Arizona water shortage, what parts have good supplies? (Phoenix, Tucson: live, cost)

[Packard fan]

Word is that even Bullhead City is drilling a well to supply water, which scares me since we we're ON the Colorado River.

I know Phoenix is Ok since it gets CAP water and has wells too but what other parts of Arizona are NOT in real danger of water shortages if this drought keeps up? I've heard Kingman is Ok but don't know.

[saffordpastor]

Safford is in trouble....or so our beloved leaders tell us...

At least some of the trouble might be bad planning and refusal of water districts to work together....but we do have a serious water shortage.

[saffordpastor]

Also like every other water source in the West...lots of folks want a piece of the pie....and in Saffords case we tend to get the smallest piece sometimes.

I think more aggressive pursuit of water rights might have served us well....but now the Reservation downstream gets more water so they can sell it to folks further downstream (who incidently have access to more water sources then we do) ...or so I have been told..

I am not an authority on all of this so I may not have all my facts exactly right....but I am engaging in an age old American tradition of spouting off about something I am not really sure about.

[Steve Pickering]

We have good water in Sunsites.

[pokuku]

Flagstaff has major water worries. This is relatively "hush hush", as is most upsetting news in Northern Arizona. They have purchased water rights, but it remains to be seen what the actual supply will be. AND such a project will require major funding, which is yet to exist.

Plan B is a pipeline to the Colorado River, which would cost a rumored 1 billion.

As is the norm here, we won't know exactly how bad it is until the last possible moment. But, you can go take a look at the two reservoirs for yourself: one is completely empty, and one is partially full....and this is during Monsoon season.

[jamies]

I say shut off the spigot to Los Angeles.

Eventually I think the only solution for the West is going to be pipelines from the great rivers in the midwest or maybe the Columbia in Oregon?

[teddyearp]

Originally Posted by jamies

I say shut off the spigot to Los Angeles.

<snip>maybe the Columbia in Oregon?

For the former, yes. For the latter I'm game. And actually the Columbia is in both OR and WA.

I had to laugh in the winter 2005 when the governor of WA declared a 'water emergency' because of low snow pack. About 10 miles from me is a lake that is about 10 miles long at least. The river I cross to go to work is at the least fifty yards wide. My well is only 150 feet deep and the static level is about 15-20 feet down. "Water emergency?" Check out the SW, then you know what a shortage of water is . . .

[gemstone1]

Lots of eye opening info here about our water woes: facts about the coming water crisis

Regards
Gemstone1

[LordBalfor]

We have a good solid aquifer out at J-Six (40 minutes east of Tucson just off I-10). The nearly San Pedro aquifer between Sierra Vista and Benson is somewhat stressed but ours (just few miles west) is in good shape.

Ken

[azdr0710]

Originally Posted by jamies

I say shut off the spigot to Los Angeles.

do you mean the LA Aqueduct?....that is entirely in Cal and comes from the Sierras....not an Arizona jurisdiction....

agriculture and some mining use, by far, the most water in Arizona....