Utah's Dixie is a huge growth area, but we can already see example after example of bad water management. In a desert area like this, it makes no sense at all to dump scarce water on private lawns. Xeriscape with native plants and you'll find amazing beauty in the desert. Try for Kentucky Blue Grass and we'll all go thirsty.

When we had a weak water year a few years back, Salt Lake City greatly escalated the cost of water to water users. This was done with the specific justification that we were short of water. Now we are looking at an excellent water year. Does anyone think the price for water will now be reduced?

They say they need the Lake Powell Pipeline... yet they keep building golf courses in a desert environment.

$585 million for a pipeline from Lake Powell when the levels of the lake are low with no certainty when, or if, the lake will ever reach capacity again is just a foolish waste of money.

The Lake Powell pipeline plan is tax and spend government at its most flagrant.

Right on! now we need to keep putting in more golf courses to suck up all that extra water!!!

Again, a writer states that the pipeline will cost roughly $585 million. No, it will cost nearly $2 billion with the debt financing that Washington County residents must pay for the Lake Powell Pipeline debacle. Pipeline supporters may argue that when you talk about the cost of a house you don't add in the debt cost in an attempt to make some comparison. But with a house you're actually gaining equity (which makes that debt more palatable--when things work properly!) AND you can sell the house and get out from under the debt. I guess pipeline supporters could argue that Washington County residents can get out of the pipeline debt also -- move somewhere else. Great choice! Also, what's not openly discussed by the proponents is the issue of energy required to pump the water out of Lake Powell--a discussion that may reveal some dirty little facts about where that energy will come from. Can you say "new power plant"?