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This Article is intended to foster the necessary understanding of current laws and policies and to offer some modest recommendations for how the state might proceed down the path towards…

The 1980 Arizona Groundwater Management Act is widely celebrated as a progressive piece of legislation that attempted to halt excessive groundwater pumping. A key component of the Act was its…

This Article examines the current and projected water budgets in the two Active Management Areas (“AMAs”), the reasons why safe yield is not being met, the consequences of failing to…

The purpose of this Article is to examine the constitutionality of Arizona’s Groundwater Management Code and other statutes that support Arizona’s Groundwater Management in its current form. As described more…

This article traces the expansive and expensive contours of the Gila River Adjudication (the Adjudication) begun in 1974 to remedy depletions of the Verde River, a tributary of the Salt…

This Article examines the integral role of CAP supplies in the settlement of Indian reserved water rights claims in Arizona thus far, then explores what alternatives remain for future Indian…