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Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
This isn't the first time Arizona has had issues with water, as seen in the Arizona v. California Supreme Court case in 1952 that disputed water use from the Colorado River's lower basin. The use of energy and water go hand in hand as a large portion of the state's available energy is used for irrigation with Arizona being a desert state. [1 ...
Alfalfa hay is also the number one crop of Arizona. In 2008, Arizona's hay crop sold for $288 million. [13] Other than hay, the southwestern states do produce a good amount of crops which grow well in warm climates. Arizona's crops, excluding hay, make about $1.9 billion per year.
Rural Arizona needs the power to manage our own groundwater, county supervisors say, not let those with the deepest wells pump everyone else dry. Rural Arizona is facing a water crisis. Yet for 3 ...
Two efforts to regulate groundwater use in Arizona's rural communities could have long-ranging consequences, depending on what happens next.
Amid worsening water shortages in the Southwest, investors are seeking big profits by buying farms and moving water to fast-growing cities. Investors are buying up rural Arizona farmland to sell ...
Chinle (Navajo: Chíńlį́) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The name in Navajo means ' flowing out ' and is a reference to the location where the water flows out of the Canyon de Chelly. [3] The population was 4,518 at the 2010 census. [4]
Mark Wilmer Pumping Plant. The CAP delivers Colorado River water, either directly or by exchange, into central and Southern Arizona.The project was envisioned to provide water to nearly one million acres (405,000 hectares) of irrigated agricultural land areas in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties, as well as municipal water for several Arizona communities, including the metropolitan areas of ...