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As a hotter, drier climate grips the Colorado River, water risks grow across the Southwest
The water level of Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir, has dropped more than 130 feet since the beginning of 2000, when the lake’s surface lapped at the spillway gates on Hoover Dam....
How Many Homes In Arizona, On Average, Share An Acre-Foot Of Water Each Year?
Household water use is a timely subject. The entire Southwest is being wracked by chronic drought. Just this week, the managers of the Colorado River system – the federal Bureau of Reclamation – released data indicating that a first-time-ev...
Here’s what is being done to protect Arizona’s water supplies for future growth
Arizona’s top water officials spoke to the manufacturing community Wednesday about what’s being done to protect the state’s water supplies for future growth in this new era of climate change. In fact, there is the potential for the state to...
First mandatory cutback of CAP water now likely in 2022
The Central Arizona Project seems almost certain to suffer its first significant shortage in water deliveries next year....
Southwest braces for water cutbacks as drought deepens along the Colorado River
Unrelenting drought and years of rising temperatures due to climate change are pushing the long-overallocated Colorado River into new territory, setting the stage for the largest mandatory water cutbacks to date....