Government Goings-on

—Alan Dulaney The Central Arizona Water Conservation District’s conflicts, once confined within Arizona, have now spilled across state boundaries into the Upper Colorado River Basin. The collaborative structure of the entire...

—Alan Dulaney Salvo and counter-salvo; battle is joined and every interest is defending its own water. The wheels have come off the Arizona wagon of cooperation on water issues. The...

—Alan Dulaney “Shade” is an old term signifying a ghostly suggestion of a former living presence. The shade of the Colorado River may wander the Lower Basin for decades, absent...

—Alan Dulaney Ever since the Governor’s Water Solutions Discussions essentially ended with summer, we have been waiting for the resultant legislation. And waiting. And waiting. Now it’s over, and the...

—Alan Dulaney Lots of things that were predicted to happen in 2017, didn’t. The drought didn’t end (ignore what California thinks). Lake Mead didn’t fall below water level elevations that...

—by Alan Dulaney A recent Ninth Circuit Court ruling shakes the basic structure of Western water regulation by introducing the concept of prior rights into groundwater law where it was...

—Alan Dulaney For several months, the Governor’s Water Discussion Group has been secretly discussing serious problems within the Arizona water world. “Secretly” is a misnomer, however, since everyone knew who...

—Alan Dulaney The colors change differentially in a Southwestern autumn. Aspens turn quickly at altitude, but down in the desert only the colors of the license plates are showing any...