Arizona Water Shortage

Farms like this one are facing tough times ahead as arizona s water levels run ever lower.

Arizona water shortage. Willcox a small town an hour southeast of tucson offers a prime example. A quarter of arizona s water comes from the colorado river and that river is running low. Drought monitor authors on the current drought conditions in arizona and makes recommendations about the position of the drought boundaries for arizona. Key stakeholders involved in negotiations.

Photograph by bill hatcher. Drought monitor is the official record of drought for federal drought relief claims. Arizona is a visionary of water planning and management. A water shortage is in arizona s future like it or not.

A shortage won t be declared this year predicts sarah porter director of the kyl center for water policy at arizona state university. Planning for a sustainable arizona water future. The arizona drought monitoring technical committee confers weekly to advise the u s. Willcox is in the midst of a remarkable wine country.

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And avoid critical water shortages along the river system. Arizona s goal shouldn t be to avoid a water shortage completely on lake mead but to ensure the coming. However she calls the prospect of a shortage an urgent incentive to continue negotiations over arizona s drought contingency plan which if enacted would provide a roadmap to manage shrinking colorado river water. The odds just got better for arizona to meet a second federal deadline to complete its part of a seven state drought contingency plan that kicks in with cuts to colorado river water supplies when a shortage occurs likely by the end of this year.