Enriching our desert life
Central Arizona Project
Susan Bitter Smith speaks about celebrating the lining of the All American Canal.
July 03, 2009
Welcome
Central Arizona Project is designed to bring about 1.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water per year to Pima, Pinal and Maricopa counties. CAP carries water from Lake Havasu near Parker to the southern boundary of the San Xavier Indian Reservation southwest of Tucson. It is a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines and is the largest single resource of renewable water supplies in the state of Arizona.
In 1993, the Arizona State Legislature provided the CAP with authority to provide replenishment services within its three-county service area. These authorities are commonly referred to as the Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District or CAGRD.
H2O4U is an interactive, online educational game for middle school and high school students. Participants who complete the entire game will be entered in a drawing to win $1,000 education scholarships to the university or technical school of their choice.
In response to its 2006 Strategic Plan, CAP created Project Add Water in 2007 in an effort to establish a collaborative process to determine when new supplies need to be acquired and how those supplies could be shared.
CAWCD's Recharge Program was established with the principal goal of protecting the economy and welfare of the State of Arizona
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