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The Water Agenda is a weekly newsletter covering water policy in Arizona.

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Latest Issues

Gambling on the river

In December, the head hydrologic honchos of the seven states of the Colorado Basin met in Las Vegas for the 2025 Colorado River Water Users Association meeting.

I spent the week at the conference, and asked just about everyone I spoke to a...

5 months ago
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The water rewind

Happy holiday season, Water Agenda readers.

We’re preparing to take some downtime this December, so this is our final email of 2025 — our first-annual Year In Review edition!

Since launching in January, the Water Agenda readership has gro...

6 months ago
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Deal or no deal?

We would be remiss this week if we did not address the 75 million acre-feet elephant in the room: The states of the Colorado River basin have blown past a federal deadline to draft plans for how to share the river’s water amid severe drough...

6 months ago
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The story of a water writer

Hello, readers of the Water Agenda.

This week the federal deadline came and went for the Colorado Basin states to reach an agreement on a shared reduction plan. No agreement was reached.

So the mystery of closed-door interstate negotiatio...

6 months ago
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Digging into groundwater

For two years, the state has blocked developers from building new homes in parts of the Phoenix area that would primarily be serviced by groundwater — a valuable resource in short supply.

But last month, officials cracked open the door for...

7 months ago
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