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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Some municipalities in the Phx area have been
requiring developers to water golf courses with
treated greywater.  I have always been amazed that
domestic water here in Mo. is more expensive than in
Phoenix.
I wish that water sale would help my sis in law sell
her lot in Prescott Valley so she would quit
complaining to us how poor whe is. LOL.
Van Dell

--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> Believe it or don't, water out West has now become
> so valuable that 
> Prescott Valley, Arizona is auctioning rights to its
> wastewater, the 
> water that ostensibly recharges aquifers in the
> area. For those not 
> familiar, new development proposals in Arizona must
> prove where their 
> 100-year water supply will come from.
> 
> The wastewater auction bidders will be subdivision
> developers. Tell 
> me again about that real estate bubble.
> 
> Wastewater auction is the next step in state growth
> 
> Shaun McKinnon
> The Arizona Republic
> Oct. 31, 2006 12:00 AM
> 
> Prescott Valley will stretch water supplies to new
> lengths this week 
> when it auctions the rights to some of its treated
> wastewater to 
> buyers who could use it to build subdivisions.
> 
> The auction, the first of its kind in this country,
> will create a new 
> source of water for growth in a part of Arizona that
> has nearly used 
> up its existing reserves.
> 
> Bidding starts Wednesday and ends Thursday. On the
> block is enough 
> water to support nearly 6,000 homes and more, if
> apartments or 
> condominiums are built.
> 
> The treated wastewater won't flow directly into
> homes but will 
> percolate into aquifers, recharging them as wells
> supply the new homes.
> 
> Bidders will determine the final price, but the town
> has set a 
> minimum bid of $28,000 per acre-foot, or roughly 340
> times the cost 
> of Colorado River water in the Phoenix area. An
> acre-foot equals 
> 325,851 gallons.
> 
> Selling the rights to effluent marks a major advance
> in the use of 
> recycled water, which until now has been limited to
> irrigating golf 
> courses or parks.
> 
> If the auction succeeds, it could also help speed
> the transformation 
> of water from a public resource to a commodity that
> is traded, bought 
> and sold on the open market.
> 
>
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1031water-auction1031.html
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