1. How can we make sure that Chandler (and Arizona) gets enough water?
What do we need to know to answer this question?

2. Where does our water in Chandler come from?

3. The water supply comes primarily from the Salt River Project (SRP) which brings water by canal and pipeline from the Salt and Verde Rivers, and the Central Arizona Project (CAP)which transports Colorado River water.
Where does this water come form?

4. From the Colorado Watershed
A watershed is an area of land from which all the water drains to the same location such as a stream, pond, lake, river, wetland or estuary.
A watershed can be large, like the Colorado River drainage basin, or very small, such all the water that drains to a small farm pond.

5. The Mighty Colorado Its headwaters are in Colorado and Wyoming.
Drains through portions of 7 US states and 2 Mexican states.

6. Split Into Two
Upper Basin and Lower Basin
How is this water shared?

7. What’s the problem?
Sometimes water is used faster than it can be replaced by precipitation.

8. What’s the problem?
According to the Arizona Department of Water Resources, Arizona continues to experience extreme to severe drought conditions.
The snowpack is so thin in parts of Colorado that the government has declared an “extreme drought”
Reservoirs are 65% full