Fallacious vs Cogent #4
                                                 Do we Need the Lake Powell Pipeline?

The question was raised; do we need the lake Powell Pipeline?  Dallas Hyland wrote a very opinionated article about this and made some good points. However I feel that his argument is both Fallacious and Cogent on the grounds that his argument is laced with sarcasm, strong opinion, and some facts. He makes the pipeline seem absolutely absurd and clearly pokes fun at many if not all of the pipelines supporters but doesn't purpose a clear cut action plan on another way to retain and conserve water here in Southern Utah. 
His argument is Cogent for the following reasons.
-The pipeline is estimated to cost over 2 Billion dollars. (aka to much)
-The Washington County Water Conservancy District is paying an analyst/pipeline supporter Jeremy Aguero (a lot of money).
-He also had facts showing inflated projections dating back to 1993.

His argument is Fallacious for these following reasons.
-He never mentioned where he came up with the 2 billion dollars estimated cost of the pipeline.
-I would like to know the exact amount that the County paid Mr. Aguero.  Not just (A lot of Money)

I for one do not think that we need the pipeline for the following reasons.
-More water only brings more people to the County and surrounding area's. 
-Higher populations bring more crime into Southern Utah. 
-Southern Utah has a lot of water that it could tap into if they wanted to. 
-The entire Washington fields sits over a gigantic aquifer.
-Why not spend some of that 2 billion on creative and clean ways to tap into the aquifer?
-We could also look for more effective ways to trap our rain water especially when we get these occasional torrential downpours. 

Over all I feel that the pipeline would eventually benefit the county but at what cost? I know that we could spend that money on other things and maybe control the already out of control growth here in Southern Utah.