Government Goings-on

—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...

—Alan Dulaney One of the most important pieces of the puzzle needed to get Pinal County agriculture to support the Drought Contingency Plan was mitigation of the impact of the...

—Alan Dulaney The Arizona Legislature is still in session. Last Friday was the last day to hear bills in committee, although they may still be heard on the floor until...

—Alan Dulaney The struggle to gain legislative approval for the Lower Basin Drought Contingency Plan consumed everyone’s attention for months, but other things were quietly on the move at the...

—Alan Dulaney At 5:30 PM on January 31, Governor Ducey signed the joint resolution and associated bills to allow Arizona to sign on to the Drought Contingency Plan, hours before...