Interview with Grady Gammage - Central Arizona Project
Interview with Grady Gammage - Central Arizona Project
Interview with Grady Gammage - Central Arizona Project
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go there. I don’t think it will. I think it’s done now. There was a concern about<br />
that.<br />
Q. Do you think in future generations our [descendants] will be buying water from<br />
the Indians<br />
A. Yes. They already have. That is how Anthem started. That’s Indian water rights<br />
from the Ak-Chin Community. Yeah, I think it will. If you think about that in a big<br />
picture context, even that sort of makes some sense in that we’ll be giving money<br />
to the Indians for water, but we got money back from the federal government<br />
when we settled the case. So we don’t have to pay as much for the CAP canal<br />
as we thought we would have to pay because a big chunk of it went to the Indian<br />
Community. Ultimately, it’s the federal government giving money to the Indians<br />
for past wrongs. So even from sort of a global sociological perspective it seemed<br />
to me sort of just at the end of the day.<br />
Q. Are you currently, I believe I saw somewhere that you’re on the Governor’s<br />
Water . . .<br />
A. No, that was a long time ago. It was actually a task force. It was at the<br />
anniversary of the Groundwater Management Act. It was appointed I guess in<br />
’01 or something like that and it went for like a couple of years.<br />
<strong>Interview</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Grady</strong> <strong>Gammage</strong><br />
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