PHOENIX — Central Arizona Project (CAP) delivers water to about 90% of the state’s population.

CAP is a 336-mile system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines that carries Colorado River water to Arizona’s most-populated regions.

Terry Goddard, president of CAP, is worried about how operations will have to be restructured if Arizona gets shorted in when new Colorado River operating guidelines are finalized next year.

The basin states first agreed to Colorado River operating guidelines in 2007 when they anticipated future water shortages. When the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation made the original allocations, they believed the river could be relied on 18-20 million acre-feet of water. But now, the figure is around half that amount, at 10-11 million-acre feet, resulting in ongoing

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