… Following the Bureau of Reclamation’s release of its formal Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the post-2026 operational guidelines, the state [Ariz.] is locked in a strict era of limits. Under federal fallback models analyzed in the EIS, Arizona faces structural water cuts that could gut its Central Arizona Project allocation by as much as 77 percent. Because Arizona holds the most junior water rights on the river system, it must take the brunt of the reductions first. The resulting crisis is fundamentally shifting the state’s economy, forcing a direct collision between traditional legacy industries and a booming tech sector, while engineering a historic transfer of socio-political power back to Native American tribes. 

Other Arizona water supply news:

• Arizona Daily Star (Tucson): Tucson has 100-year water supply, state finds
• Fountain Hills Times Independent (Ariz.): Fountain Hills to host future of water conversation
• Litchfield Park/Goodyear Independent (Ariz.): Arizona lawmakers work for $746K for Goodyear water site, city hopes for more
• Arizona Municipal Water Users Association: Blog: Advanced water purification: Creating Arizona’s next water supply
• KTAR (Phoenix):Arizona project studies ways to increase groundwater