Arizona lawmakers this month introduced legislation that would fund a pipeline to bring water from Lake Powell to three tribes with Colorado River rights. The $5 billion deal includes $1.75 billion for the pipeline, and now needs approval from Congress.
Proposed legislation would bring water from the reservoir to tribal communities who lack access to drinking water, Arizona lawmakers say.There’s another proposal on the table to build a pipeline from Lake Powell, but the water wouldn’t go to St. George.introduced legislation that would fund a pipeline to bring water from Lake Powell to three tribes with Colorado River rights.
“Those of us in the West understand that water claims are inadequate without the infrastructure needed to move the water,” Ciscomani The proposed iiná bá—paa tuwaqat’si pipeline from Lake Powell would be built by the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which owns and operates water infrastructure across the country. The water would go to the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, settling their Colorado River water rights.
The tribes could lease their water to growing cities like Phoenix and Tucson, “providing a badly needed water source for central Arizona during a time in which their water supplies have already been significantly cut due to Colorado River shortage,”the 1922 Colorado River Compact, the foundational document for sharing the river
Congress would have to grant special permission to make that leasing possible. But in ongoing, heated Colorado River talks, the Upper Basin states have made it clear that they don’t want to send any extra water downstream to the Lower Basin.
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