Governor Hobbs signs important groundwater legislation benefiting Pinal AMA

HB 2753 strengthens long-term growth and water certainty for Pinal County  (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Pinal Partnership in this issue.) Pinal County, AZ – May 28, 2025 – In a major win for the future of responsible growth in Pinal County, Governor Katie Hobbs signed HB 2753 into law, a critical groundwater bill long supported by members of Pinal Partnership. The bipartisan …

Pinal County Water Future: Challenges, solutions, and the road ahead

By Madelaine Braggs | Rose Law Group Reporter PINAL COUNTY— Against the backdrop of a rare rainy morning in Arizona, water experts gathered Friday to discuss the future of water resources in Pinal County. The panel, hosted by Pinal Partnership, brought together key figures in the region’s water management sector to address the challenges and opportunities shaping Arizona’s water landscape. Moderated …

Maricopa County Supervisor Thomas Galvin allocates board funding to Mesa splash pad improvements

Phoenix, Ariz. (October 23, 2024) – Led by Vice Chairman Thomas Galvin, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has voted in favor of investing $108,000 of Community Solutions Funding into splash pad improvements at A New Leaf’s La Mesita Apartments for low-income individuals and families. La Mesita houses approximately 500 individuals each year who are struggling with housing insecurity, and nearly half are children and youth. “A New Leaf is a fantastic nonprofit …

ADWR proposes new method to provide water security for homes

The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) is creating a new method for securing a 100-year assured water supply for new subdivisions. To build a new subdivision in Arizona, and even to sell a single home in that subdivision, a landowner or water provider must demonstrate that water can be provided to those homes for 100 years. Initially passed in the …

Mines say they’re striving to reduce need for groundwater

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Arizona Sonoran Copper Company and Resolution Copper.) By Pinal Central Arizona has long been proud of its copper, although mines claim a hefty share of precious groundwater. A study conducted for the San Carlos Apache Tribe three years ago estimated Resolution Copper next to Superior will use 250 billion gallons of water over the course of the …

Arizona measure that would speed conversion of thirsty farms to subdivisions is a ‘win-win’ all around, says Rose Law Group Water Law Department Chair David Johnson, who represents private developers and farmers on water issues

By Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star Arizona officials often boast that total water use statewide hasn’t grown since the late 1950s, partly because many farms have been gobbled up by developers to build less thirsty subdivisions. Now, a hotly debated bill moving through the Legislature would accelerate the transfer of a farm’s water rights to new subdivisions. The bill …

David Johnson, chair of Rose Law Group’s water department, comments on: Arizona’s proposed framework for converting wastewater into purified drinking water

By Kate Duffy | Cronkite News, Phoenix Business Journal Recently, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality released a proposed roadmap outlining plans to convert treated wastewater into purified drinking water. “Advanced water purification has the potential to provide a reliable source of purified water that can alleviate water scarcity issues faced in much of Arizona,” said Randall Matas, deputy director of the …

Could depleted groundwater in Arizona be refilled by borrowing a trick from solar power? Rose Law Group Water Department Chair David Johnson weighs in

By Erica Gies | Scientific American Pajaro Valley on the coast of central California has little surface water, so its farmers depend on extracting groundwater to grow leafy greens and berries for the global market. But as in many places around the world, these farmers have been pumping the water out faster than nature can replenish it. In different places, groundwater decline can …

Maricopa County Supervisor and Rose Law Group partner Thomas Galvin talks with PBS Arizona Horizon about solutions to Rio Verde Foothills water issue

WATCH HERE By Arizona Horizon | PBS The battle over water in the Rio Verde area has come to an end after Governor Hobbs signed a law that obligated the City of Scottsdale to provide water to the residents in the community. Several hundred people live in the unincorporated area and were warned repeatedly by the City of Scottsdale that …