By Taylor Seely, Maritza Dominguez | Arizona Republic
A massive community about to get underway in the nation’s fastest-growing city raises the question: Where will the water come from?
Buckeye leaders approved Douglas Ranch, a master-planned community roughly the geographic size of Flagstaff that would quadruple the city’s population, nearly 20 years ago.
That plan calls for the development to rely on groundwater, a resource state water experts say has been so dangerously depleted that Arizona’s water future is in jeopardy.
