Government Goings-on

—Alan Dulaney Looking back, some important things came out of 2019.  The Drought Contingency Plan legislation was signed, the Water Augmentation, Innovation, and Conservation Council was created, and the Bureau...

—Alan Dulaney On January 31, 2019 — the same day he signed the Drought Contingency Plan legislation —Governor Ducey created the Water Augmentation, Innovation, and Conservation Council by issuing Executive...

—Alan Dulaney Every business must utilize resources available in the most efficient manner possible in order to lower costs and make the enterprise flourish. This is particularly true for agribusiness...

—Alan Dulaney It is a warmer and drier era; the sun shines relentlessly and the wind blows freely. In the new era, these sources generate electrical energy, but only during...

—Alan Dulaney Basic facts: Some 36% of Arizona’s total water use stems from the Colorado River. About 40% is groundwater, only 3% is reclaimed water, and the remaining 21% of...

—Alan Dulaney Arizonans outside the Active Management Areas are always suspicious of moves to regulate what they consider to be theirs, like groundwater. They opted out of regulation under the...

—Alan Dulaney Last month, I wrote about how reluctant the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seemed to be setting standards for the groups of compounds lumped as poly- or per-fluoroalkyl substances,...

—Alan Dulaney The Drought Contingency Plan was signed by all seven Basin states and the Department of the Interior on May 20, 2019, at Hoover Dam. Done is done. But...