2008-03-02 CWAG/ADWR Safe Yield Debate
Description
The Arizona Department of Water Resources [ADWR] in 1998 declared the Prescott Active Management Area to be groundwater mining and said it must reach a state of safe-yield by 2025. Recently [at the time this column was written] the state said it is a guideline rather than a deadline with consequences if the area does not meet it. Should local governments face legal consequences for not meeting the deadline? [The Daily Courier invited CWAG President John Zambrano and ADWR Director Herb Guenther to each write a column on this topic. Each column continues onto the second page of the pdf.]
To learn more, view a pdf of CWAG's column in the Daily Courier, published March 2, 2008.