Arizona water chief to House panel: Easy supplies running out.

ANDREA WILSON
Cronkite News Service
PHOENIX - Tapping the ocean and seeding clouds hold promise as ways to bring more water to Arizona, but the state needs to make tough choices to ensure a sustainable supply, the state's top water official told lawmakers Thursday.
"We are spoiled by cheap, readily available water supplies, and we're going to have to start biting the bullet because we're going to run out of those supplies," Herb Guenther, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, said while briefing the House Committee on Water and Energy.
Guenther said Arizona has plenty of water now, but it isn't necessarily where it's needed. That's left areas such as Mohave County, the Verde Valley, the Mogollon Rim and the Coconino Plateau in northern Arizona and the upper San Pedro region in southern Arizona needing to import water to have sustainable supplies, he said.

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