Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit Arizona on July 6, with a stop in Phoenix and another on the Gila River Indian Community.Harris is expected to use the stop to tout the White House’s commitments to tribal communities.In April, the tribe with a reservation south of metro Phoenix announced along with state and federal partners that it was securing as much as $233 million to conserve water and prop up Lake Mead from falling too low.The money will pay for piping up to 20,000 acre-feet of reclaimed water for agriculture, funding solar-panel shade covers over tribal irrigation canals, and creating a conservation project that will ultimately save up to 125,000 acre-feet of water over two years.Part of that announcement included $83 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act for a pipeline to move reclaimed water about 19 miles from the eastern side of the tribe’s 372,000-acre reservation to its Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project facility.The tribe’s work will help keep nearly 2 feet of water in drought-stricken Lake Mead and help forestall dead pool conditions in the giant reservoir, the level when the water drops so low it can’t flow downstream from the dam.Harris last visited Arizona in January, when she discussed a high-voltage transmission line connecting Arizona and California, using the event as an opportunity to tout the Inflation Reduction Act.Part of the Biden-Harris plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the act authorizes $370 billion dollars to fight climate change. The law also includes funding to improve the national power grid, with approximately $3 billion earmarked for transmission funding initiatives such as the power line, called the Ten West Link.At the same time Harris was in Tonopah in January, second gentleman Douglas Emhoff was supposed to take part in a roundtable discussion at Arizona State University about combating antisemitism. That event was closed to the media.
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