Interstate Stream Commission decides to divert the Gila River. (2014, November 24). Retrieved December 1, 2014, from http://www.scsun-news.com/silver_city-news/ci_27005125?source=rss
Over the course of the past 10 years or so there has been much controversy over a stream that has run through a valuable piece of land. Conversationalists think that continuing with this project will destroy the land and not be able to get that much water at all. Many other people disagree. They think that getting this water will help with 14000 more acres of water and help save the dry southern part of Arizona. This decision is important because if not made will affect the state largely. New Mexico already has trouble receiving water and now they have to deal with this.
I think that the end decision, to use the water, will be beneficial to the whole state. The benefit outweighs the cost greatly and not going through with this project is dumb. The fact that people want to save only a little bit of land at the cost of a whole population is terrible. When the lives of people are in danger they completely trump land. The water is needed to grow crops, keep people alive and feed other organisms in the area that largely depend on this water that they are trying to take away.