The $233 million pact with the Gila River Indian Community is part of a broader effort to get states that rely on the Colorado River to substantially lessen their water use.
Climate experts caution that the favorable drought maps in the Southwest represent only a blip on the radar as the long-term effects of a stubborn drought persist.
The Gila River tribe, by comparison, is allocated 653,000 acre-feet per year. It committed to give up about one-fifth of its allocation until 2025. Officials said an exceptional series of wet winter storms that have swept from the Pacific Ocean into California and the West this year will not be enough to break a megadrought that scientists call the worst in 1,200 years. The dry spell has led to concerns that hydropower plants could go dry and water deliveries could stop for farms that grow crops for the rest of the nation.
Officials with the cities of Chandler, Glendale, Mesa, Phoenix, Tempe, and Scottsdale have begun some stages of drought protocols.
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