Project uses recycled wastewater to revitalize dry river, bring back wildlife
Feb. 8, 2022
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Once dry and desolate, this riverbed in southern Arizona has been given new life.
“The idea of bringing water back to the Santa Cruz River for Tucsonans has been around for about 100 years. That's when the Santa Cruz River stopped flowing because of overpumping of the aquifer here in Tucson for the agriculture that was going on here in the early 1900s,” John Kmiec, the interim director of Tucson Water, said.
Here in the desert, every drop of water counts.