We urge them to keep fighting with policies or appropriations to ensure Arizona’s farmers and ranchers can continue to invest in water conservation measures rather than regulatory consultants and attorneys.
As Arizonans, we all are keenly aware of the importance of water. But perhaps no one values water more than the family farmers and ranchers growing food and fiber in the arid Arizona climate.
People are also reading… Of critical importance in the law is the role it provides state governments in creating and enforcing additional water protections, as states have greater insight into their own water resources than the federal government. Arizona is an excellent example, as we have shored up our state’s water rule to grant further protections for tributaries and enacted a process for garnering local input to add or remove protected waters.
My family’s farm and ranch, located in the San Pedro River valley, is completely crisscrossed with washes that rarely have any flow at all unless we receive well above average precipitation. Yet because rain runoff is considered ephemeral waters, much of our land would be regulated by the EPA’s new WOTUS rule.
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