In our new #overlooked 📽️series rural communities share the challenges they face due to a lack of management and oversight around how much #groundwater is being extracted from local aquifers.🆕 research shows Arizonans want state leaders to take action to protect vital

Agriculture & Water in the West: A Community Takes Charge youtube.com/watch?v=_bLAkP…

Rural Arizonans are worried about groundwater depletion. SB1221 pretends to create tools for managing rural groundwater, but it puts up obstacles that will make it almost impossible to implement those tools to slow the depletion. Folks in LD19 are fed up, tinyurl.com/53xk99nh

“Rural residents say they are particularly vulnerable. They have fewer sources of💧& less💲💲than big cities like Phoenix for larger reservoirs or new wastewater treatment plants. And they do not have the authority of urban areas to stop unlimited water pumping.”The New York Times

Not quite like last year’s epic spring runoff, but Rogers Lake still looking good #azwater #singlespeed

SB1221 creates a 16-step bureaucratic process that would make it nearly impossible for rural communities to manage their groundwater. Many are calling it a dream bill for big corporations that are already running our wells dry. 🏜️

#vetoSB1221 #AZLeg #AZWater #WaterAwarenessMonth

Importation boosterism helping unify opposition to water leaving places like Missouri. Turns out people don’t want their water taken to fuel unbridled expansion in other places. Who would have thought….

Looks like we’ll need to manage the water we got
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👏💧Thank you Governor Katie Hobbs for your willingness to take substantive action to address the state’s water security challenges. We look forward to collaborating on a bipartisan approach to stabilize #Arizona ’s water supplies and build a resilient future for all Arizonans!

Rural communities have pleaded w/ #azleg for solutions to unchecked groundwater pumping for years - the've been ignored.

But developers and their hired hydrologists are given a special hearing to complain, push for unwinding protections for homeowners🙄
azcentral.com/story/opinion/…

“This bill in its current form seems to enshrine the status quo and will ultimately harm those who it promises to protect. SB1221 is blind to the needs of stakeholders.' Mark Spencer, a 50+ year Arizona resident

WATCH this powerful video that shows why we are in dire need of groundwater laws in rural AZ.

It's past time we protect the water for the people who live there and the small family farms -- NOT the large corporations draining the aquifers dry.

More families, small farms are hurting b/c a few have blocked rural groundwater management legislation for years.

Time for #azleg to move past false promises and distractions - instead pass serious, bipartisan solutions that work for all rural AZ communities and stakeholders.

Rural County Supervisors standing up for all of us who live in rural AZ communities #azwater #azleg azcentral.com/story/opinion/…

👏🏼WAC applauds the Governor’s strong water leadership. Now is the time to face these issues head-on by passing policies that deal with the root cause of rural community water insecurity - unfettered pumping of finite groundwater supplies.” Full statement👉🏼 shorturl.at/gtCL3

Staggering #groundwater stats in new ADWR report for Willcox: every 1 AF in, 3 AF out; six digit deficits in AF per yr across all scenarios; and this - groundwater estimated in storage dropped below the average well depth in the basin 5 yrs ago #azleg
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The Water for Arizona Coalition applauds the Governor's Water Policy Council’s groundwater policy recommendations to provide rural communities in at-risk basins with more options and flexibility to protect groundwater supplies.
Read more: tinyurl.com/water4arizona

Big. Grand Canyon-sized. News: Caught in the Middle, our story map on the future of the Grand Canyon, is a finalist for Storyteller of the Year in the 2023 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition.
Take a journey through the Canyon today! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5f4477…

WAC commends Governor Katie Hobbs’s willingness to take action on rural water issues, despite #azleg dropping the ball on addressing this critical issue for years. This bold water leadership is what rural communities, & all of AZ, need right now.
WAC statement➡️rb.gy/pqyvq

How to say publicly you never read the groundwater bill without saying publicly you never read read the groundwater bill 😂 #azwater

Fun long weekend with my dad, bike touring around the North Kaibab, endless Aspen groves, canyon view points, and an iconic stretch of #ArizonaTrail