Government Goings-on

The rural/urban divide in Arizona is palpably real. The antipathy of farmers and ranchers for any proposal to manage groundwater, despite declining water level elevations in several groundwater basins, has...

One of the major failures of the last legislative session was the failure to address issues of groundwater overpumping in rural Arizona. Water policy experts, who mostly work in Phoenix...

The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) has declared the Lower Colorado River Basin to be in a Tier 1 shortage condition for 2025. Releases from Lake Powell to Lake Mead will...

The Arizona Legislature has done its work for 2024, declared sine die, and hit the campaign trail. Governor Hobbs has by now passed judgement on the various water-related bills that...

When Hernan Cortes arrived at Tenochtitlan in 1519, the city sat in the middle of five lakes, connected to the mainland by three causeways. The lakes were largely replenished by...

Everyone has known for years that negotiations between the seven states that comprise the Colorado River Compact to replace the 2007 shortage-sharing guidelines would be difficult. But 2026 is fast...

Outside of springs, the most common means of accessing groundwater is via a well. A few bills directly related to wells have been introduced in this session of the Arizona...

The number of bills related to water in the current session of the Arizona Legislature is simply staggering. Using the search criteria “assured water” brought up 317 bills. Not all...