Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s plan to create a new state agency to boost the desert state’s increasingly strained water supply morphed into a plan to give an existing state entity the authority to leverage and dole out a new $1 billion appropriation.
, which will now be a standalone agency with oversight from a new board and some from the Legislature.
The new agency has the backing of a host of water users and entities that are increasingly concerned as long-term drought imperils the supply from the Colorado River. The state is already taking less water from the river for delivery to metro Phoenix, Pinal County and Tucson, and federal officials are warning of even steeper cuts soon.
"No one says this is perfect. We understand what we have to get done," Bowers told a House committee Thursday. "And I do not envision a willy-nilly approach to assessing the projects, both the smaller conservation projects as well as the larger augmentation efforts." Democrats on the panel questioned whether the agency that helps finance local water and wastewater projects would be able to handle the expanded role.
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