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The Role of Science in Groundwater Management in Arizona
Pages 69-75

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From page 69...
... The state's surface and groundwater supplies remain essentially unchanged, however, the Central Arizona Project provided a significant increase in access to Colorado River water during this time period. This increase is central to the implementation of Arizona's groundwater management program, a major provision of which is the substitution of renewable supplies for mined groundwater.
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From page 70...
... In addition to the Assured Water Supply Program, the ADWR administers an extensive conservation program for municipal, industrial and agricultural water uses. Starting in 1980 and each succeeding decade through 2025, per capita or per acre water use is reduced in a continuous effort to achieve Safe Yield in the five AMAs by 2025.
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From page 71...
... Groundwater Modeling Because of the tension between growth and limited water supplies, there is a need for increasingly sophisticated numeric models such as "Modflow" produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to analyze the relationships between surface water and groundwater in basins where rapid growth is occurring.
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From page 72...
... Improving Decision-making in Water Management Water managers throughout the state are continually seeking to improve the scientific input to improve real-time water management decision-making and minimize the environmental impacts of water operations. In particular, information generated from stream-gauges, well monitoring, and snow pack evaluation at the higher elevations is very useful to water managers throughout the Colorado River watershed.
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From page 73...
... In recent months several meetings have been held between researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Arizona and water managers from public and private water agencies. These meetings were arranged due to a growing recognition that the research produced at the state's universities has little value to real world water managers.
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From page 74...
... • A disconnect exists in Arizona between the law and hydrology as it relates to recharge. • Develop future scenarios of water supply-demand given uncertain climatological conditions; demographic/urbanization trends; and institutional arrangements.
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From page 75...
... References Colorado River Water Users Association.
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