring to secure both the water rights and the funding to build a pipeline delivery system to the LV valley. That SNWA chooses to turn northeast rural Nevada into its own equivalent Owens Valley, which is sucked dry to serve greater Los Angeles basin in California, to serve the water needs of LV should come as no surprise. They are merely following an age old script that he who has the gold rules, those without move out or die in either case it makes no difference to those who rule…?
Posted by: PAUL F MILLER | Monday, 16 February 2009 at 09:08 AM