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In July 2011, the last new determination of assured Water Supply was issued in the Arizona Water Company's Pinal Valley water system, it's fastest-growing water system. This was the canary in the coal mine for what would eventually be a complete shutdown of any new determinations of Assured water supply anywhere in the Pinal Active Management Area (AMA). During this webinar, Fred Schneider, President of Arizona Water Company, and Terri Sue C. Rossi, Vice-President of Water Resources for Arizona Water Company, will chronicle their journey starting in October 2019, when the State revealed that, based on groundwater models, there was over 8 million acre-feet of unmet demand in the Pinal AMA. By June 2021, the State would make clear that no new determinations of assured water supply would be approved in the Pinal AMA, as the groundwater basin was overallocated. Less than a year later, a similar determination would be made in the Phoenix AMA. This WRRC Water Webinar tells the story of how Arizona Water Company would collaborate with the State and other stakeholders to develop a new path for securing a designation of assured water supply for its Pinal Valley water system that honors existing assured water supply determinations, opens the door for new developments and provides an assured water supply for two thriving communities and the vast areas surrounding these communities located in central Pinal County.