The NIA pool encompasses 360,000 acre-feet of water a year — enough to fill 469 billion Nalgene bottles — and is in the middle of Central Arizona Project’s priority list.

This Arizona water source is about to be wiped out. It may never come back | Opinion The loss of NIA pool water is a canary in the coal mine, as deeper Colorado River cuts could wipe out even more ...

The Arizona Department of Water Resources will have a public hearing on November 22 “to present factual data and receive comments and evidence on whether the Director should designate an active ...

The Arizona Department of Water Resources has to approve both Buckeye and Queen Creek’s deals with the Harquahala Valley Landowners, LLC, which is looking for approval to pump a total of 7.6 ...

Underground mining operations have had to deal with development challenges including drainage, ventilation, illumination and excavation support. Water underground originates from the surface ...

That plan calls for Arizona to get 592,000 fewer acre-feet of water from the river starting next year, compared to 25,000 acre-feet for Nevada and no reductions for California.

Since the 1940s, the underground water table has been reduced by more than 400 feet, losing 5.7 million acre-feet of water, Department of Water Resources Chief Hydrologist Ryan Mitchell told the crowd ...

Those entitled to it — mostly tribes and central Arizona cities — have been able to Band-Aid over the losses with water from other sources, thanks to Arizona’s 2019 Drought Contingency Plan.