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- Sound water policy, like all public policy, begins and ends
with people.
- We will resolve our problems only through collaboration,
compromise and innovative thinking. Engineering is a means,
not an end.
- Cooperation and collaboration produce more effective and
longer lasting results than an adversarial approach.
- Solutions are not real solutions unless they are
politically acceptable.
- Water demand will always outstrip water supply. Therefore,
we should manage our water system for sustainability,
treating water as a natural resource rather than as a
commodity. This model places a premium on comprehensive
planning and management; water quality and reliability
improvements; more efficient water use and reuse; water
demand management; and increased public participation and
education. It does not negate market forces or exclude
economic incentives.
- We should first and foremost protect existing water user
security, quality, and reliability.
- When we examine infrastructure proposals, we must assure
the principles of cooperation, cost effectiveness,
environmental sustainability, and equity for all. We should
modernize for efficiency and conservation.
- Conservation can cost-effectively stretch uses of available
water and help preserve groundwater.
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