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Why it's so hard for some cities to get off groundwater

Most of metro Phoenix has a designation of Assured Water Supply. It recognizes that a water provider has secured the water it needs to serve existing...

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Proposed water plant could be among world's largest

Phoenix’s effort to send ultra-purified recycled water directly to taps could be among the largest in the world. And that could profoundly impact...

26.04.2024 10

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Abortion law applies to miscarriages. That won't stand

My first pregnancy, with identical twins, was not viable. I learned at 10 weeks that I would eventually miscarry. In fact, my doctor told me, my body...

10.04.2024 10

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Think corporate agriculture is draining Arizona? Not exactly

You may have seen stories lamenting that corporate agriculture is squeezing out the little guy. Family farms are disappearing, the headlines tell us,...

27.03.2024 3

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What dueling Colorado River plans mean for Arizona

What a difference a year makes. This time last year, Arizona and Nevada were united with Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah on the idea that...

08.03.2024 5

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Maybe efforts to regulate water aren't quite DOA

Outwardly, a fierce battle is raging over how to manage water supplies in areas of Arizona that lack regulation. Critics on both sides are pressing...

23.02.2024 10

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Water regulation has devolved into a game of chicken

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05.02.2024 10

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Gov. Hobbs throws a grenade into Arizona water debate

Gov. Katie Hobbs wants to play hardball. She told lawmakers in her State of the State address that if they didn’t act on rural groundwater use, she...

25.01.2024 3

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Quiet water deal paves way for thousands of new homes

Home construction hasn’t stopped in Pinal County, even if it is steadily depleting its stash of subdivisions with enough water to build. In fact,...

23.01.2024 5

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How Arizona's plan to fix the Colorado River might work

A new proposal from the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada would base future Colorado River cuts on how much water is in the system,...

11.01.2024 10

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My biggest water worry? It's not our dwindling supplies

Someone recently asked what worries me most about water. My answer wasn’t a dwindling Colorado River, the lack of controls on rural groundwater or...

09.01.2024 20

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If lawmakers don't act on water, Hobbs says she will

Some of the strongest words in Gov. Katie Hobbs’ conciliatory State of the State speech came on water: “And to those who have spent years refusing...

09.01.2024 9

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How much water are some Arizona farms using?

Arizona has 51 groundwater basins. Yet new studies estimate that agriculture in just five of them used nearly 420,000 acre-feet of water in 2022....

12.12.2023 9

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Can Arizona avoid these landmines to fix its water woes?

Gov. Katie Hobbs stood before her newly created water policy council in May and essentially said, “Don’t be like the folks who came before you.”...

07.12.2023 40

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Why aren't we already drinking recycled water?

Phoenix and Scottsdale are considering plans to recycle water for drinking in the next few years. The tap water that emerges from this Advanced Water...

05.12.2023 6

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This water fight gave us a black eye. When will it heal?

Don’t underestimate how much of a black eye the Rio Verde Foothills saga has been for Arizona. Cities that had nothing to do with this water fight...

21.11.2023 4

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Why the message from school election results is so murky

I hope all of you voted in Tuesday’s election. But, more likely, many of you did not. The bonds and budget overrides that dominated the ballot...

09.11.2023 10

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How will Arizona ensure it's safe to drink recycled water?

Who would’ve guessed that most Arizonans are willing to drink recycled water? A whopping 70% of those surveyed in May said they would. But what...

03.11.2023 9

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No, we're not done fixing Lake Mead for the short term

Now that we’re knee-deep in the long-term process to save the Colorado River, almost no one is asking whether we’ve done enough to stabilize it...

01.11.2023 7

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Would you drink recycled water? Why we're asking now

One day — maybe in only a few years — recycled wastewater could flow out of your tap. This future excites me, because I know what it means for...

31.10.2023 5

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How our beer with recycled water was brewed

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28.10.2023 6

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How far are we willing to go to fix Lake Mead?

It’s widely agreed that the rules we set nearly 20 years ago to protect Lake Powell and Lake Mead didn’t go far enough. The shortage tiers we...

24.10.2023 2

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Why Arizona cannot just let its pine forests burn

It’s hard to believe that what we now call the Dude Fire burn scar once was a ponderosa pine forest. Thousands of acres at the edge of the Mogollon...

19.10.2023 2

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Want rural water regulations? Don't hold your breath

Arizona needs some ground rules for water use in the areas that have none. Nothing that would put folks out of business or end their way of life. Just...

18.10.2023 2

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A Saudi farm must leave Butler Valley. But is that it?

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04.10.2023 1

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Is artificial turf too hot for metro Phoenix? Maybe not

More cities are joining the war on non-functional grass — the kind that is simply there for looks, not function. They are offering more aggressive...

03.10.2023 2

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How do you find a stealthy water leak?

If you’ve lived in metro Phoenix for any length of time, you’ve probably had a stealthy water leak. You know, the ones that persist for weeks,...

28.09.2023 1

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Why we're using beer to tell Phoenix's water story

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25.09.2023 2

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Buckeye nixed 6,000 homes, but will that save water?

Tartesso, a giant development taking shape in Buckeye, has nixed more than 6,000 housing units from its plans. Its developers recently got the...

21.09.2023 2

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New reports show how deeply the pandemic hurt students

My kid started kindergarten in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. I know from living it that students are still struggling — in our case, with...

15.09.2023 2

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Why hasn't Arizona done more to rein in groundwater use?

Why hasn’t Arizona done more to rein in groundwater use? The short answer is that we lack the political will. But there’s more to it than that....

08.09.2023 1

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