For Star subscribers: Tucson will consider measures such as limiting times for outdoor watering and limiting swimming pool sizes to help close an impending gap between water supply and demand.
Tony Davis Time-of-day watering restrictions, pool size limits, limits on golf course irrigation and requirements for draining pool water into the sewers are all under consideration at Tucson City Hall.
People are also reading… And outside water experts said in interviews they believe these won’t be the last cuts Tucson will face in the next three years as the seven Colorado River Basin states, including Arizona, continue negotiating a much larger package of water use curbs. ‘Continue pushing ourselves’Romero announced the city will leave more than one-third of its CAP drinking water supply in Lake Mead this year to raise the water level of the long-declining reservoir at the Arizona-Nevada border.
But Dahl, Kozachik and Romero all agreed Friday the city should try to conserve water first to fill any demand-supply shortfall. “But I do have confidence in city residents. We’ve been a leader in this. Our water consumption is lower than it was when we had this conversation three decades ago. We’ve done a good job. We need to do a better job,” Kozachik said.
But those cities have far more grassy lawns than Tucson has, which could limit water savings such measures could achieve here, Ortega’s memo said. Whatever federal money the city does get for leaving the water in Lake Mead, Romero said, “my intention as the mayor is to make sure we are continuing to invest in water conservation methods and technology for further conservation.”
‘Watching the river run dry’Dahl and Kozachik also said they believe the 110,000 acre-feet won’t be the only water the city leaves in Lake Mead in the next few years, meaning still more conservation measures may be needed. “We don’t know how deep the cuts might be,” and ADWR officials also don’t know what will be coming in a draft environmental report from the Bureau of Reclamation outlining what cuts it will suggest, he said. “Cuts could exceed the volumes in those agreements.”
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