Tucson offers to leave more CAP water in the Colorado River
Tucson Water is offering to leave "significant volumes" of its annual Central Arizona Project water supply in the Colorado River for the next three...
Tucson Water is offering to leave "significant volumes" of its annual Central Arizona Project water supply in the Colorado River for the next three years in return for financial compensation from the federal government.But its letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation making that offer didn't propose a specific cut to the city's annual CAP allocation. Supplying 144,191 acre-feet a year to Tucson Water, CAP provides virtually all of the drinking water served to more than 730,000 utility customers. Tucson has enough left over from that supply after serving those customers to recharge nearly one-third of the water into the ground to store for future use.