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Mesa has valid reasons to raise monthly water bills by about $4, on average, next year. There are several key projects coming online to shore up the...
These are volatile times on the Colorado River, even if water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell are relatively stable. The rules expire at the end...
I’ve clearly been watching too much Neil deGrasse Tyson. Because when I read about Gov. Katie Hobbs’ plan to revamp an arm of the state’s...
Most voters weren’t thinking about Arizona’s water supply when they voted for president or Congress. But the election results could impact pending...
Plenty of folks woke up this morning feeling angry, disappointed and bewildered. Me? I am relieved. And, no, it has nothing to do with who won. People...
Who will win the election? You know it’s tight when polls are statistical dead heats and even the paid prognosticators are couching their...
Arizona is considering the most significant change in decades to its Assured Water Supply program, which helps ensure that new growth has acquired...
Batten down the hatches: Willcox may be the first community in Arizona to be told what kind of water regulation it will have. State law has long...
Not sure what to do about the Central Arizona Water Conservation District candidates on your ballot? Here’s a quick rundown: There are two...
A local Republican legislative district is urging fellow GOP voters to use a mail-in ballot. “Did you know 350,000 Republicans left their green...
Few Arizona voters have met the judges on the Nov. 5 ballot. We don’t follow their cases and haven’t sat in their courtrooms. But — like most...
It might seem like things are smooth sailing on the Colorado River. We haven’t seen headlines about its largest reservoir, Lake Mead, heading for an...
Darryl and Kathleen Toupkin of Scottsdale have gone to the far edges of the earth — literally — to accomplish their goal. They visited their first...
It’s widely believed that Active Management Areas (AMAs) are too stringent to work in rural Arizona. The rules are too prescriptive, the argument...
We have a good story to tell about the Colorado River (I know. Since when have I typed those words?) Consider where we are: Lake Mead and Lake Powell...
Once a decade, the Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District must decide how much water it must put back into the aquifer to offset the...
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GOP lawmakers have grown impatient with Gov. Katie Hobbs’ 2023 “pause” on new subdivisions in areas of metro Phoenix that rely on groundwater....
You might think that if we’re going to drink recycled wastewater, we should throw as many regulations at it as possible. But a mound of stipulations...
Liberty Utilities, a private water provider that serves more than 20,000 homes and businesses in parts of Avondale, Glendale, Goodyear and Litchfield...
The Water Infrastructure Finance Authority is clapping back at state leaders who stripped them of cash in this year’s budget. But you might not hear...
Arizona has diverse voices at its water negotiating table, and that’s a good thing. We get better policy when broad swaths of water users —...
This was the legislative session that wasn’t on water. Oh, everyone talked a good game. Gov. Katie Hobbs kicked off the session warning lawmakers...
It’s disappointing — but not at all surprising — that lawmakers and the governor want to completely sweep money that had previously been...
TSMC Arizona looks like an imposing factory from Interstate 17. And it’s even bigger when you drive by on Loop 303, a series of giant buildings...
Navajo and Hopi are hardly friends. Yet they have unanimously agreed to a deal that could finally bring running water to thousands of tribal homes...
It’s nearly impossible these days to build a single-family home in metro Phoenix for under $400,000. And that’s a problem, considering that the...
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...
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...
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...
You may have seen stories lamenting that corporate agriculture is squeezing out the little guy. Family farms are disappearing, the headlines tell us,...
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...
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...
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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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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.”...
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...