Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Our methods: Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state interests

To better understand the scope and scale of foreign ownership, and the role these entities have played in the area’s recent surge of industrial-scale agriculture, AZCIR spent several months analyzing ...
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state investors and corporate farms

Since 2014, an influx of out-of-state interests have drilled nearly 200 agricultural wells in Mohave County’s Hualapai Valley groundwater basin, straining the aquifer and putting residential water ...

State could regulate groundwater use in areas of La Paz County used for alfalfa exports

The Arizona Department of Water Resources has started work on new water management rules in ag areas of La Paz County.
KJZZ

Arizona water agency moves to establish groundwater protection in La Paz County

Arizona’s water agency is taking the first step toward establishing groundwater protections in La Paz County where water ...