Winter Storms Improve Arizona's Water Outlook

[ben_meyers]

Maybe there is some hope yet.

Arizona's water supply is in good shape after recent rains and snow, but the drought of the past decade still isn't over.

However, Charlie Ester with Salt River Project said in the past few weeks there's been ``an incredible turnaround from even as early ago as November."

He said the water supply looks good for this summer.

``We're at 86 percent full and all of our projections indicate that we should be very near 100 percent full, probably by early April," Ester said.

The snowpack over the SRP watershed is 131 percent of normal, and the precipitation for the year so far is 125 percent of normal, according to Ester.

http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=731777
http://www.srpwater.com/dwr/report.asp?dt=2/13/2008


When I first got here 6 years ago the reservoirs were at about 41% full. SRP has been releasing water to make room for a record snow pack. I am willing to send any more rain and cold weather to Georgia

[Bobbieo]

1. Good for us with another cloudy day in Yuma!!!

[phantom power]

2. Good news about the snowpack. That's the "real" reservoir.

I'm afraid that the response to this has been "super! wee can keep adding subdivisions after all!" Although the housing meltdown is keeping the brakes on development as well.