PHOENIX– Terry Goddard, president of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board of Directors, calls the state of the Colorado River “depressing” and is suspicious of other states’ involvement in a speech about the river.
Venture Café Phoenix hosted Goddard for a conversational event titled The State of the Colorado River, where Goddard broke down water management decisions for the public on Sept. 10.
The Colorado Compact requires, by federal law, that upper basin states- Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado- must release water to the lower basin states, Arizona, Nevada and California, as part of the agreement…