Click the link to read the article on the KJZZ website (Alex Hager). Here’s an excerpt:
October 28, 2026
…this tense moment and this 21st century crisis are not showing up as a complete surprise. In fact, the architects of that canal system gave explicit warnings that its position near the front of the line for cutbacks would mean lower flows in the future. The warnings they issued in the 1960s appear to have been largely ignored in the decades since, and the fingerprints of their ambition are still shaping the headlines of today…Phoenix and Tucson as we know them today wouldn’t exist without a gravity-defying, 336-mile system of canals, pipelines and pumping plants that cut through the desert, collectively known as the Central Arizona Project, or CAP. Today, water shortages threaten the expensive, improbable system, and a series of warnings about the canal’s future from the 1960s, seem prescient.