Willcox Basin News Today

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.

The Gila Bend Basin is suffering some of the worst declines in groundwater levels in the state, Arizona water officials say.

For too long overdraft of the groundwater basins has been ignored. This is especially true in the Willcox Basin, where we have been in serious overdraft since well before 1990.

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

A new state report showing massive over-drafting in five rural groundwater basins doesn’t discuss subsidence, the settling of the ground that occurs when over-pumping hollows out an aquifer and the

A new state report showing massive over-drafting in five rural groundwater basins doesn’t discuss subsidence, the settling of the ground that occurs when over-pumping hollows out an aquifer and the

As Arizona groundwater regulation talks emerge, the surge of well applications to follow risks cutting off the supply to nearby farms, homes.