2016-07-26 Groundwater Regulation: The Next Big Thing
Description
There is a clear and urgent need for new groundwater regulations in rural Arizona.
Because 87 percent of Arizona’s land area is not managed by the Arizona Groundwater Management Act, groundwater in unregulated aquifers (including the Big Chino) can be pumped by landowners subject to only two simple criteria: the water must be for “beneficial and reasonable use.”
To learn more, view a pdf of CWAG's monthly column in the Daily Courier, published July 26, 2016.