COMensarations
Thursday, February 23, 2006
A Train Wreck In the Making
Most politicans don’t think beyond their term limitations. And most people all to often rely on them to do the long-term thinking.
As an old adage about politicans goes...
They only hope that their world should last just beyond their departure from it.
That seems to me to be an accurate report, from what I’ve seen of history. And it seems to be the sort of mentality behind HB 1124, Water Judge Approve Fallowing Contracts [HODGE--OWEN]. This bill will, as I understand it, allow people who own water rights to lease those rights to another individual or entity for an agreed period of time.
I’m not exactly sure WHAT the current state of affairs is with respect to water rights and non-useage of such is. I’m not a water lawyer. However, based on what this bill proposes, I get the distinct impression that the current state of affairs is that the holders of water-rights can either use them or sell them. No leasing is allowed. With that understanding, allow me to go into why I think this bill is a VERY BAD IDEA....