Phoenix has long been one of America's fastest growing cities. But central Arizona may be in the middle of a reckoning as much of its groundwater supplies are becoming tapped out.
In Buckeye, Mayor Eric Orsborn, who owns a construction company and also grew up in the West Valley, is accustomed to fielding questions from a skeptical public who he says doesn't always understand how meticulously water is managed in Arizona. In Buckeye, he says, the city recently implemented a drought management plan. They're investing heavily in water reuse and recycling and and working aggressively to find water to import.
Arizona's new Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, says the extreme drought on the Colorado River is one of the biggest challenges of our time.Arizona's new Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, says the extreme drought on the Colorado River is one of the biggest challenges of our time.Still, is Phoenix and the rest of booming central Arizona facing some sort of reckoning over growth? It's not yet clear.
Much of Buckeye's growth plan relies on taking revenues from the boom to go out and buy what would most likely be imported water from other basins to support future growth here. Most developers in cities like Buckeye already had approval to build or expand planned communities and resorts from state and local regulators.
"For a long time a lot of those master planned community developers just thought well, we'll get to be able to do this, we'll get to be able to use this groundwater," Ferris says."And you know what? They can't because there's not enough of it and it's already over-allocated."
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