Water Infrastructure Finance Authority to consider five proposals to shore up Arizona’s water supply
The board overseeing the state agency charged with finding new water supplies for Arizona is poised to approve as many as five water importation proposals. … Details of the five projects — two involving desalination plants and the others relying on wastewater treatment, surface water and an unidentified third source — remain secret until the full board of the agency known as WIFA meets Wednesday. But the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and the National Parks Conservation Association say it’s pretty clear EPCOR plans to rely on a controversial pumping project in the remote southeastern California desert — an area protected by environmentalists for decades.
Other groundwater and desalination news around the West:
- KJZZ (Phoenix): Water agency to vote on Arizona’s water future, desalination proposals
- Havasu News (Ariz.): Parker could become ground zero for Arizona’s most controversial water deal
- SJV Water (Bakersfield, Calif.): Desert groundwater agency initiates funding process for 50-mile pipeline to import water
- Legal Planet: Blog: The promise and growing pains of managed aquifer recharge
- Times of San Diego: Opinion: Desalination may be solution to rising sea levels and drought
