{"id":827590,"date":"2026-08-27T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827590\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:10:36","slug":"gilbert-accelerates-drinking-water-well-program-amid-colorado-river-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827590\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbert accelerates drinking water well program amid Colorado River uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GILBERT, AZ \u2014 Gilbert says it&#8217;s preparing for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilbertaz.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/6907\/352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">less water <\/a>from the Colorado river.<\/p>\n<p>The town says it anticipates a 20% cut to its Colorado River supply starting in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The town says Colorado River water currently makes up about 41% of Gilbert&#8217;s supply.<\/p>\n<p>To build up its backup supply, the town is spending about $116 million on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilbertaz.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/6909\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight new drinking water wells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Five have completed construction, and all eight are expected to be complete by the middle of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Each well can provide about 2 million gallons of water a day.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video in the player above for an inside look at how Gilbert is preparing for less water from the Colorado River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GILBERT, AZ \u2014 Gilbert says it&#8217;s preparing for less water from the Colorado river. The town says it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15838,350577,45487,192,195490,350578,79,45397,350579],"class_list":["post-827590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-colorado-river","tag-colorado-river-supply","tag-drinking-water","tag-environment","tag-gilbert","tag-gilbert-drinking-water-well-program","tag-science","tag-water-supply","tag-well-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}