Active Management Area

League of Women Voters of Arizona's Earth Day: Water Management in Arizona

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AMA Grant Application Workshop (12.10.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on December 12, 2019 - 9:00am

Non AMA Groundwater Committee Meeting (11.14.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on November 27, 2019 - 11:29am

Statewide AMA Director Einav Henenson Discuss Drought on Arizona Horizon

Submitted by [email protected] on June 27, 2019 - 3:25pm

Interactive tool for searching groundwater-rights information now live on ADWR website

The latest interactive tool added to the Arizona Department of Water Resources web site – the Grandfathered Right Web Map system – is now up and running.

The “GFR” system, as it is known, is an interactive map intended for use by owners and lessees of irrigation grandfathered groundwater rights and of “Type 1” non-irrigation GFRs.

Published:March 14, 2019

Know your rights: ADWR to roll out new “interactive” groundwater-rights web map system

The process of providing property owners with detailed information about their groundwater rights has played out almost unchanged for decades. It has been slow. And cumbersome. And inconvenient to people holding a right to use groundwater.

That is now changing. In mid-January, the Arizona Department of Water Resources’ website will feature a new “interactive” search map that – for the first time – will allow the public to conveniently access geographical and other data about their groundwater rights.

Published:January 4, 2019

ADWR’s “Basic Data Unit” teams prepare for groundwater hydrology “sweeps” season

It is high season once again for one of ADWR’s most important duties – collecting data on groundwater levels by the department’s Basic Data Unit.

The staff of the “BD Unit,” as it is known, will be fanning out across the State to measure water levels in wells, measure discharge from pumping wells and collect well inventories.

Published:October 4, 2018

A tough haul: Water woes of north Valley homeowners slowly lumber toward resolution

Local AquiferThe long, complex effort by federal, municipal and county officials, as well as a private water company, to provide a permanent source of hauled water to residents of New River and Desert Hills in the north Valley appears to be approaching its conclusio

Published:May 17, 2018

Hydrogeologic reality tops the list for causes of New River-area water woes

In the foothills regions north of Phoenix, all the ingredients for a recipe of chronic water-woes have been whipping together in recent years.

Well Levels Are Dropping

Published:September 22, 2017

Arizona Golf Industry Rebounds

A University of Arizona study of the golf industry in Arizona has found that golf – with an economic impact of $3.9 billion in 2014 -- has re-established its footing as an important driver of the state’s economy following the tumult of the 2009-10 economic downturn.

Published:December 28, 2016