Arizona Daily Star: U.S.’s new plan will slash AZ’s water supplies if river stays low

Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star
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The federal government has laid out a path by which it could drastically cut deliveries to the Central Arizona Project that brings drinking water to Tucson and Phoenix.

But in its final environmental impact statement on the Colorado River, released Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation makes it clear that such drastic cuts will happen only if water supply conditions in the river stay bad or continue to deteriorate next year as they have this year.