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PO2 Marco Monsalve
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Worked in Phoenix in 70's and the problems were starting even then. Hope they don't totally ruin the Salt & Verde rivers in this process.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
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Each year we go to Prescott, AZ to visit our son. We try to get in some fishing, but the last few years all the lakes have been so low it was difficult to get down to the water's edge.

The article says the farmers will bare the burden, but that means we, the consumers, will.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Planning the pipeline

The new pipeline will move that water nine miles north to part of Phoenix where 400,000 people rely almost entirely on water from the Colorado River.

“This pipeline will allow us to move that treated Salt and Verde River water up where we need it in times of drought if our Colorado River supply is cut back,” Freed, the city engineer, says.

Troy Hayes, the water services director for Phoenix, says when this pipeline was first planned in 2015, the chance of rationing river water was pretty remote — around 3% to 5% chance that “declarations of shortage on the Colorado River” could occur, he says.

But just six years later, that’s exactly what happened.

This summer, Lake Mead fell to levels not seen since the Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s. And the Bureau of Reclamation declared the first-ever shortage on the Colorado River."...
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