{"id":1946990,"date":"2023-06-14T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-bring-water-back-to-unincorporated-town\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:46:04","slug":"arizona-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-bring-water-back-to-unincorporated-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-bring-water-back-to-unincorporated-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona passes bill to restore water to town."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-bring-water-back-to-unincorporated-town%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1946990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Solve Water Crisis in Small Town<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe people of the Rio Verde Foothills can sleep more soundly this evening knowing that the bill to provide them water until a private company sets up a permanent supply passed out of the legislature and will probably be signed by the governor,\u201d Republican state Sen. John Kavanagh said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Rio Verde Foothills, a small unincorporated town in Arizona, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bruce-springsteen-jeep-celebrity-spokesman-arrested-for-dwi\/\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen, Jeep Celebrity Spokesman, Arrested For DWI\">made headlines earlier<\/a> this year when the city of Scottsdale announced that it would no longer be providing water for the town. With a population of 1,000 people and 500-700 homes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-bring-water-back-to-unincorporated-town\/\" title=\"Arizona passes bill to restore water to town.\">situation highlighted wider issues<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-faces-worse-drought-since-1977\/\" title=\"Calif. faces worse drought since 1977\">water access<\/a> that the western United States is experiencing, which has continued to worsen amid droughts.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Arizona legislature has taken action to rectify the problem by passing Senate Bill 1432 in a bipartisan supermajority vote in both chambers. The bill aims to restore water access to the town and will now go to Gov. Katie Hobbs&#8217;s (D-AZ) desk to sign.<\/p>\n<h3>Restoring Water Access<\/h3>\n<p>The bill will restore water access through Scottsdale, which agreed to provide water through the EPCOR private water company if the government serves as the go-between, the Arizona Daily Independent reported. The solution will be in place for roughly two years as EPCOR builds a standpipe for Rio Verde itself, which will allow it to become independent from Scottsdale&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-fla-authorities-investigating-hack-on-pinellas-county-water-supply\/\" title=\"FBI, Fla. authorities investigating hack on Pinellas County water supply\">water supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe journey to passage was complicated, twisting, and fraught with disappointment. But in the end, a reasonable bill was passed. It gives the people of the Rio Verde Foothills water and contains all of the assurances and protections that the City of Scottsdale requested,\u201d said Sen. Kavanagh.<\/p>\n<h3>Dispelling False Rumors<\/h3>\n<p>Sen. Kavanagh also hopes that the bill will dispel the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangerous-for-democracy-mitt-romney-lashes-out-at-josh-hawley-and-ted-cruz-for-pushing-back-against-stolen-election\/\" title=\"\u201cDangerous for Democracy\u201d \u2013 Mitt Romney Lashes Out at Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz for Pushing Back Against Stolen Election\">false rumor<\/a> that Arizona is running out of water, which can harm the state&#8217;s economy development and future prosperity. Since January, residents of Rio Verde have had to resort to flushing toilets with rainwater, doing laundry at neighbors&#8217; homes, and lugging water from far away distances. With the passing of this bill, the people of Rio Verde can finally have access to clean water and a more secure future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restores water access to small town in Arizona<\/li>\n<li>Passed in bipartisan supermajority vote in both chambers<\/li>\n<li>Scottsdale will provide water through EPCOR private water company<\/li>\n<li>Standpipe will be built for Rio Verde to become independent from Scottsdale&#8217;s water supply<\/li>\n<li>Dispels false rumors about Arizona running out of water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>water to the Rio Verde Foothills. To address the crisis, Arizona&#8217;s state legislature passed a bill to provide funding for a new water infrastructure project in the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1946991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4472,5448,4766,9167,5994],"class_list":["post-1946990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-arizona","tag-passes","tag-restore","tag-town","tag-water"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}