Government Goings-on

Sometimes government actions work as intended, and sometimes they don’t. In the arena of water politics, especially in a time of extended drought, miscalculated moves can have unforeseen consequences. The...

The last day to introduce a bill in the First Regular Session of the Arizona Legislature was February 21.  This date has come and gone. According to the Arizona Department...

Negotiations depend on the interested parties actually talking to one another. Amongst the seven states of the Colorado River Basin, there doesn’t appear to be a lot of talking going...

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...