"Water is our life blood. With saline intrusion from groundwater overdraft, we need to reverse this trend so that we have good, fresh potable water for our future. We have developments in the State of Nevada where we don’t have enough potable water, so I am very sensitive to this issue. We have been spoiled in this valley for having good water, but that is a luxury we are in danger of loosing. Once it’s gone we will really miss it."

John Verner, owner, Verner Construction, Stockton, Calif.