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  • From: Loren Davidson <listmail@lorendavidson.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Decentralized Waste Water Treatment
  • Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 16:18:45 -0800

At 11:29 AM 12/19/04 -0700, Scott Pittman wrote:
Now the pueblos are insisting that since they have aboriginal water rights to the water in this valley that the non Indians should cap their wells and go onto a central water utility that receives its water from the Rio Grande rather than the aquafer that we are currently using - thereby giving the pueblos control of water for the development of more casinos/resorts and golf courses and selling water to the city/county of Santa Fe for development.

Our response is that we live in the desert and that we all have to share the water resources in a thoughtful and conserving way (no golf courses) and that the water should remain in the water shed and not treated as a commodity.

Without meaning to cast any aspersions on attempts to use water wisely and fairly...does anyone else find it slightly ironic that when it's the *pueblos* who want to exploit and control the water resource, all of a sudden whites are interested in conservation and "thoughtful use?"

I don't doubt Scott's intentions or motives. I've read way too many of his writings to have anything but an abiding respect for him. But I wonder if perhaps some of the folks he's allied with in this aren't doing it because they're peeved *they* didn't get control of the resource *first*. Or how amenable they'd be to "thoughtful and conserving" use if the moccasin was on the other foot.

Bemused,

Loren


Loren Davidson Earth steward, healer, singer/songwriter
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