Salt LAke Tribune

"Rep. Jim Matheson signed a letter to the White House on Tuesday requesting a personal meeting to urge Obama to "reverse a decision" by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to cut next year's CUP funding...

...said he would be happy to help the White House find wasteful spending elsewhere, while insisting that the CUP must be finished for taxpayers to see a return on their spending.The law is explicit: cutting this funding won't save taxpayers one dime, since the federal share is paid back with interest by Utah water users, If no water is delivered, then Utahns won't have to pay, and hundreds of millions of dollars will have been wasted."

Federal taxpayers already have pumped $450 million into the project, money the delegation argues would be paid back if the government continues to fund the six-unit project, which eventually will bring water from eastern Utah's Uinta Basin to the Wasatch Front's Bonneville Basin.

So far, the project has funneled water as far as Strawberry Reservoir. A final segment would bring it through a massive tunnel to a finished pipeline linking it to a water-distribution network along the Wasatch Front."

We need turtle tunnels not water tunnels for humans. Only turtle tunnels save or create jobs.