From the desk of District 1 Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter: Testifying before Natural Resources, Energy, and Water Committee
Dear Editor, I’ll be testifying on Mar. 16 before the Arizona Senate Natural Resources, Energy, and Water Committee in strong support of HB2389: S/E River Water Transfer (Dunn), which prohibits huge hedge funds back East and elsewhere from further commoditization of Colorado River communities’s water to sell to the highest bidder in Central Arizona. Mohave County and the entire Colorado River community are currently fighting the latest such 4th priority Colorado River water transfer attempt by GSC Farm (a subsidiary of Mass Mutual out of Boston) which is pushing to transfer 2,033 acre-feet (662 million gallons) to the Town of…