Feds say CAP district illegally favoring development over tribes

The Central Arizona Project canal brings water from the Colorado River across most of the arid expanse of the state of Arizona, supplying water to large cities including Phoenix and Tucson.

The agency that runs the CAP is setting aside Colorado River water for new development that by all rights should go to the Tohono O’odham and other Indian tribes, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says.

In unusually strongly worded comments, the bureau accuses the Central Arizona Water Conservation District of defying a 2007 legal settlement giving the federal government the right to buy certain classes of Central Arizona Project water on behalf of tribes.

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