On the Public Record blog: Go for the contracts, not the infrastructure
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on February 9, 2010 at 8:36 amFrom the On the Public Record blog:
“I think this approach, suing to re-consider the project water contracts is exactly the right approach for people who want to limit north-south water transfers. I haven’t been sympathetic to claims that “plumbing is destiny,” that if you build a huge canal, it will inevitably be used to divert huge amounts of waters. My unsympathetic reaction has been, ‘but that ship has sailed.’
Project contractors are allowed to take huge amounts of water under their contracts and the time to fight that was whenever the contract re-negotiations were.
Don’t prevent that big gulp of water by making 20 million people depend on extremely vulnerable infrastructure for their drinking water. Fight that by going after the contracts themselves. Looks like some groups are, so I’m glad*. … “
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