Efforts are currently underway to establish regional water supply agencies to serve two Arizona urban areas: Tucson and Phoenix. Already authorized by the…
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Enacted in 1980, Arizona's Groundwater Management Act (GMA) is a decade old. The tenyear anniversary of the GMA provides an appropriate opportunity to review…
Semiarid, with a scarcity of water resources, Arizona might seem an unlikely state to be threatened by flooding. Flooding in Arizona, however, does indeed pose…
Although many and varied, all sources of water pollution are classified as either point or nonpoint. Pollution comes from a point source if its origins are…
A concern for Indian water rights has come to be one of the nation's most important water resource issues. Its importance is demonstrated by the fact that…
The changing of the Earth's climate, which is a topic of increasing concern, is a cornplex issue. Much more than a meteorological phenomenon, climate is a…
Arizona's natural attractions include deserts, mountains and canyons. Although not as noticed, another important natural feature is the state's perennial…
In its effort to best use all its available water supplies, Arizona must do more than conserve water. The state must also identify and develop new water…
That water, so common, essential and basic, should be a cornmodity to be bought and sold, marketed and transferred, may seem odd. Yet social and economic…
The U.S.-Mexico boundary is a political division and, although surveyed, mapped and patrolled, cannot completely determine the two nations' rights to the water…
The Arizona Groundwater Management Act (GMA) of 1980 confronts a problem that has concerned state officials since the early 1930s the overdraft of Arizona's…
C ure and simple" is an expression that does not fit when water quality is the topic. To assure the delivery of good quality, pure water is not a simple matter…
The continued funding of the Central Arizona Project depended upon Arizona implementing water conservation measures in several critical areas in the state.…
One of the most significant environmental events to occur in Arizona over the last several years is the enactment of the new state Environmental Quality Act…
The Arizona Department of Water Resources (DWR) mailed more than 570,000 certified letters to property owners in the Lower Gua River Watershed The certified…
