Arizona’s House Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee has passed a measure that would force the City of Scottsdale to supply the nearby community of Rio Verde Foothills with water until 2026.Residents of unincorporated Rio Verde have relied on water trucked in from Scottsdale until the city recently cut them off.On Tuesday, the House committee voted to provide a
Residents of Rio Verde Foothills are ratcheting up pressure on the city of Scottsdale after it shut off the tap to the community on Jan. 1 of this year.Now they are filing a lawsuit attempting to force the city to help them secure water temporarily. And there’s now a bill that’s been introduced at the state legislature aimed at the city which would make it liable for some of
A group of Rio Verde Foothills residents wants to stop Scottsdale from turning off the standpipe that provides hauled water to about 700 homes in the 2,400-home community northeast of
The San Carlos Apache Tribe has reached a preliminary agreement to secure a water source for the Rio Verde Foothills near Scottsdale.The one-year agreement will allow the tribe to lease up to 200-acre-feet, or about 65-million gallons, of its Central Arizona Project water allocation to Dynamite Water Company. The company will provide water to the Foothills Community which