Phoenix has long been one of America's fastest-growing cities. But central Arizona may finally be facing a reckoning as much of its groundwater supplies are becoming tapped out.
BUCKEYE, Ariz. — Drive traffic-clogged Interstate 10 through Phoenix's West Valley suburbs and you'd hardly know the Southwest is as dry as it's been in 1,200 years.
"A lot of people want to move here," Orsborn says."Part of it is the regulation, the tax, how we do business in Arizona. Part of it is the open opportunity that's here."But there's been a small damper on all the opportunity talk in the West Valley lately. Arizona's new Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat,she says was hidden by her Republican predecessor Doug Ducey.
"I don't think we want to shut off all of the growth trying to figure out the solution for all the growth,"Orbsorn says."We can do this in an incremental approach." Most developers in cities like Buckeye already had approval to build or expand planned communities and resorts from state and local regulators.
A similar parallel is being drawn with the Colorado River itself. Ferris helped write what was at the time hailed as a landmark groundwater management act passed in Arizona in 1980. Then, many cities were relying solely on groundwater to support their growth. Now, Gov. Hobbs wants to, especially to regulate uncontrolled pumping in rural areas, which Ferris finds encouraging.
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