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San Diego Water Storage and Efficiency Act of 2005

Date: March 8, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Natural Resources


SAN DIEGO WATER STORAGE AND EFFICIENCY ACT OF 2005 -- (House of Representatives - March 08, 2006)

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Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Madam Speaker, H.R. 1190, introduced by our colleague, Chairman Duncan Hunter from California, is the first step in expanding increasingly scarce water supplies for thousands of citizens in the San Diego area.

This bill authorizes the Bureau of Reclamation to assess the feasibility of constructing an intertie system between four reservoirs. Several of those reservoirs are significantly below capacity in most years. Once interconnected, water could then be transported to the unused space.

Growing populations and reduced water storage opportunities require us to make efficient use of the supplies that we have, and this bill does just that. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this noncontroversial and important legislation.

Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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