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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Wufei Yu and Hannah Schoenbaum

Grand Canyon water supply to be restored in weeks, not months

Grand Canyon Flooding - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

National Park Service officials expect to restore a reliable water supply in the Grand Canyon in weeks — not months — as the deadly flash flood didn’t damage most of a near-complete pipeline project, they said Wednesday.

Officials said that they were just over a month away from completing a major upgrade to the sole 12.5-mile-long (20-kilometer) Transcanyon Waterline, which supplied water for millions of visitors to the Grand Canyon’s South Rim and about 1,600 residents of Grand Canyon Village.

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