Overcommmitted Water Supply in a Warmer and Drier Climate 2019-04-07

Accelerated depletion of groundwater in the Prescott Active Management Area as well as above the headwaters of the upper Verde River began in the mid-1990s. Climate analysis for Yavapai County and the southwestern states gives evidence of a transition at the same time to a warmer and drier climate. Citizen and government officials should be concerned that our warming and drying climate is now contributing to an increasingly diminished water supply.

By  Edward Wolfe, Apr. 2019. View Document.