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Twenty-five years from now, people need to look back and see what was done at this point in time. We went from all groundwater, while the city was sinking like crazy, and within basically 20 years—25 years, actually; when it’s all said and done, it’ll be 30 years, I suppose—we converted to 80% surface water being transported all the way across town for 200 square miles of the city, which is far more populated today than it ever was.

That is an impressive task, regardless of how you look at it. It is an impressive task to take surface water and almost totally replace groundwater so that you can fix the problem.

It’s evidence that a regulation—which none of us like—actually worked the way it was supposed to.

I think that 25 years from now, when people look back, they’ll be able to see that the problem was solved.

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