This is the first update to Water Plan: 2000-2050 since it was issued in 2004. The substantive issues and challenges to ensuring a secure water future for our community remain largely the same and are discussed at length in the original Water Plan: 2000-2050. However, the planning timeframes within which to address these challenges have changed and are discussed in this Update. This Update also accounts for revised population projections that have since been developed, an increase in the City's Central Arizona Project allocation, and changed planning assumptions and priorities which have evolved in the last three years.
Below you will find links to the entire Update as well as to the individual sections. You will also find a link to the original Water Plan: 2000-2050. We welcome your feedback, comments, or questions. After reading this Update and/or the original Water Plan: 2000-2050, you may return to this page and send us an email by using this button:
To conserve bandwidth (and reduce your time spent waiting for a large file download), the major sections of this document are presented below as much smaller individual PDF files. If you would prefer, you may download 2008 Update to Water Plan: 2000-2050 as a single large PDF file (89 pages; 2.93 Mb) by choosing the link above.
This link will take you to the original Water Plan: 2000-2050.
For more information on how Water Plan: 2000-2050 was created, please visit our Long Range Water Resources Planning page.