water rights

The seven states can’t agree on who should feel the pain of water cutbacks during dry times. The river is getting smaller due to climate change, and states need to come up with new rules to share its water.

Federal water officials released a set of possible plans for managing the shrinking Colorado River in the future.

The seven states that rely on the Colorado River are deeply divided over how to manage the shrinking water supply in the future.

Gov. Katie Hobbs on Wednesday vetoed five bills changing water laws in Arizona, concluding they would cause more harm than good.

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A private company with land near Cibola, Arizona sold its rights to hundreds of acre feet of water to the town of Queen Creek, just north of Phoenix, 200 miles away. Some locals still question how it happened at all.

Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday defended the decision to strip a Saudi company of its right to lease state land to farm alfalfa for export -- and get the water underneath it free -- but had no answers to what will become of the nearly 3,500 acres after that.

During the Yuma Agriculture Water Conference held Jan. 13, officials from the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation…