Mum's the Word || Managing water proving a monstrous task

JL
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:47am, first published September 11 2019 - 7:00pm
TOO MUCH: There are enough demands on our waterways without throwing in people's desire to make a quick buck.
TOO MUCH: There are enough demands on our waterways without throwing in people's desire to make a quick buck.

Something feels off about making money from water. It is such a fundamental basic need in the community and so many of the crops we grow rely on irrigation.

There's a line in the 1999 movie The Mummy in which star Brendan Fraser's character comments that "these men are desert people. They value water, not gold".

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Jody Lindbeck

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