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Due to a logjam in interstate negotiations for massive cuts in Colorado River water deliveries, Arizona farmers and urban users have no idea how much water use they’ll be ordered to cut, possibly starting next year.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Robbie Woodhouse’s grandfather began nearly a century of family farming along the Gila River near Yuma in the middle 1920s when he dug up a bunch of mesquite stumps on his land to make way for his barley, wheat, Bermuda seed, cotton and melon fields.
Water officials of Arizona cities of Tucson, Goodyear and Scottsdale are also concerned and a little on edge although they’re not panicking.
Water officials are concerned but not panicking about the future of water use coming from the Colorado River as levels continue to decline.
Farmers, urban users have no idea how much river water use they’ll have to cut