Reply #4: The primary concern is the environmental devastation that is certain to result.

[kestrel91316]

You simply cannot keep greasewood and sage alive if you drop that water table down even 20 feet. It WILL turn it into a complete dustbowl, and the threatened and endangered plant and animal species in the area will suffer, and many other species will likely become threatened or endangered.

Humans simply cannot continue to breed like rabbits, and they especially cannot afford to do so where there is no water and no rabbit food.

Maybe destroying a national park and wilderness areas and their ecosystems works for you. It sure doesn't work for me.

I didn't want to turn this into a flamefest, but support for unthinking rampant and irrational development doesn't strike me as terribly progressive, lol.