Why Kari Lake?

If for absolutely nothing else, you should consider voting for Kari Lake because of what it would mean for Arizona’s ongoing water crisis. Kari even calls it “perhaps the single most critical issue facing Arizona today” on her official campaign website.

Kari has been working with community leaders and experts all across Arizona on a regular basis to address our water issues. Kari states “short term, that means increasing our storage capacity on the Salt & Verde River system by improving and expanding our dams and reservoirs, capturing storm runoffs, lining and covering our canals, and properly managing the forests and wildlife areas surrounding these critical rivers to prevent forest fires which cause significant damage to the river ecosystem. We also have to support responsible transfer of water rights, especially working with the various tribal nations throughout Arizona. Lastly, we need to expand effluent capture and purification.”

Kari notes how we do many great things with water already – managing it extraordinarily well – we need to plan for the future and take care of our local environment. We need to develop new and sustainable sources of water.

Kari recommends that the legislature look into desalination – something that has been extremely successful in Israel.

Kari also recommends that we explore pipelining freshwater from the Missouri or Mississippi River basins.

Kari says “These are proven technologies. They work. What will the cost be? Right now, we don’t know. In either case, the cost and scale will require Arizona to forge agreements with the federal government, other Western states, and Mexico. Whatever the price tag ends up being, it will be far less than the cost of a future without the water we need to survive.

We can’t do it alone, but we can do it. And the next Governor of Arizona must be the leader of this fight. 

The upside is potentially enormous. An ample source of new water would carry with it the possibility of completely transforming the economies – and ecology – of this region. With plentiful water and extraordinary amounts of sunlight, Arizona would have about the best growing conditions of anywhere on the planet. Israel is rapidly turning the Negev Desert into one of the world’s great agricultural areas, we can do the same. But the benefits wouldn’t stop there. Reducing our dependence on existing groundwater and river resources will drastically improve the environmental conditions of those watersheds and our region as a whole.”