Lake Mead will operate at a Tier-2a shortage at the beginning of next year meaning Arizona will have to forfeit more water.
Farmers in Southern Arizona have been dealing with previous cuts from the Colorado River water supply since January.
“That’s a 75,000-acre irrigation district and at our height we were selling a little over 400,000-acre-feet of water. Now we’re down to 140,000-acre-feet of water if we pump our wells really hard,” Burruel said.“It’s got long tentacles and we’re not near anywhere the end of the cutbacks if things don’t improve soon,” said Burruel.
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