Residents of a community just outside Scottsdale are feuding with the city they long depended on for water now, that the Phoenix suburb has cut off their supply.
PHOENIX — Residents of a community just outside Scottsdale, Arizona are feuding with the city they long depended on for water now that the Phoenix suburb has cut off their supply, saying it needs to guarantee there is enough for its own residents amid a deep, long-lasting drought.
Scottsdale turned off its longstanding supply of water to the community on Jan. 1, calling the cutoff permanent. Several hundred residents are now using up the last of the Scottsdale water that haulers delivered in late December to the 5,000-gallon tanks buried in their yards, but said at a public gathering last week they expect it will dry up soon.
Residents now expect to pay much higher prices for water haulers to fetch their water from jurisdictions farther away. Scottsdale warned of a possible cutoff for several years and said it gave Rio Verde Foothills residents and Maricopa County plenty of warning that it wouldn’t provide water forever. Because the community doesn't have a reservoir or community well, the haulers would buy water from Scottsdale fill stations and then deliver it for a fee to Rio Verde Foothills residents.
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