Arizona Water Resource May-June 1978

"Senate Bill 1391 of the 1977 Legislative session charges the Groundwater Management Study Commission to 'Make findings and recommendations and prepare legislation to provide for the best development, utilization and conservation of groundwater in the State.' To aid in this mission the Study Commission requested that the Arizona Water Commission undertake a '. . . study of the impacts of future growth on groundwater resources in the major basins of the State, assuming official projections of the Department of Economic Security of population and economic growth and no change in existing law and institutions as they relate to water and its use."