River deficit could affect area farmers

By SUSAN RANDALL | Casa Grande Dispatch

Pinal CountyMARICOPA — Pinal County’s farmers face a water shortage in the next two years unless they and others in the Lower Colorado River Basin find a way to avoid it.

Guidelines were negotiated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Colorado River basin states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — in 2007 to prevent a water shortage.

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