By Tom O’Halleran, former Arizona lawmaker, current chairman of the Verde River Basin Partnership
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The Arizona Republic editorial board’s focus on Arizona’s water future should serve as a wake-up call and call to action for our state’s leaders and water-management professionals (The New Arizona: Water, Viewpoints, Nov. 3). It gave the general public a view of water-resource issues and the importance of water to our state’s economic future.
To those in the water community, the issues come as no surprise.
Well before the federal Bureau of Reclamation’s “Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study” and Arizona’s Water Resources Development Commission’s October 2011 final report, there were signs of a changing water-resource environment in the Colorado River Basin and Arizona. To its credit, the leadership of the Arizona Department of Water Resources is developing a statewide strategic plan to identify future water-supply demands and possible solutions.
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