2017-02-04- Water and Population
Description
During conversations with the public, the Citizens Water Advocacy Group (CWAG) frequently hears opposing opinions about our position on population growth: either that we “are ‘no-growthers’ trying to lock a gate across the highway into town” or that we are blind to the threat of growth and that we should lock the gate.
We aren’t no-growth and we aren’t blind. Our official position states our goal: achieve a sustainable water supply – CWAG neither favors nor opposes growth. CWAG recognizes that growth is intimately connected to water, energy, and resource use. Managing that connectedness is complicated, but local government needs to do a better job.
To learn more, view a pdf of CWAG's monthly column in the Daily Courier, published February 4, 2017.