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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
Groundwater supplies are declining rapidly in five farming-dominated basins across Arizona where pumping isn't regulated, a new state study shows.
In 2022, state legislation was passed that requires the Arizona Department of Water Resources to complete Supply and Demand reports as an assessment of each groundwater basin in the State
The proposal from Gov. Katie Hobbs' panel is stricter than those tried and failed in past Arizona Legislatures. But both sides agree the water problem is urgent.
A thirsty megafarm is driving a libertarian enclave in rural Arizona to a radical solution: government regulation of its groundwater.