Ryan Randazzo, The Republic | azcentral.com
Arizona’s utility regulators agree that ongoing drought threatens hundreds of small water companies in the state, but they disagreed Thursday over how quickly they need to reform the industry.
The Arizona Corporation Commission regulates 256 water companies in the state, and 18 of them have faced emergencies in the last decade. Five of them have run into supply crises so far this year, including from arsenic and uranium contamination, and one event where taps went dry for nearly a week for about 28 residents.
