Arizona Water Policy

Arizona Water Policy

Author: Bonnie G. Colby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1136525432

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The central challenge for Arizona and many other arid regions in the world is keeping a sustainable water supply in the face of rapid population growth and other competing demands. This book highlights new approaches that Arizona has pioneered for managing its water needs. The state has burgeoning urban areas, large agricultural regions, water dependent habitats for endangered fish and wildlife, and a growing demand for water-based recreation. A multi-year drought and climate-related variability in water supply complicate the intense competition for water. Written by well-known Arizona water experts, the essays in this book address these issues from academic, professional, and policy perspectives that include economics, climatology, law, and engineering. Among the innovations explored in the book is Arizona‘s Groundwater Management Act. Arizona is not alone in its challenges. As one of the seven states in the Colorado River Basin that depend heavily on the river, Arizona must cooperate, and sometimes compete, with other state, tribal, and federal governments. One institution that furthers regional cooperation is the water bank, which encourages groundwater recharge of surplus surface water during wet years so that the water remains available during dry years. The Groundwater Management Act imposes conservation requirements and establishes planning and investment programs in renewable water supplies. The essays in Arizona Water Policy are accessible to a broad policy-oriented and nonacademic readership. The book explores Arizona‘s water management and extracts lessons that are important for arid and semi-arid areas worldwide.


Arizona Water Atlas: Southeastern Arizona planning area (14 groundwater basins)

Arizona Water Atlas: Southeastern Arizona planning area (14 groundwater basins)

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13:

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The primary objectives of the Atlas are to present an overview of water supply and demand conditions [as has not been available on a statewide basis for over ten years], to provide water resource information for planning and resource development purposes and to help identify the needs of communities throughout Arizona, particularly those outside the AMAs [the five active management areas].


Arizona Water Atlas: Central highlands planning area (5 groundwater basins)

Arizona Water Atlas: Central highlands planning area (5 groundwater basins)

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 388

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The primary objectives of the Atlas are to present an overview of water supply and demand conditions [as has not been available on a statewide basis for over ten years], to provide water resource information for planning and resource development purposes and to help identify the needs of communities throughout Arizona, particularly those outside the AMAs [the five active management areas].


Arizona Water Atlas: Upper Colorado River planning area (9 groundwater basins)

Arizona Water Atlas: Upper Colorado River planning area (9 groundwater basins)

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 468

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The primary objectives of the Atlas are to present an overview of water supply and demand conditions [as has not been available on a statewide basis for over ten years], to provide water resource information for planning and resource development purposes and to help identify the needs of communities throughout Arizona, particularly those outside the AMAs [the five active management areas].


Arizona Water Atlas: Introduction

Arizona Water Atlas: Introduction

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 140

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The primary objectives of the Atlas are to present an overview of water supply and demand conditions [as has not been available on a statewide basis for over ten years], to provide water resource information for planning and resource development purposes and to help identify the needs of communities throughout Arizona, particularly those outside the AMAs [the five active management areas].


Draft Uinta-southwestern Utah

Draft Uinta-southwestern Utah

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Published: 1980

Total Pages: 352

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Assesses the environmental consequences of five alternative levels of coal development, including development of the Hollberg Preference Right Lease Application (PRLA) area and an exchange of the Utah Power and Light Company (UP&L) PRLA lands for coal leases on the Wasatch Plateau.