CAP water faces 77% cuts, Oak Flat transferred to Rio Tinto & the Chávez reckoning reshapes communities. AZPM’s Press Room maps Southern Arizona’s crises.
💧 Agua, Cobre, y Rendición de Cuentas: The Press Room Maps the Crises Bearing Down on the Borderlands
Step outside in Tucson this late March and you can feel it; the sun already biting like it’s June, the desert air carrying that particular dryness that sits in the back of your throat and reminds you: el agua no es garantizada.
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The Colorado River snowpack is collapsing ahead of schedule.
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A sacred Apache ceremonial site just got handed to a multinational mining corporation.
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A labor icon’s legacy is in ruins.
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And the data centers keep coming, thirsty as ever.
This week on AZPM’s The Press Room, host and news director David Lee convened a panel of the journalists and experts doing the most serious work on Southern Arizona’s overlapping crises…