WHAT'S more important to YOU? Quality or growth? What's more important to YOUR elected officials?
Do YOUR leaders really think lawn watering is the reason we're in the shape we're in? We have reports of dead grass and trees from here to the Red River.
Remember earlier this week when a nonprofit did an investigation on Congress and their family connections. WHAT do you think they are they paid to say?
WHO controls YOUR water? What will the other cities do? Like always, wait and see what Fort Worth does. No offense, guys, but you need to pick another role model.
Guess the latest Irving Mayor has been brought into the game. The last one tried to get water for the city instead of waiting on the Tarrant Regional Water District. All the way to the Supreme Court to get water from Oklahoma.
"Mayor Price and I have been talking about lots of initiatives together, and water is one of them," Rawlings said. "I think water conservation is probably the most important issue we have in the next three decades. We cannot continue to grow without water, and I want to continue to grow."
The district provides raw water to 98 percent of residents in Tarrant County, including Fort Worth, Arlington and Mansfield.
"The goal is to reduce excessive outdoor watering and water waste, especially during peak summer months when rain is scarce and demands are high," said Linda Christie, the district's government and community relations director.
The (Tarrant Regional Water) district provides raw water to 98 percent of residents in Tarrant County, including Fort Worth, Arlington and Mansfield.
Officials with Colleyville and North Richland Hills said they haven't discussed the issue. North Richland Hills spokeswoman Mary Peters said the city will likely follow the lead of Fort Worth and the authority on the issue since it buys water from both entities.
The Fort Worth Water Department has 30 wholesale customers, including Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Southlake, Hurst, Burleson and Crowley. Its contract requires customers to follow whatever rules the city implements itself.
The mayor of Irving, which tried unsuccessfully to broker its own water deal with Hugo, Okla., said the city is ready to work with others.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear a lawsuit that resulted from the proposed deal, upholding a lower court's ruling that Hugo couldn't sell water without Oklahoma's permission.
The people say:
Ok, I can understand wanting to conserve water and even using the twice a week plan. BUT... what about all the Government buildings, Commercial properties & City landscapes that (even when "WE" were in restrictions last year) continue to water on a daily basis, not only in the heat of the day (outside of City required times) but also over watering to the point that there is a large stream running down the road.
What's required for us should be required for the Government and Commercial properties also.
"We cannot continue to grow without water, and I want to continue to grow."
Sounds like a mindless comment to me. At what point does growth reduce the quality of your life?
Maybe if Rawlings stopped and thought about it, he would realize that the lack of water ITSELF is trying to tell him something, that growth only works when there are reasonable resources to sustain it.
Promoting growth with one hand, while restricting resources with the other, is a bad idea. There has to be a balance.
"We cannot continue to grow without water, and I want to continue to grow." Why must we continue to grow? If you are conserving water, only to expand your growth, then you are just delaying the problem. If we are under water restrictions, then there should be building restrictions as well. No new house without the destruction of an equivalent number of sq ft. 7 billion people. Just stop already.Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2...
