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“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 Tucson's 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.