Issues, Challenges and Plans for 2026
1. Regional Cooperation
2. Weak Conservation in Prescott Active Management Area
3. Overdraft in Prescott Active Management Area
4. Water Quality Concerns (Arsenic, PFAS)
5. ~15,000 New Homes Approved. Each one demands water.
6. High Landscape Water Use
7. Base Flow Decline in Upper Verde River
8. Proposed Big Chino Pipeline
9. Proposed Verde River Base Flow Protection Act.
10. Proposed Upper Verde River Wild and Scenic River
11. Environment Day at the Capitol: Wed. Feb. 11 in Phoenix
12. Legally Authorized "Paper Water" allows potential doubling of population
13. AZ Legislative History facilitates growth with risk to water supply & rivers
14. Current AZ legislature blocks bills that would help