Commission adopts Water Use and Preservation Element after debate over climate references
After extended public comment and commission debate about climate science and references to other planning documents, the commission adopted the revised Water Use and Preservation Element with additional graphs showing demand‑reduction scenarios; vote was 6–1 (Hadeem opposed).
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Planning director Andrew Jackson presented the Water Use and Preservation Element for adoption, telling the commission that the chapter had been revised to include graphs demonstrating the effect of demand reduction. "What it does is it adds graphs that detail what could happen if there is conservation and reduction on demand," Jackson said, and described coordination with the Moab‑Spanish Valley water resource management planning work.
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