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Crossposting from yesterday’s thread where Phoenix is somehow getting held up as the platonic ideal of water responsibility:

> Phoenix has made strides, but largely because it started from such a low, low bar. Exemplified by the Navajo Generating Plant, one of the largest coal fired power plants ever built, just to power pumps for lifting Colorado River water 2900ft up to Phoenix.

> Not to mention the damage to the Colorado, which no longer has enough flow to reach the ocean. That “Net groundwater contributor” comment? It’s because Phoenix drains the Colorado and pumps it into the city’s private aquifers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27556422

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The Colorado is a far more complicated discussion to have. Arizona contributes to overuse with the CAP, but it's a bit misleading to frame that discussion without bringing in the wider context of border politics, the all-american canal, and how the CAP water gets used.

As for the NGS, you're aware that it was built after hydro was (rightly) rejected by environmental groups in the 70s and has already been torn down?