Groundwater Foundation calls on Governor
The Groundwater Foundation calls on Governor Heineman and the other gubernatorial candidates to get involved in the water issue and take a leadership role. The governor appointed Water Policy Task Force estimates that the State will need more than $300 million dollars to resolve water issues. This is more than the Low Level Radioactive Waste fiasco. The Task Force is recommending that the State raise property taxes and use the money to pay farmers to not irrigate. The primary problem with this recommendation is that it would result in insufficient water savings to actually solve the problem. In an earlier post Nebraska Citizen pointed out that we believe water will become one of the primary campaign issues in this election. Water is the headline story this week and is likely to remain a major topic of discussion. Should the State pay farmers to not irrigate or are there other solutions that make more sense? How candidates answer this is likely to determine who gets elected.
Tom Osborne has suggested as a possible solution that Nebraska renegotiate the agreement with Kansas.Links to stories about water in the Omaha World Herald, Lincoln Journal, Imperial Republican, and Nebraska Citizen can be found at WaterClaim
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