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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.”
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