Save the Verde River, part FOUR

Verde means "green," and that's just what the Verde River is, but the Verde is in trouble. The rapidly growing cities of Prescott, Prescott Valley, and Chino Valley plan to tap the Big Chino aquifer, which supplies more than 80 percent of the upper Verde spring flow. These communities would remove upward of 13 million gallons of water per day and transport it through 45 miles of pipeline to quench the thirst of numerous new developments. More developments proposed for Yavapai County have designs on the same water, and pumping from the aquifer could quadruple within the next 20 years. If this happens, the entire river, along with all the species that depend on it, will be fatally affected.

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