Arizona’s top water official presented new long-term projections Friday showing that Pinal County doesn’t have enough groundwater to ... She showed a map with large areas marked in yellow ...

which supplies nearly all of Arizona's milk. But passing the Groundwater Management Act, monumental as it was, came with trade-offs. It became clear that Pinal County could never meet the act’s ...

New research from Arizona State University professors shows the Lower Colorado River Basin has lost as much groundwater as is contained in Lake Mead over the past 20 years.

PHOENIX — With a megadrought across the west, Arizona is hardly ... Colorado River water to Phoenix, Pinal County, and Tucson. After four attempts, the Groundwater Management Act of 1980 was ...

Arizona’s water ... allowing groundwater to be depleted by up to 1,000 feet in the Phoenix and Tucson areas and 1,100 feet in Pinal County if the aquifer is replenished by renewable supplies ...

Made public last week, the Arizona ... Pima County outside Tucson, due to inadequate groundwater supplies. The department had already issued a similar finding in 2019 for rapidly growing Pinal ...

The map, which was obtained ... for annexation. Mesa, Arizona’s third largest city with 400,000 people, is in Maricopa County, and would spread into Pinal County if it annexed the land.