PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is building new homes on the fast-growing edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area, which is dependent on groundwater after years of overuse and decades of drought have depleted its water supply. will not approve.
At a press conference on Thursday, Gov. Katie Hobbs announced a moratorium on new construction affecting some of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in the nation’s fifth-largest city.
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