Howard Fischer
PHOENIX — Arizona’s Senate president wants to scrap the centerpiece of state water law by no longer requiring residential developers in urban areas to show they have a 100-year supply of water.Sen. Warren Petersen, a Gilbert Republican, calls the 100-year figure “arbitrary” and wants to replace that mandate with something much looser.He is complaining about the Arizona Department of Water Resources announcing earlier this year it will not issue permits for new subdivisions for some areas on the fringes of Phoenix. That came because a modeling analysis of groundwater at the edges of the basin in and around Phoenix shows there simply won’t be enough water to provide the legally required 100-year supply.
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All that resulted in headlines from coast to coast that Arizona was running out of water. Petersen blamed ADWR.”To send a message to the country that we are out of water was irresponsible,” he said, even if the stories failed to understand this was only for two areas.Petersen also blamed it on “bad modeling” of the water supply by ADWR.But he said it is al …
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