Government Goings-on

The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD) has been for 20 years the legal mechanism by which subdivisions based on mined groundwater can have that groundwater replenished by someone else...

Welcome to the party, California!  In September, Governor Jerry Brown signed three pieces of legislation that for the first time in 164 years will try to regulate California’s use of...

Just a few weeks ago, a former corporate board treasurer (6 years) alerted me to a new federal regulation. The U.S. Forest Service has issued a new directive applicable to...

In April, the EPA and the Corps of Engineers jointly put out a draft rule under the Clean Water Act.  The rule addresses exactly what is meant by “waters of the...

A flurry of articles has descended upon us following the description of what might happen if, as described last month, water level elevations at Lake Mead fall below 1000 ft. ...

Drought can kick operational structures in the teeth.  The water budget for Lake Mead has become unbalanced due to the extended drought.  Legal demands from the three Lower Basin states...

The Arizona Legislature wrapped up its session last week.  Little harm was done in water issues.  Now let’s look at what is happening at the Federal level. When first enacted,...

Arizona, California, and Nevada aren’t the only Western states to share a river.  A couple of weeks ago, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado attended the annual meeting of the Rio...