“We can’t just assume the water’s gonna be there,” Estevan López, the Upper Colorado River Compact Commissioner for New Mexico, said.
in 1999, offering residents money for every square foot of lawn they were willing to replace. To date, the city has replaced hundreds of millions of square feet of turf and saved hundreds of billions of gallons of water.
“When you’re in the dry part of the world, it should look like the dry part of the world, not lush and green,” he said. Arizona has done this for decades. In 1980 state lawmakers passed the Groundwater Management Act, creating areas in which developers and municipal water providers must obtain permits from the state to confirm any new homes would have a 100-year water supply.
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