Mitch Basefsky Quotations

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 it's rainy or cloudy, in terms of the life of their plants.

There is a leak, a slow leak, and it's being blue-staked for utility services. As soon as that's completed, we'll do a repair on it.

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

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

We've never had them, even when we had no CAP (Central Arizona Project) water. But we can't say 100 percent, we're sure, no restrictions.

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

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 we're going to be able to use the water we do have as efficiently as possible.

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

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

If we tried to fluoridate now, we'd have to find a totally different strategy to make it work, and we don't know if we could find a way that's cost-effective. We do know it would be very expensive to fluoridate on a well-by-well basis.