Ron Stivers
landscape painter
“Water has gone beyond serious. There has to be something done. But not raising the rates, it has to be managed better. There’s no room to be expanding where water’s needed and there’s no water here.”
Pierson Christensen
student
“I would say so. I think our growth in general is faster than we can actually sustain.”
Kelsey Coyle
TJs crew member
“Holy shit, we are in a drought. It’s hit a limit. We are quite overcrowded.”
Marissa Thomas
student
“With increased population, there’s a lot more food consumption. Meat consumption, too. A quarter pound of meat takes 600 gallons of water. When there’s more people, they need more water to make that food. We just don’t have it.”
This article appears in May 14-21, 2015.