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Next, a hearing examining ways to increase water storage and conservation in western states we also heard about water supply infrastructure. Held by a Senate Energy subcommittee, this is an hour. The hearing of the Senate EnergyNatural Resources subcommittee on power and water will come to order. I want to apologize for being tardy. Im trying to be in a few places at once. Thanks for your patience. Throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. The infrastructure took centuries to build. And has allowed our cities to grow and our farms to prosper. Without these dams and canals and reclaim water plants the American West would not be the bread basket or worldwide destination that it is today. It has taken tremendous foresight and major investment to dev ....
Subcommittee on power and water will come to order. I want to apologize for being tardy. Im trying to be in a few places at once. Thanks for your patience. Throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. The infrastructure took centuries to build. And has allowed our cities to grow and our farms to prosper. Without these dams and canals and reclaim water plants the American West would not be the bread basket or worldwide destination that it is today. It has taken tremendous foresight and major investment to develop the Water Systems that are the backbones of our western communities and businesses. They have been great investments. In my home state in arizona, what started as a 10 million federal development in 1903 laid the groundwork for todays phoenix metropolitan area shareholder now contributes 250 billion to the nation in gdp. Earlier i toured all 15 counties ....
It happened about 33 a. M. This is the San Lorenzo River yesterday and at the same time today rising several feet overnight. I thought we had a tornado because it had that kind of hard driving train sort of sound. It was hammering on the roof so hard, it was pretty bad. Reporter and it was no better on the roads. Driving through a heavy downpour on twisty highway 17 can be nerveracking, but try doing it when you cant see a thing. That was scary. At a spot where the pavement turned into a riverbed, the car in front put up is up a rooster tail, it was like trying to steer a sub through a waterfall. It hasnt been easy on anyone up here in the mountains. Just getting around highway 17 and the other lesser highways up here has been very difficult request road closures, mud slides, rock slides, and as you saw it, heavy rain and heavy water on the roadway. Ken, back to you. Scary stuff out there. At least youre dry tonight, len. Thank ....