House Chamber, October 15, 2009. Congressional Debate on Water Recycling - excerpt: "A generation ago, the principal objective of our water policy was to create abundance. It was an era when vast reservoirs produced a cornucopia of clean and plentiful water on a scale so vast that many communities didnt even bother to meter it. That clean, cheap and abundant water also made America the bread basket of the world and the Central Valley the bread basket of California. But the majority party has abandoned this policy, and has replaced it with a very different philosophy: that the governments principal focus should not be to produce abundant water, but rather to ration and recycle shortages that government has caused by abandoning abundance as its primary objective.