2015-05-08 Can technology save us?

Since 1863, Prescott has repeatedly outgrown its water supply. Each water shortage has been “solved” in the same way: by getting water from somewhere else. Now, area cities plan to import water from the Big Chino Valley at monumental expense, while posing an unacceptable threat to the flowing Verde River. The historical solution has run dry. There is no more “somewhere else.” We need a new idea.