2019 Year in Review: Signing Colorado River agreement top water story for AZ
Water news in Arizona and the Southwest in 2019 certainly wasn’t limited entirely to the big signing of the Colorado River system-wide Drought Contingency Plan in May. But an event triggered by Arizona legislation, which was hailed by Governor Ducey as “the most significant water legislation passed in nearly 40 years,” certainly dominated headlines for the early part of 2019. On January 31, 2019, the Arizona Legislature passed – and Governor Ducey signed — a measure allowing Arizona to join six other western states and the federal government in signing onto the DCP, an inter-state water agreement designed to help stabilize the…