• eremy Duda

Jun 4, 2022-Energy & Environment

5. https://www.axios.com/2022/06/04/arizona-drought-water-cutbacks

Arizona and the other six Western states that are part of the Colorado River Basin are in the midst of a 22-year “megadrought” that ranks as the region’s worst in 1,200 years.

Why it matters:If the situation worsens, restrictions on outdoor residential water use could be only a couple of years away, Arizona Department of Water Resources director Tom Buschatzke tells Axios.

• The drought,driven in large part by human-caused climate change, has already caused water cutbacks for central Arizona farmers and new requirements for homebuilding in Phoenix’s fast-growing southeastern suburbs.
• There’s no end in sight to the drought, which experts said should be considered the new normal due to climate change.

Much of the stateis dependent on water for agricultural and residential use from the Central…