The Gila Bend groundwater basin about 125 miles northwest of Tucson has one of the fastest-falling aquifers known on the planet, a new study shows. The aquifer in the Gila Bend Basin — where pumping ...
The Arizona Department of Water Resources monitors groundwater levels to track long-term water trends. Crews conduct "basin ...
Falling water levels are a threat to the aquifer in an agricultural region of western Arizona dominated by Saudi-owned farming conglomerate Fondomonte, state regulators told residents in a public ...
Almost 40 percent of Arizona’s water supply comes from an ancient source — aquifers deep underground that collected water over millions of years. Those aquifers aren’t considered a renewable source by ...
Bright pink blobs punctuate every corner of the state in a map produced by the Arizona Department of Water Resources. They show groundwater aquifers falling, often rapidly, in many if not most rural ...
A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona's McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock's family has used groundwater to grow ...
WENDEN — Attorney General Kris Mayes told La Paz County residents she’s considering a lawsuit to stop corporate farms from overpumping groundwater there and in Cochise County. Her investigators are ...
Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM) has secured the second-last permit to begin constructing its Copper World project in Arizona. The Aquifer Protection Permit, granted by the Arizona Department of ...
It’s been nearly a decade since Steven Kisiel’s well at his home in Wilcox, Arizona, ran dry. In the years since, his neighbors—along with other rural Arizonans across the state—have encountered the ...