Tucson City Council approves new rules for large quantity water users

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The Tucson City Council passed new rules to establish an ordinance regarding the large quantity water user program.

It has to do with water service applications for exceptionally large quantity water users within the Tucson Water service area.

At this time, no single customer within Tucson Water uses enough water on a monthly basis to be considered a large quantity user.

Councilman Paul Cunningham of Ward 2 said they’re planning for future customers – such as data centers – whose water usage might significantly exceed average consumption levels.

“We’ll probably have to tweak it, and make some minor changes here and there down the road, or even some major changes, but right now, we need to make this happen, and we need to do it with urgency,” Cunningham said.