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2019-08-03 CWAG Water Issues Candidate Forum

What are our most important water issues? Are the candidates prepared to set water management policy?

The Citizens Water Advocacy Group hosted its 15th annual forum on water issues on Aug. 3. This year the forum was for for Prescott's mayor and 3 seats on city council.

Conservation, long-range water sustainability, development and water supply, and plans to meet a 2025 target date for “Safe Yield,” (the balance between groundwater withdrawn and returned to aquifers through natural and artificial replenishment), were among the topics discussed. The series of questions for the candidates were prepared by CWAG to prompt public discussion of issues surrounding the continuing overdraft of Prescott area groundwater. The questions, which are posted at cwagaz.org/images/Reports/2019-Forum-Questions.pdf, were provided to the candidates in advance of the forum. Audience members submitted written questions on local water concerns at the event.

The Daily Courier article on the forum is available at dcourier.com/news/2019/aug/06/city-council-hopefuls-delve-water-issues/

CWAG-CF-08-03-19 from CWAGAZ on Vimeo.

DAILY DROPLET

  • "Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
    Mark Udall

  • "Water is the driver of Nature."
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."
    Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1746

  • "...and since flow of information is to spirit what water is to life, we'd best think about how to keep the pipes free and unclogged."
    Raphie Frank

  • "In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
    Rachel Carson

  • "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
    Jacques Yves Cousteau

  • "Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine

  • "Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be separated from water. No water, no life. Period..."
    Robert Fulghum

  • "It's the water. Everything is driven by the water."
    Mike Thompson

  • "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over."
    Mark Twain