In Arizona's Willcox Basin, just over an hour east of Tucson, fissures are tearing through the earth, wells are running dry, ...

Groundwater extraction for irrigation is leading to rapid subsidence, though effective state management could help slow the ...

In Arizona’s Willcox Basin, just over an hour east of Tucson, fissures are tearing through the earth, wells are running dry, ...

Arizona's water authority wants to place groundwater rules in a basin where Saudi-owned Fondomonte grows thousands of acres of alfalfa for export.

Groundwater supplies are declining rapidly in five farming-dominated basins across Arizona where pumping isn’t regulated, including in Cochise County southeast of Tucson, a new state study shows. The ...

Arizona has 51 groundwater basins. Yet new studies estimate that agriculture in just five of them used nearly 420,000 acre-feet of water in 2022. That’s roughly the amount of water that Phoenix and ...

Falling water levels are a threat to the aquifer in an agricultural region of western Arizona dominated by Saudi-owned farming conglomerate Fondomonte, state regulators told residents in a public ...