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Joint Legislative Water Committee to Begin Looking at Oklahoma Water Needs
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:25:17 CDT
State Representative Phil Richardson has been appointed as one of the co-chairman of the Joint Legislative Water Committee, which will begin holding meetings this Wednesday, August 17. Richardson says the goal of the committee is to look at the results of the Water Resources Board's five year study on water in Oklahoma.
Richardson says the committee hopes to really think about how to adopt the state water plan in Oklahoma over the course of the committee's eight meetings. Ultimately, Richardson says he hopes the meetings will lead to some sort of legislation on water in the upcoming year.
One of the topics to be discussed during the committee meetings, according to Richardson, is the issue of infrastructure concerning water. It is estimated that it will cost the state $2 billion over the next 50 years to address the issue of infrastructure of the distribution of water across the state says Richardson.
Of course, agriculture is one area that uses a lot of water throughout the state and Richardson says he hopes the committee will continue to make agriculture a priority for water utilization. To keep agriculture in Oklahoma alive and viable, it is going to require a tremendous amount of water says Richardson.
Click on the LISTEN bar below to listen to the rest of Ron Hays and Representative Richardson's conversation on the goals and upcoming meeting of the Joint Legislative Water Committee.
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