'there will be significant legal hurdles to overcome, and the price tag will be very high.'
None of us has a crystal ball, but we can be certain that our water future will require a variety of adaptive changes.
People are also reading… One solution is making targeted adjustments to the legal regime. As one example, in areas where agricultural water use is high, certain restrictions have the unintended consequence of perpetuating higher net groundwater use. There are areas, where groundwater pumping exceeds annual recharge, in which transitioning some agricultural lands to development would reduce the annual groundwater overdraft.
Whatever else is pursued, the introduction of new water supplies must be a major feature of our water future. There are many proposals for bringing new supplies to Arizona. Some of the most promising involve desalination .
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