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Arizona Water Banking Authority (Arizona Revised Statutes: Title 45 Waters; Chapter 14)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Arizona
Document type
Legislation
Date
2019
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Institution Governance Surface water Water abstraction Freshwater resources management Water supply Waterworks Indigenous peoples Industrial water use
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter of the Arizona Revised Statutes provides for the Arizona Water Banking Authority. The chapter declares that the public policy and general purposes of this chapter are to increase utilization of Arizona's Colorado river entitlement that was confirmed to Arizona by the United States supreme court in article ii(b)(1), (2) and (6) of the decree entered at Arizona v. California, 376 U.S. 340 (1964), and that would otherwise be unused in Arizona, by delivering that water into this state through the central Arizona project aqueducts; store water brought into this state through the central Arizona project to protect Arizona municipal and industrial water users against future water shortages on the Colorado river and disruptions of operation of the central Arizona project; store water brought into this state through the central Arizona project to fulfill the water management objectives of this state set forth in chapter 2 of this title; provide the opportunity for storing water brought into this state through the central Arizona project to be available to implement the settlement of water right claims by Indian communities within Arizona; provide the opportunity to authorized agencies in the states of California and Nevada to store otherwise unused Colorado river water in Arizona to assist those states in meeting future water needs; and provide the opportunity to facilitate the storage of water and stored water lending arrangements by entities in Arizona that may not have the opportunities or resources needed to store water.END_STATUTE

Full text
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Website
www.azleg.gov