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Patricia Mulroy: “Perseverance key to our future”

Posted by: Maven on August 14, 2010 at 6:09 am

From the Las Vegas Sun, this commentary by Patricia Mulroy:

“The great American patriot Samuel Adams once said that “the necessity of these times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.”

Adams was speaking of the coming American Revolution, but the same could be said of the daunting challenges facing our community. From the perspective of a water agency, these challenges have been of historic proportion.

Never in recent history has an 11-year drought so ravaged the desert Southwest as the one we are experiencing. Lake Mead, which provides 90 percent of this community’s water, is at record low levels, and one more bad winter in the Rocky Mountains could throw us into shortage conditions on the Colorado River. … “


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August 14, 2010 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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