Government Goings-on

The Arizona Legislature remains in session, and water-related bills continue to be debated and voted upon. One bill could signal a shift in the way the groundwater resources of remote...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), which is responsible for managing the Colorado River system as a whole, published its long-awaited draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in early January 2026....

The Arizona Legislature has convened again for its second regular session. Several bills have been introduced, and many are water-related. One legislator alone has dropped 71 bills as of February...

Just before Christmas, about 1700 people met in Las Vegas at the annual meeting of the Colorado River Water Users Association (CRWUA).  Apparently, no one was feeling festive.  Everyone was...

Well, they blew it.  The November 11 deadline, set by the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), for the seven states that share the Colorado River to come up with a new...

With a prodigious yawn, the Cowardly Lion sat up in the field of summer poppies in which he had fallen asleep.  Noting its recent covering with snow, he remarked “Mighty...

Fall is upon us, and in the higher elevations the aspen leaves are beginning to turn golden.  Soon the cottonwoods along the rivers of the Southwest will follow suit, and...

The antipathy of farmers and ranchers for any proposal to manage groundwater, despite declining water level elevations in several groundwater basins, has proven a hindrance to various management proposals. The...