Arizona governor slams the brakes on Phoenix development because it doesn't have enough water
that showed 4% of the demand for groundwater in the region over a period of 100 years can't be met under the current rules.
The restriction is the latest sign that years of chatter about the dwindling supply of freshwater in the state — which is more than three-quarters arid or semi-arid — is turning into action. It also comes less than a month afterto cut the amount of water they draw from the Colorado River by 3 million acre-feet, though the reductions fell far short of the more drastic cuts urged by the federal government.
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