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'Our own survival is at stake': Arizona is using up its groundwater, researchers warn


Our own survival is at stake : Arizona is using up its groundwater, researchers warn
Ian James, Arizona Republic
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The Central Arizona Project Canal runs through Scottsdale, Ariz., carrying Colorado River water.
In 1980, Arizona began regulating groundwater in the state’s largest cities and suburbs under a landmark law that called for most of these areas to achieve an overarching goal by 2025: a long-term balance between the amount of water pumped from the ground and the amount seeping back underground to replenish aquifers. 
Forty-one years later, the state’s latest data shows most of the areas where groundwater is managed remain far from achieving a long-term balance, a goal known as “safe yield.” Groundwater is still overpumped in most of the state’s “active-management areas,” or AMAs. And in many places, aquifer levels continue to decline. ....

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