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

[jamestennant]

This is just ridicules. What a waste of water and no one so far has mentioned what this huge humidifier is going to do to the already high temperatures here in the desert. It will definitely raise the humidity in the valley, which we have already done with all the plants and grass people have brought in.

We live in a desert. Some people live here because they need the dry heat, so we are going to make it a sauna and drive them out...

[allunknowing]

lol, this is NOT Dubai. This is America where we only pay the contractor who is the lowest bidder. Unfortunately the lowest bidder is usually not the smartest and most savvy group of engineers. I foresee this project to be run similar to how the DOT is run. All projects are overbudget and understaffed with projected deadlines running short about 10 years.

Dubai engineering rocks.

[rational_1]

This is an absolutely brain-dead idea and anyone who invests in it is a moron. Pumping out 100 million gallons of groundwater annually!!! Hey Einsteins, where you planning on getting water for your water park once you deplete the groundwater? Maybe switch to sandsurfing? I live about 25 miles west of Austin and depend on groundwater. We''ve had problems with supply and most everyone is well aware of the need to conserve since aquifer recharge rates are slow. A developer here was using groundwater to fill a couple of ponds and quickly became very unpopular; to his credit he stopped. And this was nothing compared to the scale of these jokers in Arizona.

[wolf563]

This is a gov. test project for living in a desert area . Life on other planets would need to have close to the same setup as this would . Not a bad idea but it should be funded by the world .

[jeffstersf]

Why waste the time, energy and money? With global warming melting ice sheets in Antartica and Greenland, Phoenix will be beachfront property before you can say BRAINDEAD DEVELOPER.

[cyberus-2009]

And they want to pipe Great Lakes water west "because they need the water''?

I am sure they will create a sea breeze for this project. I bet the people will be standing in line to experience this out door sauna.

[insightman-2009]

Is this article unbelievable or what? I cannot believe that the people living in the Pheonix area would support such a huge waste of their precious water. Are the people of Mesa that uninformed about what is happening? The reason for this park is so incredibly stupid too. It just goes to show you that people with money don''t necessarily get it because they''re smart. Lots of Forest Gumps in the world and brats born with silver spoons in their mouths. These people need to get a clue.

[fstop100]

We need to be responsible about conservation, this is as bad as it gets.

[yongamerica]

What is not being said here in so many words is:
The developer is using a public well, pulling up almost 274 thousand gallons of water a day. This will certainly impact other wells in the surrounding area.

A water treatment plant will be built to make the water safe for swimming. Which means the water treatment plant is going to require large amounts of electricity and chemicals to remove the arsenic. The arsenic is a hazardous waster, so expensive handling and dispoal methods will be needed for that. Meanwhile, this water is now safe for human use which means this valuable resource could be used a multitude of applications other than a big swimming pool.

A huge water park will be built, that again uses a large amount of electrical power, in an area that doesn''t generate any and faces shortages regularly especially suring the summer.

If this project is approved and built it will speak volumes about the local government''s idiocy, especially during a time and in a desert area where both water and electricity are both valuable commodities.

[oleander8]

This proposal is too dumb to even think of an adequate response. You want to surf? Go to the ocean.

[ianlou]

Where will they get the water?
Perhaps Bush has promised them Lake Michigan
and will brag about all the jobs the new pipline will create.

[eah59]

Note to developers: Phoenix is a desert! Deserts don''t have water! I used to live in that area: new homeowners were encouraged to use xeriscape as a means to help conserve water. Now this bozo wants to build a theme park that will use more water than the area can handle. If he wants to raise his children so that they can learn to enjoy the water sports he grew up with, then maybe he should move to an area that already has those features. Besides, Phoenix has plenty of outdoor activities - even a few lakes; why now learn to utilize what''s already there - who knows, maybe the developer and his kids can find new interests to enjoy.

[bobgee_1999]

How mind-numbingly inane. Mladick''s statement is incredibly stupid. If your kids surfing is so important to you, why do you live in a desert, pinhead? Some of us live here because we value what a desert is, not because we want to make money off it, *********. Typical American "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" attitude.

[runningralph]

Why can''t we build a canal from the Gulf of California to the Salton Sea and then into Death Valley and restore these regions to what they once were- parts of the ocean? Is there some engineering reason? What is the downside?

[itgranny]

This is all fine and dandy if its not ground water or water from rivers and streams that is supposed to go to other communities. If they can figure out how to get ocean water inland that far, desalinate it and not have others pay for it because they go bankrupt, I''m ok with it.

[brianbwb-2009]

Reminds one of Masada, where, while under siege from the Romans, a group of resisters in a mountaintop fortress wasted the last of their water in a show meant to demoralize the Romans.

It didn''t work then, either, and only hastened their doom.

[hdunker]

This sounds great. Now why don''t they tell him to build a large desalination plant to provide water for his park and excess for the population near by. Give him great tax breaks only if he builds the desalination plant. This would be a good way to force a way of getting water that the US. needs.