(KEARNEY HUB) The Kearney Hub reports, "The Republican River Basin Water Sustainability Task Force was approved by the Nebraska Legislature Tuesday with an emergency clause that will allow the appointment of members to begin as soon as Gov. Dave Heineman signs LB1057 into law.
The vote was 48-0-1.
'Of course, water is the big issue in the Republican Basin,' Carlson said about why LB1057 was his priority bill for the 2010 legislative session. The focus is on complying with the Republican River Compact and the need to send a certain amount of water to Kansas each year. 'The fear in the basin is what happens in a water-short year,' he said, adding that it’s estimated 166,000 irrigated acres in Nebraska could have no irrigation and no compensation to meet compact compliance in such years. '... It’s absolutely frightening.'"
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