Fixing the ailing Colorado River: Where will the water savings come from?

Think of five years worth of Tucson Water’s annual deliveries to 739,000 people.

That’s how much water, totaling about 500,000 acre-feet, that leaders of the three Colorado River Lower Basin states hope to soon find ways to save each year from the river’s dwindling supply, said Bill Hasencamp, a top Southern California water official. Read more...