September, 2001
Arizona Water Resources,
Joe Gelt
ed.,
vol.
10,
no.
2,
12
pp.,
Water Resources Research Center,
Tucson, AZ,
September, 2001
Eany in the Governor's Water Management Commission's review of the Arizona Groundwater Management Act it was noted that the "bucket had holes in it." This was the metaphor ofchoice adopted by participants who believed that various legal exemptions in the GMA allowed unrestricted groundwater pumping. They said such exempted pumping undermined the GMA goals of the Active Management Areas, particularly safe yield in the Phoenix, Tucson and Prescott AMAs.