By Brandon Loomis | The Republic
Central Arizona water managers, facing backlash from other Colorado River users for allegedly undercutting regional conservation efforts, will visit Utah later this month aiming to smooth relations across a region struggling to agree on a way to save a key water supply.
Representatives from upstream states scolded the Central Arizona Project in a letter last week for pumping too much river water into the canal that helps supply Phoenix and Tucson, undermining “the collaboration we need now more than ever in this basin.”
