Home Grown: Ag listed as low priority for drought water cuts
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Experts with the Central Arizona Project say that we will experience a water shortage in 2022.
Today's Home Grown discusses the drought, and the quickly declining water levels.
Lake Mead is expected to have 30% less water this year.
Each water user is ranked by priority. Since ag falls lower on the totem pole, than native territories or residential areas, it might mean higher-priced produce and crop shortages.
"It's water that's currently being used by central Arizona ag today. That will be one of the first pools of water to be lost," said Mark Taylor, board member with Central Arizona Project.
The organization says residents along the Colorado River have the highest priority which includes Yuma County and the border states of Mexico like Sonora and Baja California.
