There is a disconnect on the availability of water.

If you live in the city of Albuquerque there are a number of
rebates that you can take advantage of; rebates for replacing
water hungry toilets, landscaping, and there is even a rebate
if you buy one of these ridiculously expensive rain barrels.
There are often schedules residents must follow when they
water their yards.

Yet mayoral hopeful Marty Chavez wants citizens to take the
lawns that they have torn out of their yards, and reinstall them
on their roofs. He wants to plant 150,000 trees. And he wants
to grow the city until houses and people start falling into the
canyon carved by the Rio Puerco River.

If Albuquerque has plenty of water forever, then why are tax
dollars being spent on conservation? If we are short of water,
why are we building a megalopolis that will take three hours
to drive across?

Mayoral hopeful Richard Romero questions the availability
of unlimited water forever. Chavez questions Romero's
grasp of reality.

If water is unlimited, why are we rationing it?
If water is limited, why are we encouraging unlimited growth?

I question whether or not the citizens of Albuquerque will want
to live in one of the country's largest cities, and be rationed a
few gallons of water per day.

Romero's approach seems prudent; Chavez' approach seems
reckless.