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Burns' bill will aid effort to save the San Pedro

The Arizona Daily Star

A bill signed into law on Wednesday reflects the difficulties of life in a desert where competing interests squabble eternally over a small supply of water.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Burns, R-Tucson, is the most recent attempt to come to terms with the water needs of Fort Huachuca, an Army post, and Sierra Vista, the burgeoning city adjacent to the base.

Both entities want to grow, and both need water to make that possible. The problem, which Burns' bill valiantly seeks to resolve, is that every gallon pumped out of the ground eventually depletes the amount of water in the already threatened San Pedro River.

Posted by Editor at June 22, 2007 06:59 AM

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