A rural Arizona community may soon have a state government fix for its drying wells
… The Arizona Department of Water Resources announced Wednesday [Oct. 23] that, for the first time ever, it was beginning the process of creating an Active Management Area within the boundaries of the Willcox groundwater basin, setting the stage to finally regulate groundwater in the region where dozens of wells have run dry over the past decade. … It’s a significant attempt by the state to rein in the overconsumption of groundwater that has plagued rural Arizona for decades and that, in the face of climate-driven drought, is becoming harder to ignore. AMAs are the one tool the state currently has to deal with water shortages in rural Arizona.