Arizona water utilities take volunteer cut on CAP water allocations
Two Tucson water utilities will take new voluntary reductions on their allotment of Colorado River water, part of a wider effort by federal water managers to shore up supplies in the drought-stricken system. Tucson Mayor Regina Romero signed an agreement Wednesday with the Bureau of Reclamation to leave 110,000 acre-feet in Lake Mead over the next three years. Metropolitan Domestic Water Improvement District, or Metro Water, which serves over 50,000 people and hundreds of businesses in the Tucson area, signed a similar agreement for 15,000 acre-feet. Tucson and Metro Water will take the reduction through 2025 and will be compensated with $400 per acre-foot. Tucson had already offered to leave 60,000 acre-feet in the system between 2022 and 2023.
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