Active Management Area News Today

“If the water goes, our homes aren’t worth anything," one resident told officials, her voice shaking. "And I just don’t understand how the state can even allow it.”

Even during chilly January afternoons, tumbleweeds roll across the Sonoran Desert, landing just shy of the metal gate marking Oliver Anderson’s farm.

For Star subscribers: The Gila Bend Basin has one of the fastest-falling aquifers known on the planet, a new study shows. But the study gives high marks to Tucsons replenishment

GOP-led Senate committee OKS bills to establish rural groundwater management setup favored by many farming interest groups but opposed by many environmentalists and some rural community leaders.

Farm Bureau president explains recent decision to leave state water council.

The Arizona Department of Water Resources kicked off an informal process to establish a new groundwater protection area in Gila Bend.

The Arizona Department of Water Resources is considering establishing a new groundwater management area for the first time since 1980.The proposal for a new Active Management Area in Gila Bend would mark the first AMA created by the state government since the passage of the Groundwater Management Act more than four decades ago. 

A common scenario across Arizona: When local conversations about groundwater regulation take place, a surge of well applications follows.

In 2022, when the southeastern Arizona community of Willcox confronted state regulations that would’ve halted new groundwater irrigation in the largely agricultural area, voters and special interest groups mobilized to

In 2022, when the southeastern Arizona community of Willcox confronted state regulations that would’ve halted new groundwater irrigation in the largely agricultural area, voters and special interest groups mobilized to