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Are We Using The Wrong Words To Talk About Our Water Supply?

There’s been a lot of talk about drought recently across Arizona and the West – especially with the relatively dry winter we’ve been having. But my next guest wishes we didn’t use the “d” word as much as we do.

Tom Philp is strategic communications and policy adviser for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and he’s written about how we may need a new lexicon to talk about our current water situation. Philp joins me.

Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.