They would sell the agency 3 million gallons a day. Saipan is a wonderful place to live and visit. It is beautiful and is inhabited by a lot of very fine people. These workers need water to drink and to wash with. They pay less taxes than we do.
Many families have maids and nannies.
But Guam has two very important advantages over Saipan. We have a wonderful water lens that stretches across most of the northern part of our island, and we have rivers that produce billions of gallons of water. Water and the cost of that water could limit growth and development in Saipan. And , conversely, the availability of water on Guam could could encourage growth and development here. Desalination plants seem like a neccessity for Saipan.