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A former director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, Ferris helped draw up the state’s 1980 Groundwater Management Act that protects aquifers in urban areas like Phoenix but not in ...
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A proposal to create a powerful Arizona water authority raises key questions about who gets water and how we grow. It's time to address them. 4 utterly important water questions for Arizona that ...
The Project was broken down in units A, B, C and D. Construction began on September 27, 1920 with the Mesa Supply Canal for unit B and in May 1922, the unit's pumping station was also complete. Unit B irrigated as much as 3,000 acres (12 km 2 ) but development of the other three units never materialized.
The Water Resources Development Act of 1996 (WRDA 1996) is part of Pub. L. 104–303 (text), was enacted by Congress of the United States on October 12, 1996. [1] Most of the provisions of WRDA 1996 are administered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers .
Mark Wilmer Pumping Plant. The CAP delivers Colorado River water, either directly or by exchange, into central and Southern Arizona.The project was envisioned to provide water to nearly one million acres (405,000 hectares) of irrigated agricultural land areas in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties, as well as municipal water for several Arizona communities, including the metropolitan areas of ...
Kearns pointed to a statement from Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who said Wednesday, “We are fighting a wildfire with urban water systems ...
Public water supply regulation in New York predates the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act by decades. As in California, New York has over the years, in accordance with 40CFR142, modified its sanitary code to implement the rules in the federal code. Occasionally, the Public Health Law is also amended to regulate water supply, e.g. Article 11 of ...