“I felt like litigation was more likely until this Lower Basin states agreement got proposed, and I feel like it’s cooled the temperature quite a bit on the litigation front,” said Riley Snow, the head of Rose Law Group’s water law department. By Reagan Priest | Arizona Capitol Times The federal government will adopt Arizona’s preferred plan for Colorado River reductions …
By AZ Family Arizona’s top elected officials are coming together to blast a federal plan to manage the Colorado River. City leaders, business groups, and federal representatives are pushing back hard after the federal government released a sweeping plan Friday that could force the state to absorb a disproportionate share of Colorado River water cuts. The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spares Colorado, Utah, New …
By Reagan Priest | Yellow Sheet Water experts say not all hope is lost for a better deal on the Colorado River, despite discouraging news from the federal government last week. The Bureau of Reclamation released its final draft environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the Colorado River on Friday, outlining a “framework” for river operations that includes both the Lower Basin proposal and a …
By The Associated Press The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s 10-year plan spares four other states from facing mandatory cuts for now. It’s meant to be flexible, allowing deeper cuts in drier times while giving the states more time to collectively agree on how to manage the dwindling resource that flows through dams to produce hydropower. The Lower Basin states of …
“Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney overturned state water department rules April 21 that gave legal backing for Gov. Katie Hobbs’ 2023 moratorium on new certificates of assured water supply, which are required for subdivisions in cities like Buckeye and Queen Creek.” Making its case: “The Home Builders Association of Central Arizona… sued in 2025, saying the Department of Water …
By AZ Big Media At the 2026 AZRE Forum at The Camby in Phoenix, Anita Verma-Lallian, founder and CEO of Arizona Land Consulting, delivered a clear message to the state’s real estate leaders: the rules of development in Arizona have fundamentally changed. For decades, success in land development was driven by location, price and timing. Today, Verma-Lallian says, those factors …
By AZ Big Media At the 2026 AZRE Forum at The Camby in Phoenix, Anita Verma-Lallian, founder and CEO of Arizona Land Consulting, delivered a clear message to the state’s real estate leaders: the rules of development in Arizona have fundamentally changed. For decades, success in land development was driven by location, price and timing. Today, Verma-Lallian says, those factors …
By AZ Big Media Arizona Water Company (AWC) announced it has officially received its Designation of Assured Water Supply (Designation) in a signing ceremony with Governor Katie Hobbs, marking an historic milestone in providing water security for the communities of Coolidge, Casa Grande and the surrounding Pinal County areas. AWC’s Designation affirms the utility has met rigorous state standards for …
Photo via the City of Queen Creek “Water costs will continue to rise. Municipalities need the flexibility to respond to rising costs driven by our diminishing supplies. This bill, if passed, will force cities to delay water projects (and costs). Those projects will still need to be completed at some point; we will just end up paying more for them down …
Photo by Rose Law Group Reporter (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Rohit K. Tripathi.) Farms to sprout housing? “[L]andowners want to build new development in groundwater-restricted areas of Pinal and Maricopa counties by taking farmland out of production and acquiring water credits for it.” However, the “areas are currently under building moratoriums.” But: “Arizona’s new ‘ag-to-urban’ program offers an alternative” — “landowners …
