Government Goings-on

The Western United States is not the only region on the planet where conflicts over water supplies can be found. As water becomes more scarce, the competition for that resource...

It always comes back to the Colorado River. The clock is inexorably counting down to 2026, when a new agreement between the seven Basin states, plus Mexico, must be finalized...

Little has been accomplished in this legislative session regarding water. Despite the large number of bills introduced in the current session, very few have actually passed both houses of the...

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...