Sustainable Tucson’s Sustainability Spotlight: Early Arizona Politics and the Central Arizona Project

Sustainable Tucson’s Sustainability Spotlight
Early Arizona Politics and the Central Arizona Project
With Julia Fonseca, Madrean Resources
Tuesday, June 9, 6:00-7:15 pm
Online

Join Sustainable Tucson for our June Sustainability Spotlight, “Early Arizona Politics and the Central Arizona Project.” Our speaker, Julia Fonseca, is a hydrologist, now consulting as Madrean Resources. She will show how decisions made long ago structure the contemporary debates among the Colorado Basin states today. Her presentation explores early politics internal to Arizona to explain some of our current situation. Knowing early history helps explain why our state took so long to receive and utilize its full share of Colorado River water, and why users of the Central Arizona Project are so vulnerable to shortages on the river. This presentation will conclude with some information about Arizona’s recent strategies for dealing with shortages. Opportunity for questions will follow. The program will be on Zoom. Find more information and the Zoom link for the meeting on our website (www.sustainabletucson.org) or on our Facebook page or Meetup group.