OPINION: 'For sure, shorter showers will help, but a significant use of Arizona water happens when you flip on your light switch,' writes Rick Rappaport, a member of Arizonans for Community Choice Energy.
Daily, the Star urges readers to help find a solution for Arizona’s water crisis. That’s quite a tall order since likely no one reading that plea has the power to divide up dwindling Colorado River water or get a lion’s share for the home team.
People are also reading… In 2019, Science Direct, one of the world’s leading resources for peer-reviewed scientific data, published water consumption data for power generation: “Median number of gallons to produce 1 Megawatt Hour of Electricity: Biomass, 2237; Hydropower, 1316; Oil, 870; Nuclear, 605; Coal, 585; Gas, 160; Solar, 80; Wind, 12.” In Arizona, we get roughly 90% of our electricity from coal, oil, gas and nuclear power. Roughly 10% comes from renewable sources.
Tell me again about the water. The headline of an article in today’s Star reads: “Poll: Water conservation main concern among Arizona voters.” The article goes on to say the vast majority of the Arizona public shows “an unmoving concern about environmental conservation even as other issues become more pressing...
The recent Arizona Senate Bill 1522 and House Bill 2405 only sought funds for a feasibility study of Community Choice Energy, nothing more. But those bills were not even allowed by House and Senate committee gatekeepers to see the light of day — they died in those committees. While reasons are seldom given why any one bill didn’t get a hearing, you don’t have to be a genius to see personal and ideological entrenchment against anything that sounds like a climate issue.
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