Valid water treaty may protect Montana later

A thought about water negotiations from one who well remembers the proposal to raise Flathead Lake. In not too many years the farmers of California and the Southwest together with the citizens of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix will be pounding on doors in Washington, D.C., demanding our water.

Our best defense may well be a constitutional treaty provision and a valid Indian treaty. Remember some sayings from the past: “Divide and conquer,” “We’re in this together,” and “Hang together or hang separately.”

O’Neil is a resident of Kalispell