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Teravalis, formerly known as Douglas Ranch, is in a legal dispute with the Arizona Department of Water Resources over groundwater rights. Buckeye's master-planned Teravalis, once Douglas Ranch, in ...
Arizona governor Katie Hobbs said this week her administration is terminating state land leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm nearly unfettered access to pump groundwater in the dry ...
The Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute nations have settled their water-rights claims with the state of Arizona. Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement with Arizona. It ...
The creek started drying up in 2013 as a result of increased groundwater pumping by the Pinto Valley Mine, despite the Forest Service holding instream flow rights. As of 2022, mining continues while much of Pinto Creek remains dry year-round. Groundwater repletion is expected to take at least 100 years. [2]
The Central Arizona Project pumps water from the Colorado River into central and Southern Arizona. It was powered by the Navajo Generating Station from 1968 to 2019. Water rights to the Colorado River are governed by the 1922 Colorado River Compact that divides the water among western states. Indigenous Nations were left out of this agreement ...
Privately owned groundwater may allow unlimited production or limited production rights based on land ownership or liability rules. It is possible to regulate the spacing of wells and groundwater production under any of these systems, but the methods, effectiveness and results of that regulation varies greatly from one system to the next ...
In Arizona, groundwater has been regulated in urban areas since 1980, but pumping remains unregulated in rural farming areas, where water levels have been dropping.
The aquifer is the main source of potable groundwater for the Navajo and Hopi tribes, who use the water for farming and livestock as well as drinking and other domestic uses. The tribes alleged that the pumping of water by Peabody Energy caused a severe decline in the number of springs and reduced their access to potable water. [ 4 ]