Arizona Water Shortage 2018

Governor ducey has prioritized arizona s water future as one of the most crucial policy issues facing the state.

Arizona water shortage 2018. From water supply projects to innovative programs including drought preparedness underground water storage 100 year water supply requirements mandatory conservation programs and use of reclaimed water we lead the nation in comprehensive water supply management. Arizona s goal shouldn t be to avoid a water shortage completely on lake mead but to ensure the coming shortages don t turn into larger ones. Results depict water flows slightly improved from recent years enough to assure that lake mead will avoid a shortage declaration for 2018 at least. In his 2018 state of the state address governor ducey highlighted the issue.

In 2018 phoenix added more new residents than any other u s. The water department is arizona s biggest electricity consumer. April june 2020. The long term drought map shows some drought degradation across the state with the expansion of severe drought d2 and extreme drought d3 conditions in northeastern and central arizona and in graham greenlee and southern apache counties.

In the late 1990s during the first few years of what would eventually turn out to be a 19 year and counting arizona drought only about 15 000 acre feet of water were estimated to have percolated. Serious water shortages on the colorado river could be less than two years away according to new federal estimates. Arizona is a visionary of water planning and management. Quarterly drought status update.

Subscribe now 1 for 3 months. The federal bureau of reclamation has completed its crucial august 2017 24 month study which is part of a study of hydrology and projected operations of the colorado river system. Facing scarcity the state s longstanding economic and political order is shifting with water and power flowing from its. Planning for a sustainable arizona water future.

Yet after 19 years of drought just 500 farmers in one arizona county may decide the fate of the entire southwest. By holding tight to their own temporary water supply they could stall a conservation plan designed to save the entire region from water shortages. Subscribe now 1 for 3 months. Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050.