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AZ Central
OPINION: A short-lived fight over a groundwater bill produced a big lesson for ArizonaIt's OK to disagree. But distrust makes it even harder to find the big solutions we need to solve Arizona's groundwater problems.
Casa Grande Dispatch
Legislation would change how Pinal divvies up its groundwater supplyProposed legislation would change how Pinal County’s groundwater is allocated in the future, but the bill hasn’t progressed because critics say it doesn’t address the issue in...
AZ Central
OPINION: Rural Arizona is turning into a tumbleweed. So, naturally, lawmakers ... do nothingOne day, I’m guessing the residents of Arizona will wake up and wonder: when did we lose our state? When did rural Arizona dry up and blow away?
AZ Central
Bills that would strengthen rural groundwater rules die in Arizona LegislatureTwo bills that would make it easier for state regulators and county officials to limit well-drilling and groundwater pumping have died in the Arizona Legislature despite support from lawmakers and...
Arizona Daily Star
Opinion: New groundwater legislation is encouraging, state must now follow throughGroundwater makes up about 40% of our annual water use. Across rural Arizona, those resources are at risk. In a number of basins, groundwater levels are declining rapidly, jeopardizing our rural...
KTAR
Tempe to hold Salt River Project’s annual Water Conservation ExpoFor the 13th year in a row, Arizona residents will be able to take part in Salt River Project’s Water Conservation Expo, free of charge.
AZ Central
Rising temperatures are taking a worsening toll on the Colorado River, study findsScientists have documented how climate change is sapping the Colorado River, and new research shows the river is so sensitive to warming that it could lose about one-fourth of its flow by 2050...
AZ Central
Arizona Senate committee shelves groundwater bill after impassioned debateState senators heard impassioned pleas from supporters of proposed legislation that would make it easier for Arizona water regulators to limit well-drilling in farming areas where groundwater...
az Central
How is the Verde River doing? Conservation groups give the watershed a C-plusTake a walk along the banks of the Verde River and you’ll find water cascading down gentle rapids, cottonwoods and willows rustling in the breeze, and the sounds of birds ringing out in the...
Environmental Defense Fund
This bill will protect scarce water supplies for rural Arizona, if the Legislature can pass itBreakthrough reporting by the Arizona Republic widely exposed what is perhaps one of the state’s darkest water secrets: Groundwater pumping is essentially unregulated in nearly 80%...
