Instead, some Arizona cities are paying residents to kill their grass and replace it with gravel or drought-resistant plants.
One Arizona water official said Phoenix won't require residents to conserve water yet, fearing that the action wouldn't actually benefit the Colorado River and instead would be diverted to other states struggling with drought.
Cynthia Campbell, the water resource management adviser for the city, told WBUR'sPeter O'Dowd that the city won't mandate that its residents save water by initiating bans on watering lawns. It will, however, pay residents to kill their grass and replace it with a more drought-resistant landscaping option, like gravel.
"When you compel people to do something, they immediately kind of start to harden up," Campbell said."If we were to compel them to do more right now and not use as much water, what would happen? That water would go to some other user in California, probably. So it's not like it's water that gets saved in Lake Mead and helps the reservoir in any way."
Lake Mead's white bathtub ring, seen at sunrise, reveals historic water level decline near Hoover Dam on September 16, 2022, in Boulder City, Nevada. The federal government has proposed an unprecedented plan to cut back on water supplies for Arizona, Nevada and California, where millions of people rely on it for water and power as climate-change-driven drought continues to lower water levels at the biggest reservoir in the nation.
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