to help those communities transition into new industries rather than allowing them to dry up, John Berggren, a water policy analyst for the nonprofit Western Resource Advocates.
, grown widely throughout the basin, calling it a greater liability to Utah than a benefit. The crop consumes 68% of Utah’s water allocation and provides only 0.2% of the state’s annual gross domestic product, the paper reported. But at the minimum state and federal officials should consider the issue and consider whether there’s a way to keep the benefits of Colorado River water within the basin, or at least the country, Berggren said.
Please tell me you are NOT threatening Ag some someone else can have a swimming pool, a massive water fountain or municipalities down the line will not demand the same conservation of their citizens we've had to live under.
Yeah for golf courses and grass for expensive subdivisions build in the desert.