If 1,000 or so Rio Valley Foothills residents were on an Oct. 26 email chain, they would have whooped for joy and toasted with raised glasses of water.
Scottsdale was mostly on the sidelines during the first week of an Arizona Corporation Commission hearing on utility EPCOR’s proposal for providing water to the Rio Valley Foothills area.
While neither Maricopa County nor the City of Scottsdale seem to be budging and Rio Verde Foothills remains without water, residents of the county island just outside Scottsdale are optimistic
A bill to let Nestlé treat wastewater at its proposed Glendale plant and pump that water into the aquifer, earning water storage credits to draw on in the future, is raising fears that it will pit businesses against other water users.