Katie Hobbs on Environment

	Katie Hobbs on Environment

I plan to tackle our water issues openly and directly

In the next few minutes you will receive a previously unreleased report by the Arizona Department of Water Resources that shows that portions of Phoenix's far West Valley are currently short of the 100-year Assured Water Supply Program by 15% today. This report unequivocally shows that we have to act now, or this will only be the first new area that faces this kind of shortage. I don't understand, and do not in any way agree with, my predecessor choosing to keep this report from the public and from members of this legislature. However, my decision to release this report signals how I plan to tackle our water issues openly and directly.

[Note: The federally-funded Central Arizona Project conveys water about 190 miles from the Colorado River on the Arizona-California border through a system of canals to Phoenix & Tucson (phoenix.gov); the "Assured Water Supply Program" includes diverting Colorado River water which would otherwise have reached California and Mexico].

Source: 2023 State of the State Address to the Arizona legislature , Jan 9, 2023

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