Phoenix
Arizona Announces Phoenix Area Can’t Grow Further on Groundwater
PHOENIX—The nation’s fifth-largest city and surrounding metropolitan area is officially tapped out of groundwater, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Thursday, adding another item to the state’s long list of water woes. By 2121, the Phoenix metro area will be short of nearly 5 million acre feet of water—enough water for around 17 million homes—under a […]
Read MoreAmid Continuing Drought, Arizona Is Coming up With New Sources of Water—if Cities Can Afford Them
BUCKEYE, Ariz.—Sixty miles west of Phoenix along the I-10 freeway to the California border lies what many Valley cities with limited water supplies and investment companies see as an answer to helping solve Arizona’s water woes: the Harquahala Basin. It’s one of three basins in the state where groundwater can be pumped out and sent […]
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