Resources
Articles & Reports:
AP News
US West Prepares for Possible 1st Water Shortage Declaration, by Sam Metz, Published April 19th, 2021
Arizona Department of Water Resources
Land Subsidence in the Willcox Basin, Story Map
https://azwater.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=c5758018997c402b863c11e36727ed31
Statewide Groundwater Level Changes in Arizona, Water Years 2017 to 2018, 2008 to 2018, and 1998 to 2018, published December 2020
Water Level Conditions in The Upper San Pedro Basin, Arizona, 2007-2019, published Feb 2021
https://new.azwater.gov/sites/default/files/WLCMS10_Upper_San_Pedro.pdf
Arizona Geology
U.S. 191 in Cochise County Damaged by Extensive Ground Fractures, Published July 18th, 2021
https://blog.azgs.arizona.edu/blog/2021-07/us-191-cochise-county-damaged-extensive-ground-fractures
Arizona State University
Rural Water in Arizona https://azwaterblueprint.asu.edu/feature/rural-water-arizona
Arizona Public Media
For Sale in Cochise County: 'You Don't Buy Land; You Buy Water' by Zachary Ziegler, published Jan 27th, 2016
Audubon Arizona
Understanding Arizona's Groundwater
AZ Central
A 'hidden crisis': Millions of Groundwater Wells are at Risk of Running Dry, Scientists Find, by Ian James, Published April 28th. 2021
Attempts to Protect Arizona's Groundwater and Rivers Meet Legislative Resistance, by Ian James, Published March 10th, 2021
Bills That Would Strengthen Rural Groundwater Rules Die in Arizona Legislature, by Ian James, Published Feb. 26th, 2020
In Southeastern Arizona, Farms Drill a Half-Mile Deep While Families Pay the Price, by Ian James and Rob O'Dell, Published December 5th, 2019
'Our Own Survival is at Stake': Arizona is Using Up Its Groundwater, Researchers Warn, by Ian James, published May 13, 2021
These 7 Industrial Farm Operations Are Draining Arizona’s Aquifers, and No One Knows Exactly How Much They’re Taking, Rob O’dell and Ian James, Published Dec. 5th, 2019
https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2019/12/05/biggest-water-users-arizona-farms-keep-drilling-deeper/3937582002/
Blue Stream Prairie
Arizona Republic: Riverview LLP May Be Largest AZ Corporate Farmer, Farm With Most Wells, by Sally Jo Sorensen, Published December 8th, 2019
Riverview Dairy Drawing Down Arizona's Aquifers, by Sally Jo Sorensen, Published September 24th, 2019
Eco Watch
Iowa's Farmers- and American Eaters- Need a National Discussion on Transforming US Agriculture, Published October 16th, 2019
Forests News
Linking Trees and Water, by Kate Evans, Published March 22nd, 2017
The Guardian
Meet Arizona's Water One-Percenters: In Phoenix, Two Cities Are Emerging: One is Water-Rich, The Other Water-Poor by Elizabeth Wang Whitman, published April 5th, 2021
Mega-dairies, disappearing wells, and Arizona's deepening water crisis, by Tony Davis, Published June 2nd, 2021
Grist
U.S. Southwest, already parched, sees 'virtual water' drain abroad, by Diana Kruzman, published June 5, 2021
Herald Review
AZ Supreme Court Sides With Developers on Water Rights; Ruling Gives Castle & Cooke Project Go-Ahead, by Howard Fischer, published August 9th, 2019
Former Governor Babbitt Speaks on County Water Issues, by Shar Porier, Published November 29th, 2019
Our View: Willcox is Running Out of Time, Published October 16th, 2020
Study: Continued Groundwater Decline in Willcox Basin, by Shar Porier, Published December 1, 2018
Sunsites Resident Calls for Action on Water Rights, by Carol Broeder, Published September 3, 2014
That Sinking Feeling: Fissures, Land Subsidence Create Problems in Sulphur Springs Valley, by Shar Porier, Published October 13, 2020
Wells in Eastern Part of County Won’t Get Funding, by Shar Porier, Published November 9, 2018
NBC News
Draining Arizona: Residents Say Corporate Mega-Farms Are Drying Up Their Wells by Andrew Stern, Published Sept. 17th, 2019
New York Times
The Water Wars of Arizona, by Noah Gallagher Shannon, Published July 19th, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-of-arizona.html
PBS
Can Beer Help save an Arizona River? By Ivette Feliciano, Connie Kargbo, & Sam Weber, Published Feb 16th, 2020
Phys Org
Geoscientists Find That Shallow Wastewater Injection Drives Deep Earthquakes in Texas
Phoenix New Times
The War on Mesquite: Collateral Damage in Howard Buffett's Border Crusade, by Beau Hodai, Published Oct 12th, 2019
Star Tribune
Milking Cows on an Industrial Scale Arrives in Western Minnesota, and Some Farmers Shudder
Report Your Well Running Dry/Levels:
Arizona Department of Water Resources: https://www.azwater.gov/eforms/forms/drywell/drywellrpt.aspx
Arizona Republic: https://arizona-republic.forms.fm/declining-groundwater-and-dry-wells/forms/7484
Additional Resources:
Arizona Department of Water Resources: https://new.azwater.gov/
Arizona Department of Water Resources Registry of Wells in Arizona (Wells 55 Map): https://gisweb3.azwater.gov/WellReg
Arizona State University Kyl Center Groundwater Level Changes in Arizona Sub-basins (tool to show groundwater level changes across the state's sub-basins for 1-year (2017-18), 10-year (2008-18) and 20-year (1998-2018) time periods): https://asu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=40ab99d10a224d6c83818fb0e1c153e0
Arizona State University Kyl Center Arizona Water Blueprint (tool to find out about the state’s water resources and policies and your community’s water resilience): https://asu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b84f6d906be94505b25d68d6af3b02ca
Center for Biological Diversity: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/
Groundwater: To enact a law for the common good: Documentary about the 1980 Groundwater Management Act Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJbqCE9sXU4
Innovations in American Government Award, Arizona Groundwater Code, 1986: https://ash.harvard.edu/news/groundwater-management-code
Legiscan, Water Bills for AZ: https://legiscan.com/gaits/search?state=AZ&keyword=Water
Sierra Club, Arizona: https://www.sierraclub.org/arizona
Sunsites Community Organization: https://www.sunsitesaz.org/
Upper San Pedro Partnership: https://uppersanpedropartnership.org/
Water Resources Research: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19447973