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  • 1-Salt Lake City is Utah’s Top Water Hoarder gaming Utah’s water against the public interest. Salt Lake City has hoarded so much water it operates a profiteering multi-million dollar “surplus” water business in three counties outside Salt Lake City boundaries. (SLC)
  • 2-Utah’s Top Water Hoarder is Salt Lake City–$53 Million in Water Sales with $20.4 Million in “surplus” water sales outside SLC boundaries in Salt Lake County, Wasatch County, and Summit County (SLC)
  • 3-Salt Lake City with more than ample water and multiple water surpluses: $20.4 million in “surplus” outside SLC boundaries with applications for approx. 20 hydro-electric dams in Salt Lake County canyons (SLC)
  • 4-Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City & Sandy: SLC controls 5 of 7 board seats. 110,000 acre-feet of pending water applications to build a 370′ dam in Big Cottonwood Canyon, and a 410′ dam in Little Cottonwood (SLC)
  • 5-Provo River Water Users Association: SLC controls 8 of 11 board seats. $1 Billion Water Company controlling Deer Creek located in Pleasant Grove, UT controlled by SLC. (SLC)
  • 6-East Jordan Irrigation Company Bluffdale-Draper area. SLC has 2 board seats and controls East Jordan Irrigation Company. (SLC)
  • 7-Board of Canal Presidents–Controlled by SLC 2 of 5 board seats which controls Utah Lake water levels (SLC)
  • 8-American Water Works Association (AWWA) Intermountain Section located inside the offices of Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake & Sandy. SLC controls AWWA. SLC is the AWWA Chair.(SLC)
  • 9-Town of Alta, Utah owns NO WATER–7 of 7 Alta Planning Commission seats controlled by Salt Lake City Water Deptartment–Where tourists are in and Alta land owners are out to “protect the watershed” (SLC)
  • 10-Why are Salt Lake City water rates 107% to 340% higher than Orem City water rates? (SLC)
  • 11-Why are Cottonwood Heights, Utah water rates 176% to 496% higher than Orem City, Utah resident water rates? (SLC)
  • 12-Why are Salt Lake County water rates 176% to 496% higher than Orem water rates? (SLC)
  • 13–How much excess profit does the Salt Lake City Water Dept. make from its Salt Lake County customers? Up to $5 million per year, or $17.13 per month per “surplus” water customer???(SLC)
  • 14-Contact Salt Lake City Council Members–When will SLC’s Water District build a 370′ Dam in Big Cottonwood Canyon, and a 410′ Dam in Little Cottonwood Canyon? (SLC)
  • 15-Salt Lake City clogs the courts with water cases to disrupt the transferability, to put competition out business, and to concentrate the control of water in SLC hands. (SLC)
  • 16-Rain Barrels Are Now Legal after May 11, 2010.
  • 17-Utah Governor’s Office Water Reform Recommendations
  • 18-Utah State Legislative Water Reform Recommendations
  • 19-Utah Division of Water Rights Reform Recommendations
  • 20-Utah County Mayors et al Letters Re: Salt Lake Area 57–Requesting compliance with Court Ordered Water Audit (adjudication)
  • 22-WFC: Water For Canyons Property in Salt Lake County–Equal Access to Water
  • 23-Legal & Ethical Questions, Personal Stories, RS 2477
  • 24-Water Law & Allegations
  • 25-Utah County Farmers’ water is regulated by hydrological science. Salt Lake County Farmers’ water is regulaged by politcal science.
  • 26-Over Charging of Water Rights by Cities
  • 27-Board of Water Resources
  • 28-Water Conservation & Watershed (”Walletshed”) Protection
  • 29-Salt Lake City Council Public Comments–Salt Lake City claims to have no water inventory. Really? (SLC)
  • 31-Top Stories
  • 32-Water Web Links
  • 33-Contact Your Utah State Water Official
  • 34-Contact Utahwater.net–Term and Conditions of Use–All Rights Reserved Copyright September 2010

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