From: Diana Durazo <DDurazo@exchange.co.pima.az.us>
To: "'Jean Harris'" <jean.harris@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: RE: Green Valley
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:47:50 -0700

Supervisor Bronson asked me to forward her response to you:

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Harris,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with this office about the future of golf courses. The Board of Supervisors is committed to long term wise water management. We are making every effort to get existing golf courses to use reclaimed water rather than ground water. [One must interpret this as politspeak. It does not mean that golf curses using drinking water are no longer permitted or are being taken out; it only means that effort is being made to slowly evolve the developers' behavior. Afterall, ¿why worry now?, the whole area is designed with the idea of becoming unsustainable within a lifetime --the law stating that there must be a forseeable 100 year supply of water for any development contemplated, at whatever future energy cost that might imply, and which was first applied in many areas 20 years ago. And we know how money can fudge those figures.] Pima County's economic future depends upon wise use of its water resources.

Sincerely,
Sharon Bronson