It is not the water that pisses people off. It is paying for something that is no more theirs than it is ours. I grew up in Colville and have many close friends in the Colville tribe. They are a proud great people and I have nothing but respect for them but they get a % of profits off the dam every year now. When we were in high school they would get checks for thousands. My friends use to laugh about just how stupid we are.
Now we are going to pay for H2o as well. Why dont we just pay Canada for it too. It runs through their land before ours. Where is this going to stop? Sooner or later, the liberals in Seattle need to stop making these fine decisions for the rest of the state when they know nothing about it. Water is water and if we need more from behind the Dam then we should use it and no specific group should have anymore right to it than any other.