i can tell you this my man, the government of guam is so corrupt out here, as soon as that money reaches GWA (guam water authority)it will be split up among the chamorros that live here. We are so far away from the main land U.S. and the fact Guam is not a state and a territory, that nothing is regulated properly. Guam does not want to be a state, due to this fact. They want to keep their corruption going. GWA gets their water source from Feena lake here on the navy base, the largest source of fresh water on the island, and they in turn sell it right back to the navy. The navy also buys it's electricity from GPA (guam power authority), and electricty is rediculously expensive out here. The average electric bill is about $600 a month. It is so hot here, that you have to run your air conditioner. The navy has started putting up solar panels all over the base here to counter act.
What amazes me about Guam is how alot of the locals protest the navy being here, and they are furious about the 14,000 U.S. marines moving in here from Japan. They feel the island is being taken over by military, even though the military employs about 50% of the island. I see locals in the navy exchange and the AFEES up at Anderson air force base on the north side of the island all of the time, buying coach bags, gucci sunglasses, tag watches and driving nice cars to work, and then go out and protest we are here on the weekends, and then go to work on monday morning on the navy bases that employs them so that they can afford these luxury items. It simply amazes me. Then the corruption is so thick, the saying here is, "the only people that get speeding tickets are the ones who cant afford to pay off the cops". If the navy and airforce were to pull out of Guam and the marines never showed up, this island would be so poor it wouldnt even be funny.
The only way that money will make it to improve the water is to give it to the navy water treatment plants, where about half of the islands water comes from anyways. Giving that money to GWA was pissing it into the wind in my opinion. These guys out here cant even pay their teachers with the hundreds of millions of dollars that are pumped into this island by the U.S. government. Where in the heck does all of that money go? Schools are condemned and shut down. The navy kids have it very good. we have a brand new really nice school here on base. State of the art everything, and then i see the local kids schools as i drive down the highways, and they are all falling apart, or shut down.
No, that money will never see the water company, ever.
AI
