Quotes by Mitch Basefsky

“The more efficient we are, the better we use each drop of water, the less likely we are to be hurt by a shortage because were going to be able to use the water we do have as efficiently as possible.”

“There is a leak, a slow leak, and its being blue-staked for utility services. As soon as thats completed, well do a repair on it.”

“Weve never had them, even when we had no CAP (Central Arizona Project) water. But we cant say 100 percent, were sure, no restrictions.”

“If we tried to fluoridate now, wed have to find a totally different strategy to make it work, and we dont know if we could find a way thats cost-effective. We do know it would be very expensive to fluoridate on a well-by-well basis.”

“Desert adapted plants, once theyre established, they need very little supplemental water. Some of the other plants that we use in the desert, even if theyre desert adapted, may not be native to this region, and so they may need additional water supplies.”

“Over the next six weeks or so, theyll be inside the pipelines with their electronic equipment and their sounding devices and theyll be testing every foot of this pipeline.”

“Whenever we see clouds at all, whenever we see any rain, there tends to be a decrease in the use. People feel better about life, I guess, when its rainy or cloudy, in terms of the life of their plants.”

“The street is designed to have vehicles driving on top of it, not have pressure coming up from below.”

“The pressure in the system was well below the rated pressure on a pipe of this type.”

“It probably blew out a weak spot. The side of the pipe blew out, rather than it failing at a joint.”