The ever-flowing water through the Central Arizona Project canal will soon go underground, in a sense, for some Valley communities with the help of the Old Pueblo.
"The City of Tucson is just making their facilities available to these Valley cities to help them be more resilient," said John Kmiec with Tucson Water.
Brian Biesemeyer, the executive director of Scottsdale Water, says the water storage agreement acts like a rainy-day fund. The agreement states that the City of Scottsdale can store up to 3,000 acre-feet of CAP water per year in Tucson for 10 years, while the Town of Gilbert can store 300 acre-feet per year, and the City of Peoria can store 10,000 acre-feet per year.
Tucson and Phoenix have been doing this type of water agreement since 2017. The City of Phoenix has stored nearly 200,000 acre-feet of water in Tucson's storage facilities since then.
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