Comments on: "Ocean" To Be Built In Arizona Desert

As Part Of Water Sports Theme Park That May Use 60 Million To 100 Million Gallons A Year

[boston1954]

I have difficulty thinking of a bigger waste of money. It will just evaporate and have to be replenished. The charge to get in will be outrageous.

jntlw, great plan. On top of that, nature has a pretty good desalination process of her own. Again, to be green about it, why not use solar powered pumping stations, since that part of the country gets about 350 days a year of sunshine....

Re-build New Orleans? You have to be kidding. Unless you decide to build it up another 20 feet, it would be worthless to do anything else. The next hurricane that hits that city will do just what Katrina did, it will be flooded. This country had spent the last 150 years to prevent it from flooding, and it didn%u2019t work. I%u2019m probably way off on the 150 year part. The deal is, developers kept building and building in areas that were prone to flooding, but the attitude was, %u201Cnah, this%u2019ll never happen here%u201D Well guess what, it did and with a vengeance. Why not just use the money to pay grammar school teachers more?

[jntlw-2009]

I like the person who stated we (Arizaona) need to get water from the ocean. After all with Global warming the ocean will rise and if we take some of that water that will help that issue a little. We could build series of canals that bring ocean water to So. California, Arizona and perhaps Nevada. With desalination projects, we could even use it for drinking water. Southern California, Arizona, Nevada will have enough water to drink, but if the Rockies winter snowpack runs dry, we will not get water in the Colorado River for our power plants and that could be a problem.

[cyberdjs4]

The difference between Arizona and Dubai:

Dubai-an Arab city that prospered from America''s lust and greed for foreign oil. They have our money to build the impossible, improbable and impractical.

Arizona-one of the 50 states that make up the United States of America. A country that, thanks to the Bush tyranny, enjoys a $9T deficit.

Why doesn''t this self-righteous idiot put that money toward helping rebuild New Orleans or helping to build the new Freedom Tower in NYC.
America needs rich, influential people to help rebuild the damage caused by natural and man-made disasters.

[taddles-2009]

Are you kidding me?!? These pin heads want to build the worlds largest water park in the desert?!?! How completely stupid do you have to be to allow that to happen. Can anyone say KICK-BACK...I thought so.

[mrassekh]

"Waveyard''s developer, Mladick, who is 39, says he wants to create the kind of lush environment he remembers from growing up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and surfing in Morocco, Indonesia, Hawaii and Brazil.

''I couldn''t imagine raising my kids in an environment where they wouldn''t have the opportunity to grow up being passionate about the same sports that I grew up being passionate about,'' he said."

So why the heck did he move to Arizona???

[usbrit-2009]

This guys name Mladick is a westernized version of the Slavic name Mladic, the same name that belongs to the well known long sought after Serbian war criminal, Ratko Mladic. A coincidence, or another example of the U.S.''s porous borders?

True on the east coast, but the key word is salt...

[Netterz]

SO, leadin down to the point, most of us wont be able to afford to visit any of these places that will be built, so they will end up going under in the long run. 7500 new jobs, 7000 will end up going to illegals, to clean the place. What a country huh?