2019-02-04 Temporary drought or aridification: Will we thrive?
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The Arizona State Climate Office reports, “Arizona is currently in our 21st year of a long-term drought.” Growing evidence suggests that the Southwest is in an extended drier and warmer climate — aridification. If so, an eventual crisis of ever- increasing well failure and insufficient water supply threatens our economy and lifestyle in the Prescott Active Management Area (PrAMA — which includes the municipalities of Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, and Dewey-Humboldt).
To learn more,view a pdf of CWAG's monthly column in the Daily Courier, published February 4, 2019.