2022-08-06 Legislators fail to protect our groundwater and rivers

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Our state legislators continue to fail to protect our water in our aquifers and rivers.

Solutions do exist. We need regional cooperation to protect a shared water resource. A regional water conservation incentive program could reduce water use by rural wells and private water systems and improve existing weak conservation programs in Prescott Valley and Chino Valley. Also, a regional stormwater recovery and recharge program will reduce the overdraft.

To learn more, view a pdf of CWAG's column in the Daily Courier, published August 6, 2022.