Opinion: Arizona lawmakers flubbed a major opportunity to shore up our water
You’d think that spending $200 million to help shore up our shrinking water supply would be a monumentally good thing. And it could have been, if there weren’t so many stipulations on how that cash must be spent. Lawmakers plopped $160 million into a newly created drought mitigation fund – a hefty chunk of change that some have called “unprecedented.” They set up the fund, according to the budget bill, because “many regions in this state lack access to sustainable water supplies to meet their long-term water demands and need financial assistance to develop water supply and conservation projects.”
-Written by Arizona Republic columnist Joanna Allhands.