Arizona limits building as groundwater dries up

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 02, 2023 2:54 pm

LOS ANGELES: New houses that rely on dwindling groundwater supplies around one of the United States' biggest cities are to be banned, officials said Thursday, in a sign of the strains that drought and climate change are causing across the US west.

Water managers in Arizona say there is a significant shortfall in the Phoenix area, and that any more development in the fast-growing city must rely on other sources of water — such as under-strain rivers.

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