by Melissa | Feb 26, 2019 | Environment, Government
Committee kills bill to fund groundwater for Pinal County farms by Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services A House panel quashed a bid Monday by Pinal County farmers to get the state funds they say they need to produce the extra water needed for the drought...
by Melissa | Feb 25, 2019 | Development, Environment, Government
Arizona Drought Contingency Plan bridge to a dryer future by Callan Smith | Rose Law Group Reporter Snow was falling in Gold Canyon when an eager crowd gathered to listen to panelists talk about water and the Drought Contingency Plan (DCP) affecting Pinal County, at...
by Melissa | Feb 22, 2019 | Economy, Environment
One family makes sense of losing its Colorado River water Pinal County farmers suffer more drastic cuts than cities in Arizona’s tenuous drought plan. by Tony Davis | High Country News The furrows in a 60-acre patch of dirt on Rodney and Tiffany Shedd’s Arizona farm...
by Melissa | Feb 20, 2019 | Environment, Government
Showdown over water bill averted, clearing way for Arizona to finish Colorado River deal by Ian James | Arizona Republic Proposed water legislation that might have upended Arizona’s Colorado River drought plan was set aside by a leading Republican lawmaker following a...
by Melissa | Feb 15, 2019 | Environment, Government, Maricopa
Global CEO talks about water cutbacks in Drought Contingency Plan by Jim Headley | inMaricopa It’s a little complicated. It’s a little chaotic right now, but it’s not a crisis.” Ron Fleming, Global Water Resources president and CEO, addressed the members of the...
by Melissa | Feb 15, 2019 | Environment, Government, GRIC
GRIC pulls back on drought plan by Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services A major player in the drought contingency plan on Thursday yanked its scheduled ratification of its part of the deal, potentially upending any chance of the state meeting the March 4 deadline...