Interesting article in the Star about possible shortages on the CAP canal.

"For decades, most water experts have expected the Central Arizona Project to eventually run short, as population growth outstripped the supply of the Colorado River that long ago was over-allocated among the seven states dependent on it.

Now, that day could be nearing. Officials are warning that the first CAP shortage could arrive in two years, due in part to a poor snowpack in Rocky Mountain states this winter, on top of the river basin's worst 10-year drought on the historical record."

Read the whole thing.