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Senate President Fann rides out highs, lows of Covid pandemic, protests, critical bills
Senate President Karen Fann said it has been a huge honor serving as president in the Senate. She is only the second female Senate president in Arizona. Fann said some highlights of the past session for her include lawmakers passing a water bill, as well as a bipartisan budget and a K-12 base funding increase.
House Speaker Bowers reflects on session’s successes, work to come
Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers said it was a "blessing" to be forced to have to work with Democrats on bills involving education, water and other issues in the past legislative session.
Ducey signs bill to address dwindling water supply
Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation Wednesday to provide $1.2 billion to fund grandiose projects to find new water for Arizona and smaller ones to conserve what the state already has.
Billion-dollar water authority expansion plan passes Legislature
A bipartisan water plan to expand the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority passed through the Legislature on Friday evening after months of grueling negotiation.
Lawmakers support revamping water agency amid drought
Lawmakers appear eager to deliver something that resembles Gov. Doug Ducey’s vision to spend $1 billion on water projects but they are rejecting his proposal for a new agency.
Lawmakers aim to expand WIFA, not create new water agency
The Legislature is preparing to release this year’s water budget likely expanding WIFA and not – as previously suggested – creating a new agency.
It’s time for Legislature to protect water for all Arizonans
It’s time for state leaders to entrust rural groundwater management to the rural Arizonans whose lives and livelihoods depend on it.
US to hold back Lake Powell water to protect hydropower
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. officials announced what they called extraordinary steps on Tuesday to keep hundreds of billions of gallons of water stored in a reservoir on the... […]
Feds weigh emergency water action in West
FLAGSTAFF — Federal officials say it may be necessary to reduce water deliveries to users on the Colorado River to prevent the shutdown of a huge dam that supplies hydropower... […]
Special session on water likely, could be tricky
The Legislature could go into special session soon, with the most likely topic to be legislation implementing Gov. Doug Ducey’s plan to create an Arizona Water Authority to invest in... […]
Draft bill of major water plan surfaces
Legislators are passing around a draft bill that would deliver Gov. Doug Ducey’s promised Arizona Water Authority – a new state agency charged with hunting down new water sources and... […]
Despite one plant’s failure, desalination works
Old technology, cost inefficiencies, politics and several existing water solutions have made the existing Yuma desalination plant obsolete. But managers of the plant and those working on other water projects... […]
