By Emile Eaton | Cronkite News
The director of the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association told a U.S. Senate subcommittee Tuesday that there is no “silver bullet” to the problem of rising demand for water from the Colorado River.
Kathleen Ferris pointed to Arizona’s years of successful water management policies that have kept water use at virtually the same level since 1957, despite an exploding population. But while conservation and reuse are essential, Ferris said other measures need to be taken, such as the augmentation of supplies.
“We have to expand our thinking,” Ferris told a subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
She was one of several government, tribal and expert witnesses who appeared before the Subcommittee on Water and Power to discuss the Bureau of Reclamation’s December study on water supply and demand in the Colorado River Basin.
