Simone Kjolsrud, the person in charge of making sure Chandler residents have plenty of water for the future, says the ongoing dispute over Colorado River water is not what keeps her up at night.
And that includes videos of the Arizona Canal Project running dry, something experts call “deadpool.”
“I feel less concerned about deadpool,” said Kjolsrud, Chandler’s water resources manager. “What keeps me up at night is what’s going to happen to our aquifer when we have increased groundwater pumping when we have severe Colorado River cuts?”…