I want to commend you and all Arizona state stakeholders for developing a state-specific drought mitigation plan.
Arizona gets hit the hardest. We stand to lose 18 percent of our annual Colorado River water allocation beginning next y...
We have this old saying in Arizona that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.
The longer we wait to take those actions for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the more you have to conserve.
So there is significant motivation, then, for conservation?
We need to prepare for this much sooner than we anticipated.
Lake Mead is the nation's largest man-made lake. It stores Colorado River water behind the Hoover Dam.
I welcome the more conservative approach that Reclamation has decided to use.
I'm a big believer in that because we need to know what we are up against here.
Through this type of Federal investment we can make all of the long-term economic and health benefits of electrification...
Beginning next year, Arizona will lose 18 percent of our Colorado River water supply, and we get 40 percent of our water...