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Rural Arizona At Risk For Water Shortage

Posted by: Brenda Meyer
Thanks to: Brenda Meyer
28 June 2005 - 10:00am

As the state's population continues to grow, the limited water supplies continue to shrink.

"Unchecked development threat-ens to overwhelm rural Arizona's limited water resources, leaving entire communities vulnerable to shortages and rivers at risk of running dry.

Rural Arizona's population, which doubled to more than 1 million people in the past 25 years, is projected to grow by an additional 500,000 in the next 25 years. The result is a soaring thirst for a finite supply of groundwater."

Full Story: State's rural growth taxing water supplies
Source: The Arizona Republic, June 27, 2005
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